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SARS-CoV-2-mediated evasion strategies for antiviral interferon pathways: Soo-Jin Oh , Ok Sarah Shin; J. Microbiol. 2022;60(3):290-299. Published online February 5, 2022; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-022-1525-1

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With global expansion of the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of new variants, extensive efforts have been made to develop highly effective antiviral drugs and vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. The interactions of coronaviruses with host antiviral interferon pathways ultimately determine successful viral replication and SARS-CoV-2-induced pathogenesis. Innate immune receptors play an essential role in host defense against SARS-CoV-2 via the induction of IFN production and signaling. Here, we summarize the recent advances in innate immune sensing mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 and various strategies by which SARS-CoV-2 antagonizes antiviral innate immune signaling pathways, with a particular focus on mechanisms utilized by multiple SARS-CoV-2 proteins to evade interferon induction and signaling in host cell. Understanding the underlying immune evasion mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 is essential for the improvement of vaccines and therapeutic strategies.

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σ38 in Escherichia coli is required for expression of a subset of stationary phase genes. However, the promoter elements for σ38-dependent genes are virtually indistinguishable from that for σ70-dependent house-keeping genes. hdeABp is a σ38-dependent promoter and LEE5p is a σ70-dependent promoter, but both are repressed by H-NS, a bacterial histone- like protein, which acts at promoter upstream sequence. We swapped the promoter upstream sequences of the two promoters and found that the σ dependency was switched. This was further verified using lacUV5 core promoter. The
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Abstract: The structure of plasmid mlp1, a linear 10.2kb mitochondrial plasmid of Pleurotus ostreatus NFF A2 was determined by restriction enzyme mapping and partial sequencing. The plasmid encodes at least two proteins; a putative RNA polymerase showing homology to yeast mitochondrial RNA polymerase and to viral-encoded RNA polymerases, and a putative DNA polymerase showing significant homology to the family B thpe DNA polymerases. It also contains terminal inverted repeat sequences at both ends which are longer than 274 bp. A 1.6 kb EcoRI restriction fragment of m1p1 containing the putative RNA polymerase gene did not hybridize to the nuclear or motochondrial genomes from P. ostreatus, suggesting that it may encode plasmidspecific RNA polymerase. The gene fragment also did not hybridize with the RNA polymerase gene (RPO41) from Saccaromyces cerevisiae. The relationship between genes in m1p1 and those in another linear plasmid pC1K1 of Claviceps purpurea was examined by DNA hybridization. The result indicates that the genes for DNA and RNA polymerases are not closely related with those in C. purpurea.

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Abstract: Yeast mitochondral RNA polymerase specificity factor encoded by the nuclear MTF1 gene is required for a selective transcription on nonanucleotide mitochondral promoter by core RNA polymerase. Although there is a little amino acid sequence similarity of Mtf1p with bacterial sigma factors, the mode of transcriptional initiation of mitochondrial RNA polymerase is identical to that of E. coli RNA polymerase. To study the interaction of mtf1p with core polymerase, we carried out region-directed random mutagenesis of the core binding domain with the pool of mutant oligonucleotide. Out of 4,000 transformants screened for petite phenotype on glycerol media by plasmid shuffling, six alleles of the MTF1 gene were isolated. The positions of amino acid replacements that resulted in mtf1 mutants were limited to amino acids 53-54 and 65-67. Among mutant forms of Mtf1p overproduced in E. coli, Mtf1p with either L53H or Y65Dmutation was unable to produce a selective transcript in run-off transcription reaction, suggesting that amino acids L53 and Y65 are crucial for promoter recognition and/or contact with core polymerase.

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Abstract: Human mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) is mainly responsible for oxidation of acetaldehyde generated during alcohol oxidation in vivo. A full-length cDNA of human liver ALDH2 was successfully expressed using a vaccinia virus-T7 RNA polymerase system. The expressed ALDH2 had an enzymatic activity as high as the native human liver ALDH2 enzyme.

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