The ESCRT-I subunit TSG101 controls endosome-to-cytosol release of viral RNA.

Abstract

Like other enveloped viruses, vesicular stomatitis virus infects cells through endosomes. There, the viral envelope undergoes fusion with endosomal membranes, thereby releasing the nucleocapsid into the cytoplasm and allowing infection to proceed. Previously, we reported that the viral envelope fuses preferentially with the membrane of vesicles present within multivesicular endosomes. Then, these intra-endosomal vesicles (containing nucleocapsids) are transported to late endosomes, where back-fusion with the endosome limiting membrane delivers the nucleocapsid into the cytoplasm. In this study, we show that the tumor susceptibility gene 101 (Tsg101) subunit of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT)-I complex, which mediates receptor sorting into multivesicular endosomes, is dispensable for viral envelope fusion with endosomal membranes and viral RNA transport to late endosomes but is necessary for infection. Our data indicate that Tsg101, in contrast to the ESCRT-0 component Hrs, plays a direct role in nucleocapsid release from within multivesicular endosomes to the cytoplasm, presumably by controlling the back-fusion process. We conclude that Tsg101, through selective interactions with its partners including Hrs and Alix, may link receptor sorting and lysosome targeting to the back-fusion process involved in viral capsid release.

• Authors: Pierre-Philippe Luyet, Thomas Falguières, Véronique Pons, Asit K Pattnaik, Jean Gruenberg
• Journal: Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) (Traffic) Vol. 9 Issue 12 Pg. 2279-90 (Dec 2008) ISSN: 1600-0854 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 18817529 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• DNA-Binding Proteins
• Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport
• Protein Subunits
• RNA, Viral
• Transcription Factors
• Tsg101 protein

Topics

• Animals
• Biological Transport
• Capsid (metabolism)
• Cell Line
• Cricetinae
• Cytosol (metabolism)
• DNA-Binding Proteins (genetics, metabolism)
• Endocytosis
• Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport
• Endosomes (metabolism)
• Humans
• Protein Subunits (metabolism)
• RNA, Viral (metabolism, ultrastructure)
• Transcription Factors (genetics, metabolism)
• Vesiculovirus (metabolism, ultrastructure)
• Virus Internalization