Volume 22, No 4, Apr 2012

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 22 Issue 4, April 2012: 717-727

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Poly(C)-binding protein 1 (PCBP1) mediates housekeeping degradation of mitochondrial antiviral signaling (MAVS)

Xiang Zhou, Fuping You, Huihui Chen and Zhengfan Jiang

State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Peking University-Tsinghua University Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China Correspondence: Zhengfan Jiang,(jiangzf@pku.edu.cn)

Mitochondrial antiviral signaling (MAVS) is a key adaptor in cellular antiviral innate immunity. We previously identified poly(C)-binding protein 2 (PCBP2) as a feedback inhibitor of MAVS that facilitates its degradation after viral infection, but little is known about the regulatory potential of poly(C)-binding protein 1 (PCBP1), which highly resembles PCBP2. Here we report that PCBP1 mediates housekeeping degradation of MAVS using the same mechanism as PCBP2 employs. Overexpression of PCBP1 impairs MAVS-mediated antiviral responses, while knockdown of PCBP1 exerts the opposite effect. The suppression is due to PCBP1-induced MAVS degradation. We observe that PCBP1 and PCBP2 show synergy in MAVS inhibition, but their expression patterns are distinct: PCBP1 is stably and abundantly expressed, while PCBP2 shows low basal expression with rapid induction after infection. Individual knockdown and subcellular fractionation analyses reveal that unlike the postinfection inhibitor PCBP2, PCBP1 continuously eliminates cellular MAVS. Our findings unravel a critical role of PCBP1 in regulating MAVS for both fine-tuning the antiviral immunity and preventing inflammation.

Cell Research (2012) 22:717-727. doi:10.1038/cr.2011.184; published online 22 November 2011

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