key: cord-0922609-9jgg8ukr
authors: Zhang, Qiang; Sharma, Nishi R.; Zheng, Zhi-Ming; Chen, Mingzhou
title: Viral Regulation of RNA Granules in Infected Cells
date: 2019-04-29
journal: Virol Sin
DOI: 10.1007/s12250-019-00122-3
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doc_id: 922609
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RNA granules are cytoplasmic, microscopically visible, non-membrane ribo-nucleoprotein structures and are important posttranscriptional regulators in gene expression by controlling RNA translation and stability. TIA/G3BP/PABP-specific stress granules (SG) and GW182/DCP-specific RNA processing bodies (PB) are two major distinguishable RNA granules in somatic cells and contain various ribosomal subunits, translation factors, scaffold proteins, RNA-binding proteins, RNA decay enzymes and helicases to exclude mRNAs from the cellular active translational pool. Although SG formation is inducible due to cellular stress, PB exist physiologically in every cell. Both RNA granules are important components of the host antiviral defense. Virus infection imposes stress on host cells and thus induces SG formation. However, both RNA and DNA viruses must confront the hostile environment of host innate immunity and apply various strategies to block the formation of SG and PB for their effective infection and multiplication. This review summarizes the current research development in the field and the mechanisms of how individual viruses suppress the formation of host SG and PB for virus production.

While the intracellular environment and embedded cellular machinery provide the needed vital force and necessary materials for viruses to replicate after infection, these host machineries are not available to these foreign invaders at ease. In fact, viruses have to counter the multiple layers of intracellular defense to replicate and establish their dominance for their propagation. RNA granules ) are dynamic non-membrane subcellular structures (Ivanov et al. 2018) containing translationally silenced messenger ribonucleoproteins (mRNPs), which play an important role in regulation of cellular homeostasis, RNA metabolism and gene expression at the posttranscriptional level (Anderson and Kedersha 2009 ). Stress granules (SG) and processing bodies (PB) (Eulalio et al. 2007 ) are two of RNA granules well characterized in yeast and mammalian cells (Poblete-Duran et al. 2016) and are important components of the host cell antiviral defense.

SG are non-membranous, transiently assembled cytoplasmic aggregates of 48S mRNPs and associated proteins (Stohr et al. 2006; Buchan and Parker 2009) , where stalled translation preinitiation complexes (PICs) repress the translation of nonessential mRNAs (Anderson et al. 2015) and modulate cell signaling by sequestering key signal translation proteins . Thus, SG are thought to be the aggregates of stable, translationally silent mRNAs . A variety of environmental stresses, including viral infection, can trigger SG formation in eukaryotic cells . In contrast, PB can exist in the absence of stress (Stoecklin and Kedersha 2013) , which are sites of active mRNA decay (Decker and Parker 2012) . SG initiate global translational arrest by storing mRNA (Anderson and Kedersha 2009 ) for exchange with either polysomes for translation or PB for degradation . RNA-binding proteins TIA-1 (Kedersha et al. 1999; Gilks et al. 2004) , G3BP (Tourriere et al. 2003; Matsuki et al. 2013) and PABP (Ma et al. 2009; Smith and Gray 2010; Burgess et al. 2011) are three fundamental components of SG during stress (Fig. 1 ). GW182 and de-capping/deadenylating enzymes are specific components of PB , where siRNA-or miRNA-guided mRNAs are processed and degraded (Liu et al. 2005) (Fig. 1) . Virus infection imposes stress on host cells (McInerney et al. 2005) and thereby induces SG formation. SG can shut off the translation of bulk mRNAs (Poblete-Duran et al. 2016) to regulate gene expression and compartmentalization of heterologous viral RNAs and proteins. At the same time, viruses must take strategies to confront these responses and maximize their own replication efficiency (White and Lloyd 2012) by inhibition of SG formation and disruption of PB assembly via virally encoded factors.

