SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid protein attenuates stress granule formation and alters gene expression via direct interaction with host mRNAs Syed Nabeel-Shah1,2,5, Hyunmin Lee1,3,5, Nujhat Ahmed1,2,5, Edyta Marcon1,5, Shaghayegh Farhangmehr1,2, Shuye Pu1, Giovanni L. Burke1,2, Kanwal Ashraf1, Hong Wei4, Guoqing Zhong1, Hua Tang1, Jianyi Yang4, Benjamin J. Blencowe1,2, Zhaolei Zhang1,2,3, Jack F. Greenblatt1,2, * 1. Donnelly Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3E1, Canada 2. Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A8, Canada. 3. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A8, Canada. 4. School of Mathematical Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China 5 These authors contributed equally to this work * Corresponding author: Jack F. Greenblatt; Email:
[email protected] Keywords: SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Nucleocapsid N protein, Stress granules, G3BP1 and G3BP2, Gene expression regulation, host mRNA-binding Supplemental Figures Extended Figure 1: Dot plot overview of the interaction partners identified with 21 SARS-CoV- 2 proteins expressed in HEK293 cells. Inner circle color represents the average spectral count, the circle size maps to the relative prey abundance across all samples shown, and the circle outer edge represents the SAINT FDR. Legend is provided. Extended Figure 2: KEGG pathway (A) and Biological processes (B) enrichment analysis using cellular proteins identified as high confidence (FDR<1%) interaction partners for the SARS- CoV-2 proteins. Only top 10 most significant terms are shown (Q0.05). Darker nodes are more significantly enriched gene sets. Bigger nodes represent larger gene sets. Thicker edges represent more overlapped genes.