Coronavirus Replication Complex Formation Utilizes Components of Cellular Autophagy

The coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) performs RNA replication on double membrane vesicles (DMVs) in the cytoplasm of the host cell. However, the mechanism by which these DMVs form has not been determined. Using genetic, biochemical, and cell imaging approaches, the role of autophagy in DMV formation and MHV replication was investigated. The results demonstrated that replication complexes co-localize with the autophagy proteins, microtubule-associated protein light-chain 3 and Apg12. MHV infection induces autophagy by a mechanism that is resistant to 3-methyladenine inhibition. MHV replication is impaired in autophagy knockout, APG5–/–, embryonic stem cell lines, but wild-type levels of MHV replication are restored by expression of Apg5 in the APG5–/–cells. In MHV-infected APG5–/–cells, DMVs were not detected; rather, the rough endoplasmic reticulum was dramatically swollen. The results of this study suggest that autophagy is required for formation of double membrane-bound MHV replication complexes and that DMV formation significantly enhances the efficiency of replication. Furthermore, the rough endoplasmic reticulum is implicated as the possible source of membranes for replication complexes. The coronavirus mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) performs RNA replication on double membrane vesicles (DMVs) in the cytoplasm of the host cell. However, the mechanism by which these DMVs form has not been determined. Using genetic, biochemical, and cell imaging approaches, the role of autophagy in DMV formation and MHV replication was investigated. The results demonstrated that replication complexes co-localize with the autophagy proteins, microtubule-associated protein light-chain 3 and Apg12. MHV infection induces autophagy by a mechanism that is resistant to 3-methyladenine inhibition. MHV replication is impaired in autophagy knockout, APG5–/–, embryonic stem cell lines, but wild-type levels of MHV replication are restored by expression of Apg5 in the APG5–/–cells. In MHV-infected APG5–/–cells, DMVs were not detected; rather, the rough endoplasmic reticulum was dramatically swollen. The results of this study suggest that autophagy is required for formation of double membrane-bound MHV replication complexes and that DMV formation significantly enhances the efficiency of replication. Furthermore, the rough endoplasmic reticulum is implicated as the possible source of membranes for replication complexes. Autophagy is a cellular stress response that functions to recycle proteins and organelles (1Klionsky D.J. Emr S.D. Science. 2000; 290: 1717-1721Crossref PubMed Scopus (2988) Google Scholar, 2Reggiori F. Klionsky D.J. Eukaryot. Cell. 2002; 1: 11-21Crossref PubMed Scopus (474) Google Scholar). 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Thus, to whether replication complexes and the replication were with the of to in MHV-infected cells. was only with that the of replication complexes and were not with with shown that replication complexes with LC3, with replication complexes the course of The of LC3, hel, N, and was at and and p.i., and were and but by p.i., the two proteins were and by p.i., and were the of the and proteins were and were the infection Together, these results of that the and proteins replication complexes to of viral to newly RNA for newly Prentice E. Denison M.R. Virology. 2001; PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). was with and at and p.i., and were but by p.i., and were only and by and were only the of and were and were the course of the infection Thus, not with and to of that with replication complexes, the of was with the replication Prentice E. Denison M.R. 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In a of rough endoplasmic reticulum was but membrane was In the MHV infection in the of DMVs similar to those in MHV-infected cells In the demonstrated of MHV to replicate in DMVs were not in the MHV-infected cells. the of the membranes in MHV-infected cells was with membranes the of cells These membranes with the and with an in the in multiple vesicles to be by the were with membranes that the of autophagic The in MHV-infected cells were entirely in or cells that the membrane were by MHV The in this that cellular autophagy an important role in MHV replication and that infection with MHV induces cellular this is the first to that of the autophagic pathway are required for formation of a viral replication complex and for viral The autophagy by MHV infection was not to treatment, of viral by up to not that an pathway of autophagy is by MHV infection or that viral proteins, to treatment, may or autophagic The mechanism by which MHV induces autophagy to be determined. has been shown to be for autophagic (3Talloczy Z. 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However, viral was by in the lines, and with and cells with an that the efficiency of replication is by DMV The of infected cells was the in these cells that to multiple of these vesicles were by and the of cytoplasm and may have been of cytoplasm the of the that the of vesicles in it is possible that the may of the The is similar to the in cells with a in however, Apg5 is not known to play role in was only in MHV-infected cells and not in cells or in infected or that MHV is with or a process that The mechanism by which form replication complexes has not been determined. have shown that multiple MHV proteins that with membranes R. Kanjanahaluethai A. Egger D. Bienz K. Baker S.C. J. Virol. 2002; 76: 3697-3708Crossref PubMed Scopus (339) Google Scholar, 10Sims A.C. Ostermann J. Denison M.R. J. Virol. 2000; 74: 5647-5654Crossref PubMed Scopus (64) Google Scholar, M.R. Sims A.C. Med. Biol. 2001; PubMed Scopus Google Scholar). 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