The process of SG formation can be artificially divided into the following steps ( Fig. 2) : (1) accumulation of stalled translation initiation complexes ) in response to various types of stress; (2) the RNA-binding proteins such as RAS-GTPase-activating protein SH3 domain-binding protein 1 (G3BP1) and T cell-restricted intracellular antigen 1 (TIA1) bind mRNAs and aggregate to nucleate SG formation. Self-aggregation of G3BP1 (Tourriere et al. 2003) and the binding of TIA1 and TIAR (TIA-1-related protein) to polysome-free mRNAs, which exposes prion-like domains (Gilks et al. 2004) , trigger mRNP aggregation. The aggregation of proteins is dynamic, and can rapidly exchange between SG and cytosol (Kedersha et al. 2000 . (3) large SG aggregate from smaller foci via posttranslational modification and microtubule transport (McCormick and Khaperskyy 2017) . Many SG proteins undergo multiple post-translational modifications (Jayabalan et al. 2016; Protter and Parker 2016) . For example, G3BP1 must be demethylated (Tsai et al. 2016) , dephosphorylated and poly(ADP)-ribosylated (Leung et al. 2011) to promote SG nucleation. Accordingly, SG formation also requires ongoing transport of mRNPs along with an intact microtubule cytoskeleton (Ivanov et al. 2003) . Theoretically, viral interference with any of these important steps may modulate SG formation in cells. In fact, many viral factors can interfere with SG formation and/or function. Meanwhile, SG can entrap viral RNA in some cases (McCormick and Khaperskyy 2017) . Therefore, SG are thought to be antiviral (Rozelle et al. 2014) . Thus, to illustrate the relationship between SG and RNA viruses would be important for us to better understand the interactions of host and viruses.

Up to the present, SG can be divided into two types according to their formation mode. Type I SG formation depends on phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor-2a (eIF2a) by one of the eIF2 kinases-doublestranded RNA (dsRNA)-activated protein kinase or protein kinase R (PKR) (Srivastava et al. 1998; Garcia et al. 2007; Onomoto et al. 2012) , PKR-like ER kinase (PERK) (Harding et al. 2000a, b) , general control non-derepressible protein 2 (GCN2) (Wek et al. 1995; Deng et al. 2002) or haeme-regulated inhibitor (HRI) (McEwen et al. 2005) , which are activated by distinct types of stress. Phosphorylated eIF2a stably binds to eIF2b, which prevents the recycle of eIF2 and regeneration of the eIF2-GTP-Met-tRNA i Met ternary complex. Thus, eIF2a phosphorylation blocks recognition of the initiation codon and joining of the large ribosomal subunit, resulting in accumulation of stalled 48S mRNPs (Jackson et al. 2010) . Type II SG formation is independent of eIF2a phosphorylation, but requires eIF4F complex disruption such as inhibition of eIF4A RNA helicase Dang et al. 2006) or disruption of eIF4E activity (von der Haar et al. 2004; Fournier et al. 2013) for recognition and binding of RNA cap structure. The stress induced by nutrient, energy, oxygen or growth factor insufficiency inhibits mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1), whose activity is required for the dissociation of 4EBPs from eIF4E (Fujimura et al. 2012) and enables eIF4E to form the eIF4F complex, and thus blocks assembly of pre-initiation complexes (Zoncu et al. 2011) .

