Vaccinia virus encodes a previously uncharacterized mitochondrial-associated inhibitor of apoptosis
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Abstract
To circumvent apoptotic death, many viruses encode Bcl-2 homologous proteins that function at the mitochondria. Vaccinia virus, the prototypic member of the Poxviridae family, does not encode a Bcl-2 homolog but inhibits the mitochondrial arm of the apoptotic cascade by an unknown mechanism. We now report that F1L, a previously unidentified protein in vaccinia virus, is responsible for the inhibition of apoptosis. Cells infected with vaccinia virus are resistant to staurosporine-mediated cleavage of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, caspases 3 and 9, and release of cytochrome c. In contrast, a vaccinia virus deletion mutant, VV811, was unable to inhibit apoptosis; however, the antiapoptotic function was restored by expression of the F1L ORF, which is absent in VV811. Although F1L displays no homology to members of the Bcl-2 family, it localizes to the mitochondria through a C-terminal hydrophobic domain. We show that expression of F1L interferes with apoptosis by inhibiting the loss of the inner mitochondrial membrane potential and the release of cytochrome c.
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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