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Neddylation Facilitates the Antiviral Response in Zebrafish

Authors
Yu, G., Liu, X., Tang, J., Xu, C., Ouyang, G., Xiao, W.
ID
ZDB-PUB-190712-17
Date
2019
Source
Frontiers in immunology   10: 1432 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Ouyang, Gang, Xiao, Wuhan, Yu, Guangqing
Keywords
MLN4924, SVCV, antiviral response, innate immunity, nedd8, neddylation, zebrafish
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Cyclopentanes/pharmacology
  • Fish Diseases/immunology*
  • Fish Diseases/pathology
  • NEDD8 Protein/immunology*
  • Pyrimidines/pharmacology
  • Rhabdoviridae/immunology*
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections/immunology*
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections/pathology
  • Rhabdoviridae Infections/veterinary
  • Signal Transduction/drug effects
  • Signal Transduction/immunology*
  • Ubiquitination/drug effects
  • Ubiquitination/immunology*
  • Zebrafish*/immunology
  • Zebrafish*/virology
  • Zebrafish Proteins/immunology*
PubMed
31293590 Full text @ Front Immunol
Abstract
Neddylation is a type of post-translational protein modifications, in which neural precursor cell expressed developmentally downregulated protein 8 (NEDD8) is covalently conjugated to the lysine residues of target substrates. The best characterized principal substrates of neddylation are the cullin-RING ligases (CRLs). In addition, neddylation also modifies non-cullin proteins to affect gene regulation, cell survival, organ development, and stress response. However, the role of neddylation in antiviral innate immunity remain largely unknown. Here, we found that when neddylation was blocked by the NEDD8 activating enzyme E1 (NAE) inhibitor, MLN4924, the cellular and organismal antiviral response was suppressed. Moreover, the disruption of nedd8 increased the sensitivity of zebrafish to SVCV infection. Further assays indicated that blocking or silencing neddylation significantly downregulated key antiviral genes after poly (I:C) stimulation or SVCV infection, but dramatically increased SVCV replication. Neddylation of Irf3 and Irf7 was readily detected, but not of Mda5, Mavs, and Tbk1. Thus, our results not only demonstrated that neddylation facilitated the antiviral response in vitro and in vivo, but also revealed a novel role of nedd8 in antiviral innate immunity.
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