Type I SG formation induced by viruses is the most and best-studied example (Table 1, Fig. 3A ). Various RNA products derived by viruses including long dsRNA (Rojas et al. 2010) , 5 0 -triphosphate RNA (5 0 -ppp-RNA) (Nallagatla et al. 2007) , dsRNA that is formed by the antiparallel mRNA transcripts of some DNA viruses (Willis et al. 2011) , and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transactivation-response region (TAR) RNA hairpins (Heinicke et al. 2009 ), can be recognized by PKR. The activated PKR initiates SG assembly through eIF2a phosphorylation. For instance, the persistent phosphorylation of eIF2a (Montero et al. 2008 ) during rotavirus infection is PKR-dependent as a consequence of the accumulation of viral dsRNA in the cytoplasm outside the viroplasms (virus-induced cytoplasmic inclusion bodies called viroplasms [VMs]) (Rojas et al. 2010) . Even though eIF2a is phosphorylated in rotavirusinfected cells, the formation of SG is prevented and viral proteins are efficiently translated, suggesting that the virus prevents the assembly of these structures presumably downstream of eIF2a phosphorylation to allow the translation of its mRNAs (Mazroui et al. 2006) . Very recently, Dhillon and Rao found that rotavirus induces formation and sequestration of remodeled SG and PB in the VMs which contain the majorities of their components but selective exclusion of a few proteins (G3BP1 and ZBP1 for SG, DDX6, EDC4 and Pan3 for PB), to promote virus replication (Dhillon and Rao 2018) . Oceguera et al. demonstrated that viral RNA of rotavirus could interact with several RNA binding proteins (RBPs) (Xrn1, Dcp1, Ago2, Hur) and interfere with their subcellular localization (Oceguera et al. 2018 ). Lindquist et al. (Lindquist et al. 2011) first determined that SG induction by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) was mediated by PKR-dependent eIF2a phosphorylation. The RSV-mediated SG formation was significantly reduced in PKR-knockdown cells (Lindquist et al. 2010 ). In addition, it has been shown that Hepatitis C virus (HCV) strongly activates PKR via the 5 0untranslated region (UTR) of its genome (Toroney et al. 2010) , thereby inducing SG. NS1-mutant Influenza virus A (IAV) (Khaperskyy et al. 2012; Mok et al. 2012; Ng et al. 2013 ) and C protein-deficient Sendai virus (SeV) (Takeuchi et al. 2008) lead to significant activation of PKR and eIF2a phosphorylation. Besides, PERK could be activated by high levels of glycoproteins produced from enveloped GCN2. Type II SG formation: RVFV attenuates mTOR signaling to inhibite 4EBP phosphorylation. All above lead to the formation of stalled translation complexes to initiate the assembly of SG. viruses (Chan and Egan 2005) , and general control nonderepressible-2 (GCN2) could be activated by Sindbis virus (SINV) genomic RNA (Berlanga et al. 2006) , both leading to phosphorylation of eIF2a. GCN2 prevents replication of SINV in the early stages of the viral replicative cycle by blocking the synthesis of NSPs from SINV RNA (Berlanga et al. 2006; Frolova et al. 2006; Gorchakov et al. 2008) . Viruses also induce SG formation independent of eIF2a phosphorylation (Table 1 ). The most typical example is from Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) (Habjan et al. 2009; Ikegami et al. 2009) (Fig. 2) . RVFV (Hopkins et al. 2015) infection attenuates Akt/mTOR signaling and inhibits 4EBP phosphorylation and translation of 5 0 -TOP mRNAs, subsequently leading to an inhibition of global protein translation. 5 0 -TOP-containing mRNAs are indeed targeted to PB, where RVFV uses these cellular mRNAs for cap-snatching (Hopkins et al. 2015) . This can reflect that SG may interact with PB in a process that is thought to result in the exchange of mRNA cargos ). Whether any virus induces SG formation to cause translation inhibition due to the destruction of eIF4G or eIF4A is worth exploring in the future.

SG formation shuts off bulk host protein synthesis. However, all viruses depend on the host translation apparatus for their gene expression. Therefore, viruses, as intracellular parasites, have to modulate the stress response pathway and SG assembly to translate their proteins for virus replication. RNA viruses modulate stress response pathway at different levels of SG formation (Table 1) : One is to regulate eIF2a phosphorylation, and the other is to regulate the process of SG nucleation.

