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. 2024 Jun;1871(5):119745.
doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2024.119745. Epub 2024 May 6.

Rotavirus non-structural protein 4 usurps host cellular RIPK1-RIPK3 complex to induce MLKL-dependent necroptotic cell death

Pritam Chandra  1 , Upayan Patra  2 , Urbi Mukhopadhyay  3 , Arpita Mukherjee  1 , Prolay Halder  4 , Hemanta Koley  4 , Mamta Chawla-Sarkar  5
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Rotavirus non-structural protein 4 usurps host cellular RIPK1-RIPK3 complex to induce MLKL-dependent necroptotic cell death

Pritam Chandra et al. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2024 Jun.

Abstract

The dynamic interface between invading viral pathogens and programmed cell death (PCD) of the host is a finely regulated process. Host cellular demise at the end of the viral life cycle ensures the release of progeny virions to initiate new infection cycles. Rotavirus (RV), a diarrheagenic virus with double-stranded RNA genome, has been reported to trigger different types of PCD such as apoptosis and pyroptosis in a highly regulated way to successfully disseminate progeny virions. Recently our lab also showed that induction of MLKL-driven programmed necroptosis by RV. However, the host cellular machinery involved in RV-induced necroptosis and the upstream viral trigger responsible for it remained unaddressed. In the present study, the signalling upstream of MLKL-driven necroptosis has been delineated where the involvement of Receptor interacting serine/threonine kinase 3 (RIPK3) and 1 (RIPK1) from the host side and RV non-structural protein 4 (NSP4) as the viral trigger for necroptosis has been shown. Interestingly, RV-NSP4 was found to be an integral component of the necrosome complex by interacting with RIPK1, thereby bypassing the requirement of RIPK1 kinase activity. Subsequently, NSP4-driven elevated cytosolic Ca2+ concentration and Ca2+-binding to NSP4 lead further to RHIM domain-dependent RIPK1-RIPK3 interaction, RIPK3-dependent MLKL phosphorylation, and eventual necroptosis. Overall, this study presents the interplay between RV-NSP4 and the host cellular necrosome complex to induce necroptotic death of host cells.

Keywords: Calcium efflux; Kinase activity; Necroptosis; Necrosome; Rotavirus; Viroporin.

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