RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The Interferon Signaling Antagonist Function of Yellow Fever Virus NS5 Protein Is Activated by Type I Interferon A1 Laurent-Rolle, Maudry A1 Morrison, Juliet A1 Rajsbaum, Ricardo A1 Macleod, Jesica M. Levingston A1 Pisanelli, Giuseppe A1 Pham, Alissa A1 Ayllón Barasoain, Juan A1 Miorin, Lisa A1 Martínez Romero, Carles A1 tenOever, Benjamin R. A1 García Sastre, Adolfo K1 Medicina K1 Medicine K1 Salud K1 Health K1 Microbiología K1 Microbiology K1 Enfermedades infecciosas K1 Communicable diseases AB To successfully establish infection, flaviviruses have to overcome the antiviral state induced by type I interferon (IFN-I). The nonstructural NS5 proteins of several flaviviruses antagonize IFN-I signaling. Here we show that yellow fever virus (YFV) inhibits IFN-I signaling through a unique mechanism that involves binding of YFV NS5 to the IFN-activated transcription factor STAT2 only in cells that have been stimulated with IFN-I. This NS5-STAT2 interaction requires IFN-I-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT1 and the K63-linked polyubiquitination at a lysine in the N-terminal region of YFV NS5. We identified TRIM23 as the E3 ligase that interacts with and polyubiquitinates YFV NS5 to promote its binding to STAT2 and trigger IFN-I signaling inhibition. Our results demonstrate the importance of YFV NS5 in overcoming the antiviral action of IFN-I and offer a unique example of a viral protein that is activated by the same host pathway that it inhibits. PB Cell Press SN 1931-3128 YR 2014 FD 2014-09 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9529 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9529 LA eng NO These studies were partly supported by NIAID grant U54AI057158 (to A.G.-S.) and by NIH fellowship FAI077333A (to M.L.-R.). We thank Richard Cadagan and Osman Lizardo for technical assistance, and Dr. Adriana Forero for editorial help. Confocal laser scanning microscopy was performed at ISMMS-Microscopy Shared Resource facility. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 23-nov-2024