In some cases, viral gene products can act as antagonists by targeting the virus-activated eIF2a kinases such as PKR or even by directly modulating the phosphorylation of eIF2a (Fig. 3A) . IAV NS1 (Khaperskyy et al. 2012; Ng et al. 2013) , Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) accessory protein 4a (Rabouw et al. 2016; Nakagawa et al. 2018) , and Ebola virus (EBOV) multifunctional protein VP35 (Nelson et al. 2016; Le Sage et al. 2017 ) bind viral dsRNA and prevent the viral dsRNA from PKR binding to inhibit SG formation. Inhibition of SG formation facilitates the translation of viral mRNAs, leading to efficient virus replication. HCV NS5A protein (Toroney et al. 2010) binds to the PKR dimerization domain to inhibit PKR activation. Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) NS2A protein (Tu et al. 2012 ) might similarly interact with PKR and then prevent PKR dimer formation. SeV (Takeuchi et al. 2008) and measles virus (MV) (Okonski and Samuel 2013) encode a C protein to limit the accumulation of dsRNA to inhibit SG formation. It seems that a portion of RNA viruses encode RNA binding proteins to antagonize the activity of PKR. There are also other groups of RNA viruses which directly modulate the phosphorylation of eIF2a without PKR. Junín virus (JUNV) prevents SG assembly by impairing the phosphorylation of eIF2a through its nucleoprotein (N) and glycoprotein precursor (GPC) (Linero et al. 2011) . However, its mechanism remains to be elucidated, although it may be similar to HCV. Ruggieri and colleagues reported that HCV rapidly de-phosphorylated eIF2a through protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) and its regulatory subunit GADD34

(growth arrest and DNA-damage-inducible 34) (Kojima et al. 2003; Clavarino et al. 2012; Ruggieri et al. 2012 . Redistribution or sequestering SG components to the viral replication sites is another strategy used by many viruses to impair SG assembly in infected cells (Fig. 3B ). ZIKV infection induces the redistribution of TIAR to the viral RNA replication sites (Hou et al. 2017) ; SeV Trailer RNA captures TIAR from SG (Iseni et al. 2002) ; West Nile Virus (WNV) and Dengue virus (DENV) 3 0 -end viral genome captures TIA-1/TIAR (Li et al. 2002; Emara and Brinton 2007; Xia et al. 2015) ; DENV 3 0 -UTR interacts with G3BP1, G3BP2, Caprin1 and USP10 (Ward et al. 2011; Reineke et al. 2015) ; JEV recruits G3BP and USP10 to the perinuclear region through the interaction of JEV core protein with Caprin-1, a SG-associated cellular factor (Ward et al. 2011) . Theiler murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) and mengovirus, a strain of EMCV, express the leader (L) protein to inhibit G3BP1 aggregation (Borghese and Michiels 2011) . Sequestration or redistribution of SG components by viruses through protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions not only prevents SG assembly, but also facilitates viral genome replication. HCV-JFH1 infection redistributes several SG components, including G3BP1, ataxin-2 (ATX2), and poly(A)-binding protein 1 (PABP1), to the HCV replication complex (RC) (Ariumi et al. 2011; Pene et al. 2015) , and co-opts G3BP1 to mediate efficient viral replication by interaction with NS5B and the 5 0 end of the HCV minus-strand RNA (Ariumi et al. 2011; Garaigorta et al. 2012 ). (Fig. 3B ). Sequestration of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (OGN) transferase (OGT), an enzyme that catalyzes the posttranslational addition of OGN to protein targets, in RSV IBs was also proposed to regulate SG nucleation and suppression of SG formation (Fricke et al. 2013) (Fig. 3B ). Viral transcription and replication of RABV take place within Negri bodies (NBs), which are IB-like structures (Lahaye et al. 2009 ). RABV-induced SG are normally located closely to NBs. Viral mRNAs rather than viral genomic RNA accumulate in the SG-like structures together with cellular mRNAs were found to be specially transported from NBs to SG-like structures (Nikolic et al. 2016) . VSV infection also induces formation of the SG-like structures that co-localize with viral replication proteins and RNA, which are different from canonical SG (Dinh et al. 2013) . SG proteins (eIF4G, eIF3, PABP) are selectively sequestered within Ebola virus inclusion bodies and co-localize with viral RNA to form inclusion body-bound granules, which are functionally and structurally different from canonical SG, probably leading to inhibit the antiviral role of SG (Nelson et al. 2016) (Fig. 3B) . Collectively, these findings provoke more investigations on the roles of viral IBs in viral replication and resisting cellular responses.

