PMID- 31021526 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200225 LR - 20200309 IS - 2211-5463 (Electronic) IS - 2211-5463 (Linking) VI - 9 IP - 6 DP - 2019 Jun TI - Structural insights into interactions between viral suppressor of RNA silencing protein p19 mutants and small RNAs. PG - 1042-1051 LID - 10.1002/2211-5463.12644 [doi] AB - Viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRSs) are a diverse group of viral proteins that have evolved to disrupt eukaryotic RNA silencing pathways, thereby contributing to viral pathogenicity. The p19 protein is a VSRS that selectively binds to short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) over microRNAs (miRNAs). Mutational analysis has identified single amino acid substitutions that reverse this selectivity through new high-affinity interactions with human miR-122. Herein, we report crystal structures of complexed p19-T111S (2.6 A), p19-T111H (2.3 A) and wild-type p19 protein (2.2 A) from the Carnation Italian ringspot virus with small interfering RNA (siRNA) ligands. Structural comparisons reveal that these mutations do not lead to major changes in p19 architecture, but instead promote subtle rearrangement of residues and solvent molecules along the p19 midline. These observations suggest p19 uses many small interactions to distinguish siRNAs from miRNAs and perturbing these interactions can create p19 variants with novel RNA-recognition properties. DATABASE: Model data are deposited in the PDB database under the accession numbers 6BJG, 6BJH and 6BJV. CI - (c) 2019 The Authors. Published by FEBS Press and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Foss, Dana V AU - Foss DV AD - Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Canada. FAU - Schirle, Nicole T AU - Schirle NT AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. FAU - MacRae, Ian J AU - MacRae IJ AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. FAU - Pezacki, John Paul AU - Pezacki JP AD - Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada. LA - eng GR - R01 GM104475/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 GM115649/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R35 GM127090/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20190517 PL - England TA - FEBS Open Bio JT - FEBS open bio JID - 101580716 RN - 0 (MIRN122 microRNA, human) RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (Mutant Proteins) RN - 0 (RNA, Double-Stranded) RN - 0 (RNA, Small Interfering) RN - 0 (Viral Core Proteins) RN - Carnation Italian ringspot virus SB - IM MH - Binding Sites/genetics MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Crystallization MH - Crystallography, X-Ray MH - Escherichia coli/cytology MH - Humans MH - Hydrogen Bonding MH - MicroRNAs/chemistry MH - Mutant Proteins/*chemistry MH - Point Mutation MH - Protein Binding MH - Protein Engineering/methods MH - Protein Structure, Secondary MH - *RNA Interference MH - RNA, Double-Stranded MH - RNA, Small Interfering/*chemistry MH - *Tombusvirus MH - Viral Core Proteins/*chemistry/genetics PMC - PMC6551489 OTO - NOTNLM OT - X-ray crystallography of protein:RNA complex OT - engineering RNA binding proteins OT - p19 protein OT - protein:RNA interactions COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2019/04/26 06:00 MHDA- 2020/02/26 06:00 PMCR- 2019/05/17 CRDT- 2019/04/26 06:00 PHST- 2019/02/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/04/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/04/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/04/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/02/26 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/04/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/05/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - FEB412644 [pii] AID - 10.1002/2211-5463.12644 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - FEBS Open Bio. 2019 Jun;9(6):1042-1051. doi: 10.1002/2211-5463.12644. Epub 2019 May 17.