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Hao Wang Influenza Neuraminidase Novel Mechanisms of Influenza NA that Enable Adaptation and Influenza Neuraminidase Promote Diversification Hao Wang ISBN 978-91-7911-214-1 NA claw machine Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Doctoral Thesis in Biochemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden 2020 Influenza Neuraminidase Novel mechanisms of influenza NA that enable adaptation and promote diversification Hao Wang Academic dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry at Stockholm University to be publicly defended on Tuesday 29 September 2020 at 14.00 in via Zoom. A link will be published on https://www.dbb.su.se. Abstract Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are one of the most common human respiratory pathogens and are largely responsible for the seasonal influenza epidemics that cause mild to severe disease. The two IAV glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (HA or H) and neuraminidase (NA or N), serve as the major surface antigens and also are the main determinants of infectivity, pathogenicity and transmissibility. Due to the high abundance in the IAV envelope and its defined functions of mediating cell binding and viral entry, current influenza vaccines have primarily been developed based on HA. The less abundant NA is a receptor-destroying enzyme that facilitates virion release from the infected cell and the escape from decoy receptors during the entry process. Despite these important roles for infection, NA has been largely neglected in vaccines because of its low abundance and labile properties. The work in this thesis involves several studies that have primarily focused on establishing a general overview of NA maturation and providing a biochemical assessment of the enzymatic properties in the NAs from circulating H1N1 IAVs. The results from these studies show that the membrane integration of a class of NAs is dependent on the synthesis of its long C-terminus, NA tetramerization is coordinated by its N-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and the distal enzymatic head domain, NA stability changes are related to intrinsic and extrinsic determinants, and that the N-linked glycosylation sites on the NA head domain contribute to viral incorporation. In addition, we demonstrated that NA oligomeric structure possesses sufficient plasticity to allow the formation of heterotetramers, which increases the tolerance for suboptimal substitutions and contributes to the diversification of its enzymatic properties. Together, these results provide new insights into the NA maturation process and the biochemical mechanisms that are responsible for the NA property differences that are observed in circulating H1N1 IAVs. Keywords: Influenza, IAV, neuraminidase, transmembrane domain, the central Ca2+ binding site, heterotetrameric formation, viral incorporation, evolution, adaptation, diversification. Stockholm 2020 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182612 ISBN 978-91-7911-214-1 ISBN 978-91-7911-215-8 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm INFLUENZA NEURAMINIDASE Hao Wang Influenza Neuraminidase Novel Mechanisms of Influenza NA that Enable Adaptation and Promote Diversification Hao Wang ©Hao Wang, Stockholm University 2020 ISBN print 978-91-7911-214-1 ISBN PDF 978-91-7911-215-8 Printed in Sweden by Universitetsservice US-AB, Stockholm 2020 Dedication to my family: my parents, mother-in- law, wife, daughter and son. List of publications I. Type II Transmembrane Domain Hydrophobicity Dictates the Co- translational Dependence for Inversion. Dou D, da Silva DV, Nordholm J, Wang H, Daniels R. Mol Biol Cell. 2014 Nov 1;25(21):3363-74. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E14-04-0874 II. The Influenza Virus Neuraminidase Protein Transmembrane and Head Domains Have Coevolved. da Silva DV, Nordholm J, Dou D, Wang H, Rossman JS, Daniels R. J Virol. 2015 Jan 15;89(2):1094-104. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02005-14 III. Structural restrictions for influenza neuraminidase activity promote adaptation and diversification. Wang H, Dou D, Östbye H, Revol R, Daniels R. Nature Microbiol- ogy. 2019 Aug 26; doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0537-z IV. Conserved N-linked glycans on the influenza NA head domain con- tribute to viral incorporation but are not essential for H1N1 replica- tion. Manuscript Östbye H*, Wang H*, Martinez MR., Gao J., Daniels R. * Both authors contributed equally to this work Publications not included in this thesis I. Analysis of IAV Replication and Co-infection Dynamics by a Versa- tile RNA Viral Genome Labeling Method. Dou D, Hernández-Neuta I, Wang H, Östbye H, Qian X, Thiele S, Resa-Infante P, Kouassi NM, Sender V, Hentrich K, Mellroth P, Hen- riques-Normark B, Gabriel G, Nilsson M, Daniels R. Cell Rep. 2017 Jul 5;20(1):251-263. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.021. II. Translational Regulation of Viral Secretory Proteins by the 5' Cod- ing Regions and a Viral RNA-binding Protein. Nordholm J, Petitou J, Östbye H, da Silva DV, Dou D, Wang H, Dan- iels R. J Cell Biol. 2017 Aug 7;216(8):2283-2293. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201702102 III. Multiple nuclear-replicating viruses require the stress- induced pro- tein ZC3H11A for efficient growth. Shady Younis, Wael Kamel, Tina Falkeborn, H Wang, Di Yue, Rob- ert Daniels, Magnus Essand, Jorma Hinkula, Göran Akusjärvi and Leif Andersson. PNAS. 2018 Apr 17;115(16): E3808-E3816. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1722333115 IV. Influenza A Virus Cell Entry, Replication, Virion Assembly and Movement. Dou D, Revol R, Östbye H, Wang H, Daniels R. Front Immunol. 2018 Jul 20;9:1581. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01581 Abstract Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are one of the most common human respiratory pathogens and are largely responsible for the seasonal influenza epidemics that cause mild to severe disease. The two IAV glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (HA or H) and neuraminidase (NA or N), serve as the major surface antigens and also are the main determinants of infectivity, pathogenicity and transmis- sibility. Due to the high abundance in the IAV envelope and its defined func- tions of mediating cell binding and viral entry, current influenza vaccines have primarily been developed based on HA. The less abundant NA is a receptor- destroying enzyme that facilitates virion release from the infected cell and the escape from decoy receptors during the entry process. Despite these important roles for infection, NA has been largely neglected in vaccines because of its low abundance and labile properties. The work in this thesis involves several studies that have primarily focused on establishing a general overview of NA maturation and providing a bio- chemical assessment of the enzymatic properties in the NAs from circulating H1N1 IAVs. The results from these studies show that the membrane integra- tion of a class of NAs is dependent on the synthesis of its long C-terminus, NA tetramerization is coordinated by its N-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) and the distal enzymatic head domain, NA stability changes are related to intrinsic and extrinsic determinants, and that the N-linked glycosylation sites on the NA head domain contribute to viral incorporation. In addition, we demonstrated that NA oligomeric structure possesses sufficient plasticity to allow the formation of heterotetramers, which increases the tolerance for suboptimal substitutions and contributes to the diversification of its enzymatic properties. Together, these results provide new insights into the NA maturation pro- cess and the biochemical mechanisms that are responsible for the NA property differences that are observed in circulating H1N1 IAVs. Contents Influenza A virus ............................................................................... 1 IAV subtypes ......................................................................................... 2 IAV life cycle ........................................................................................ 2 IAV Neuraminidase ........................................................................... 7 Structure ................................................................................................ 8 Synthesis and Maturation ..................................................................... 11 Functions ............................................................................................. 14 NA as antiviral target and a vaccine antigen ......................................... 17 Results summary ............................................................................. 21 Conclusions and future perspectives ................................................ 25 Sammanfattning på svenska ............................................................. 29 Acknowledgments ........................................................................... 31 References ....................................................................................... 33 Abbreviations ADCC antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity ADPC antibody-dependent phagocytosis CRM1 chromosomal maintenance 1 cRNA complementary RNA DANA 2,3-dehydro-2-deoxy-N-acetylneuraminic acid ER endoplasmic reticulum HA hemagglutinin IAV Influenza A virus M1 matrix protein 1 M2 matrix protein 2 MAbs monoclonal antibodies NA neuraminidase NAIs neuraminidase inhibitors NK natural killer NLS nuclear localization sequence NP nucleoprotein OST oligosaccharyltransferase PA polymerase acidic protein PB1 polymerase basic protein 1 PB2 polymerase basic protein 2 SA sialic acid SRP signal recognition particle SS ER signal sequence TMD transmembrane domain vRNP viral ribonucleoprotein vRNA viral RNA Influenza A virus IAVs are one of the