Unlike RNA viruses, the regulation of SG formation during infection with DNA viruses is poorly understood. It was reported that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection modifies the unfolded protein response (UPR) and activates PERK (Fig. 2) , but limiting the amount of phosphorylated eIF2a to maintain translation (Isler et al. 2005 ). Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) ORF57 (Sharma et al. 2017) interacts with PKR and PKR-activating protein (PACT) (Patel et al. 2000) to inhibit PKR binding dsRNA and prevent PACT-PKR interaction in the PKR pathway (Li et al. 2006) , respectively. HCMV pTRS1 and pIRS1 antagonize PKR to facilitate virus replication (Ziehr et al. 2016) . The HSV-1 vhs (Sciortino et al. 2013 ) and Us11 protein (Cassady and Gross 2002) play a key role in blocking the activation of PKR. Smiley and colleagues also demonstrated that infection with virion host shutoff protein (vhs)-defective herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) triggers SG formation, and PKR is essential for SG formation in the absence of vhs (Dauber et al. 2016) (Fig. 3A) . Finnen et al. previously established that herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2) infection impacts stress granule accumulation in response to oxidative stress (Finnen et al. 2012) . They also demonstrated that disruption of SG is mediated by vhs (Finnen et al. 2014) , whose endoribonuclease activity is required to disrupt SG formation (Finnen et al. 2016) . HSV-2 vhs indeed have the ability to localize to SG (Finnen et al. 2016) (Fig. 3B ). This implies that removal of RNA from SG promotes its disassembly and that intact RNA is crucial for maintaining SG structure. It will be interesting to test the function of endoribonucleases in SG disassembly. Vaccinia virus (VV) sequesters crucial translation initiation factors, such as G3BP1, Caprin1, eIF4E, PABP and eIF4G (Katsafanas and Moss 2007; Simpson-Holley et al. 2011; Zaborowska et al. 2012) , within cytoplasmic viral DNA factories to utilize SG components for different purposes (Fig. 3B) . A recent study (Meng and Xiang 2019) suggested that the RNA granules are resulted from untranslated mRNA accumulation in viral DNA factories (Liu and Moss 2016) and TIA-1 is probably not required for granule formation and antipoxviruses. Instead, the granules formation is most likely driven by an array of RNA-protein interactions and requires no specific SG components (Sivan et al. 2018; Meng and Xiang 2019) .

Assembly of P-Bodies (PB) PB were first reported in the scientific literature by Bashkirov et al. in 1997, and described as ''small granules or discrete, prominent foci'' or as the cytoplasmic location of the mouse exoribonuclease mXrn1p (Bashkirov et al. 1997) . Like SG, PB lack outer lipid membrane and now are recognized to be the sites where non-translating mRNAs accumulate for different fates including decay, storage, or returning to translation. A variety of enzymes involved in mRNA deadenylation (Ccr1, Caf1, Not1) (Sheth and Parker 2006) , decapping (Dcp1/2, Lsm1-7, Edc3proteins) (Ingelfinger et al. 2002; Yu et al. 2005) , nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) proteins (SMG5-6-7, UPF1) (Ingelfinger et al. 2002; Durand et al. 2007) , in addition to scaffolding proteins (Ge-1/Hedls) (Yu et al. 2005) and translation control factors (CPEB, eIF4E-T) (Andrei et al. 2005; Wilczynska et al. 2005) , are the components of PB and used as routine markers to distinguish these granules. Nonetheless, some components (APOBEC3G, BRF1, DDX3, FAST, TTP, Rap55) (McEwen et al. 2005; Sen and Blau 2005; Gallois-Montbrun et al. 2007; Chen et al. 2008) have also been shown to be shared by both SG and PB, suggesting a substantial linkage of these two structures and movement of mRNAs between both RNA granules. Interestingly, among these components, PB also include RNAinduced silencing complex (RISC) or miRNA associated argonaute (Ago) proteins (also shared with SG) and the GW182 protein which provides scaffolding activities for RISC to function, suggesting PB being the sites of miRNA mediated translation repression. The scaffolding activity of GW182 is critical for PB and knockdown of GW182 expression disrupts PB formation (Liu et al. 2005) . Notably, GW182 has been shown to bind to Ago2 which is critical for miRNA function and PB formation (Liu et al. 2005) . Recent evidence indicates that GW182 can recruit up to three molecules of Ago2 via its three GW motifs (glycine-tryptophan repeats) while each Ago protein has a single GW182-binding site (Elkayam et al. 2017) (Fig. 4) .

