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The antiviral adaptor proteins Cardif and Trif are processed and inactivated by caspases
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Rebsamen, Manuele
Meylan, Etienne
Curran, Joseph
Tschopp, Jean-Marie
Published in Cell Death and Differentiation. 2008, vol. 15, no. 11, p. 1804-11
Abstract The outcome of a viral infection depends on the interplay between the host's capacity to trigger potent antiviral responses and viral mechanisms that counteract them. Although Toll-like receptor (TLR)-3, which recognizes virally derived double-stranded (ds) RNA, transmits downstream antiviral signaling through the TIR adaptor Trif (TICAM-1), viral RNA-sensing RIG-like helicases (RLHs) use the mitochondrial-bound CARD protein Cardif (IPS-1/MAVS/VISA). The importance of these two antiviral signaling pathways is reflected by the fact that both adaptors are inhibited through specific cleavage triggered by the hepatitis C virus serine protease NS3-4A. Here, we show that inactivation can also occur through cellular caspases activated by various pro-apoptotic signals. Upon caspase-dependent cleavage both adaptors loose their capacity to activate the transcription factors interferon regulatory factors (IRF) and NF-kappaB. Importantly, poliovirus infection triggers a caspase-dependent cleavage of Cardif, suggesting that some viruses may activate caspases not only as a mean to facilitate shedding and replication, but also to impair antiviral responses.
Keywords Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism — Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/metabolism — Antiviral Agents/metabolism — Caspases/metabolism — Hela Cells — Humans — Interferon Regulatory Factors/metabolism — Models, Biological — Poliovirus/physiology — Protein Processing, Post-Translational
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PMID: 18756281
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Other version: http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v15/n11/full/cdd2008119a.html
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de microbiologie et médecine moléculaire
Research group Régulation traductionnelle dans les cellules de mammifère (631)
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(ISO format) 		REBSAMEN, Manuele et al. The antiviral adaptor proteins Cardif and Trif are processed and inactivated by caspases. In: Cell Death and Differentiation, 2008, vol. 15, n° 11, p. 1804-11. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:1889

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