By applying fluorescence-activated particle sorting to purify PB in combination with mass spectrometry, Hubstenberger et al. identified 125 proteins that are significantly associated with PB (Hubstenberger et al. 2017) . By labeling several PB-localized proteins with a BirA (E. coli biotin ligase) enzyme in combination with mass spectrometry after streptavidin pulldown, Youn et al. identified 38 proteins in the PB (Youn et al. 2018) . ISGs (interferon stimulated genes) can also be found in PB during virus infection (Hebner et al. 2006) .

In comparison to viral regulation of SG, interaction of virus and PB was not much explored. It is an assumption that RNA viruses must regulate RNA decay processes/machinery to prevent degradation of virus genomes and mRNAs. Recently, some progress has been made to understand the relationship between PB components and some viruses in the context of viral gene expression. The data in published literatures are summarized in (Table 2) . Mutation induced in the PB core components to affect the viral life cycles are well studied and tabulated in an earlier review (Beckham et al. 2007) . The report linking the assembly of yeast Ty3 retrotransposons virus-like particles with PB presented the first link between human retrovirus and PB (Checkley et al. 2010) . The later study revealed PB to be the site of anti-viral host factors APO-BEC3G and APOBEC3F (A3G or A3F, apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide 1-like) family of cytidine de-aminases, presumably representing a component of innate immunity against HIV (Wichroski et al. 2006; Gallois-Montbrun et al. 2007 ). In a different study, A3F was found to specifically interact with cellular signal recognition particle RNA (7SL RNA). Efficient packaging of 7SL RNA and A3F into HIV virons was mediated by the RNA-binding nucleocapsid domain of HIV-1 Gag (Wang et al. 2007 ).

The bona fide and unique dependence of viruses on PB came from the studies on plant brome mosaic virus (BMV) (Beckham et al. 2007 ). This study suggested the accumulation of BMV mRNAs in PB was an important step in RNA replication complex assembly for BMV, and possibly for other positive-strand RNA viruses. Nonetheless, many RNA viruses initiate the process of transcription of viral RNA by the process of 'cap snatching' which involves the acquisition of capped 5 0 oligonucleotides from cellular mRNAs. Interestingly, PB were shown to serve as a pool of primers in the case of Hantavirus while its nucleocapsid protein, which accumulates in PB, binds 5 0 caps with high affinity (Mir et al. 2008) .

The base-pair complementarity between a miRNA and a target mRNA dictates the miRNA to specifically repress posttranscriptional expression of mRNAs. Subsequent events in this process involve relocation of RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs) together with several other RNA binding proteins to form PB. In this context, HIV-1 mRNA interacts with RISC proteins and disrupting PB structures enhances viral production and infectivity, suggesting a role of PB against viral infection (Nathans et al. 2009 ). Specific miR-29a-HIV-1 mRNA interaction was found to enhance viral mRNA association with RISC and PB proteins and regulate HIV-1 production and infectivity. The translating mRNA can be stripped of ribosomes and the initiation complex can be collaps when binding to miRNA-RISC complex. The mRNPs targeted by PB components undergo three outcomes: 1.

Translational inhibition; 2. Pan2/3-mediated deadenylation; 3. RNA decay by other associated RNA decay factors (e.g., Xrn1, Dcp1a, DDX6, and Lsm). Several RNA and DNA viruses which inhibit PB assembly are shown. HIV Nef interacts with Ago2 via its glycine-tryptophan region and functions as a viral suppressor of RNAi (Aqil et al. 2013) . While overexpression of Mov10, a component of PB and an ATP-dependent 5 0 -3 0 RNA helicase, inhibits HIV production (Burdick et al. 2010; Furtak et al. 2010) , Mov10 and APOBEC3G localization to PB is not required for HIV virion incorporation and antiviral activity (Izumi et al. 2013) . It becomes clear that Mov10 inhibits virus infection by enhancing RIG-I-MAVS-Independent IFN Induction (Cuevas et al. 2016 ) and stabilizing A3G from degradation (Chen et al. 2017) .

The anticipated evidence of viral disruption of PB also came from the study with poliovirus (PV), a plus-strand RNA virus showing that PB are disrupted during PV infection in cells by 4 h post infection (Dougherty et al. 2011 ). This function is attributed to viral proteinase 3C which degrades several components of PB including Xrn1 and Dcp1a, but not affecting others such as GW182, Edc3 and Edc4. Rotaviruses disassemble PB by using viral RNA as a sponge for RNA binding proteins to redistribute several PB components, including Ago2, GW182 and Dcp1 PB (Oceguera et al. 2018) . In fact, rotavirus disrupts PB through multiple mechanisms. The viral NSP1 protein seems to degrade PB component Pan3, while relocalizing other two components (Xrn1 and Dcp1a) (Bhowmick et al. 2015) . Intriguingly, exclusion of SG and PB components from the viroplasm is important for rotavirus replication and progeny virus production (Dhillon and Rao 2018) .

While RNA viruses have evolved to co-opt or modulate the assembly of PB, this effect is rather unclear during infection by DNA viruses. Since most of the DNA viruses replicate and assemble in the nucleus, therefore as proposed for RNA viruses, accumulation of viral RNAs in PB for assembly cannot be a strategy required by DNA viruses. However, the close relationship of PB with translational repression reasonably provides a foundation for PB being antiviral cellular components against DNA viruses. Thus it is assumed that those factories suppressing mRNA translation would inhibit protein production of DNA viruses. To fight back, the DNA viruses have to develope strategies to bypass this antagonism mediated by PB for their survival and productive infection (Table 2) .

Adenovirus E4 11 k, the product of E4 ORF3, accumulates viral late mRNA transcripts and at least five proteins of PB (Rck/p54/DDX6, Ago2, xrn1, Ge1, and Lsm-1) in the E4 11 k-induced cytoplasmic aggresomes. Redistribution of the PB components to the aggresomes, not to the PB, leads to inactivate or destroy these proteins. E4 11 k protein interacts with RNA helicase DDX6, one of the PB proteins, for its redistribution. Because PB are the sites for mRNA degradation, their alteration by E4 11 k suggests a role of E4 11 k in viral late mRNA accumulation (Greer et al. 2011) .

The role of PB in regulation of cytomegalovirus infection remains elusive. First, HCMV infection does not affect, but rather accumulates the formation of PB; second, PB formed during HCMV infection do not contain Ago2; third, HCMV prevents viral IE1 mRNA, a major IE gene product to encode a critical protein for viral gene expression and replication, from colocalization with PB (Seto et al. 2014) .

By generating a transgenic mice deficient of PB component LSm14A (or Rap55), recent studies showed that LSm14A plays a critical and specific role in the induction of antiviral cytokines (IFN-b, IFN-a, and IL-6) in dendritic cells (DCs). DNA viruses (HSV-1 and murine herpesvirus 68) and RNA virus VSV trigger this induction, but Sendai virus lacks such an effect (Anderson and Kedersha 2009; . LSm14A deficiency specifically downregulates MITA/STING (stimulator of interferon genes) level in DCs by impairing its nuclear mRNA precursor processing. In contrast to its role in mRNA decay, this study revealed a role of LSm14 in nuclear mRNA precursor processing and cell-specific regulatory mechanism of antiviral immune responses .

KSHV kaposin B, a latent protein linked with cancer progression, induces PB dispersion (Corcoran et al. 2015) . Kaposin B activates the stress-responsive kinase MK2 in endothelial cells (ECs) to selectively block the decay of AU-rich mRNAs (ARE-mRNAs) which encode pro-inflammatory cytokines and angiogenic factors and to reprogram ECs through post-transcriptional control of EC gene expression and secretion. KSHV ORF57 protein inhibits the formation of PB during lytic infection by disrupting the essential interaction of Ago2 with GW182 (unpublished data). These data provide the first evidence that a tumor virus RNA-binding protein ORF57 antagonizes the RNA regulatory pathway of host antiviral defenses during lytic infection.

SG are highly dynamic structures , which constantly exchange their components to regulate gene expression and are thought to be antiviral. SG composition appears to vary according to the inducing stimulus (Table 3) . It's clear that SG assembly/disassembly is a tightly regulated process which accompanies rearrangements of RNA and proteins . Although significant advances have been made to understand how viruses regulate SG formation, our current knowledge is not suffucient to fully elucidate the machanism how SG are regulated in living cells. Further works are needed to address the following questions: First, is there any pathway to be a target for antiviral drug development? Second, do SG function as platforms that potentiate virus recognition? Third, is any unexplored pathway leading to SG formation which could be visualized by fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques-including single molecule RNA tracking methods in combination with super-resolution microscopy? Using viruses as a research tool will definitely teach us how the host fights virus infections and how the viruses get away from its host resistance.

PB affect viral infections in multiple ways. Thus, it is difficult to generalize a common viral strategy in a particular virus group to interact with the components of PB. The noticed evidence is that viruses in the same family may show extremely distant behavior when they come to interact with PB (Table 2 ). More studies on virus interactions with PB will be required to characterize the PB to be proviral or antiviral in a context-dependent manner.

Other key questions in the field for future studies are: (1) to understand the mechanisms that regulate PB formation in cells. Viral manipulation of PB may provide a better platform to understand this regulation; (2) to determine which viral RNA species preferentially travel through these RNA granules and which ones do not? (3) to identify the RNA elements dictating viral RNA to escape from SG and PB. Thus, discovery of virus regulations of PB assembly represents a new paradigm of virus-host interactions. (1ZIASC010357 to ZMZ).

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Moloney leukemia virus 10 (MOV10) inhibits the degradation of APOBEC3G through interference with the Vifmediated ubiquitin-proteasome pathway

Protein phosphatase 1 subunit Ppp1r15a/GADD34 regulates cytokine production in polyinosinic:polycytidylic acidstimulated dendritic cells

Viral activation of MK2-hsp27-p115RhoGEF-RhoA signaling axis causes cytoskeletal rearrangements, p-body disruption and ARE-mRNA stabilization

MOV10 provides antiviral activity against RNA viruses by enhancing RIG-I-MAVSindependent IFN induction

Eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha-independent pathway of stress granule induction by the natural product pateamine A

The herpes simplex virus virion host shutoff protein enhances translation of viral true late mrnas independently of suppressing protein kinase R and stress granule formation

P-bodies and stress granules: possible roles in the control of translation and mRNA degradation

Activation of GCN2 in UV-irradiated cells inhibits translation

Rotavirus induces formation of remodeled stress granules and P bodies and their sequestration in viroplasms to promote progeny virus production

Induction of stress granule-like structures in vesicular stomatitis virus-infected cells

Poliovirus-mediated disruption of cytoplasmic processing bodies

Inhibition of nonsensemediated mRNA decay (NMD) by a new chemical molecule reveals the dynamic of NMD factors in P-bodies

Multivalent recruitment of human argonaute by GW182

Interaction of TIA-1/TIAR with West Nile and dengue virus products in infected cells interferes with stress granule formation and processing body assembly

P-body formation is a consequence, not the cause, of RNAmediated gene silencing

Herpes simplex virus 2 infection impacts stress granule accumulation

The herpes simplex virus 2 virion-associated ribonuclease vhs interferes with stress granule formation

Herpes simplex virus 2 virion host shutoff endoribonuclease activity is required to disrupt stress granule formation

Inactivation of the mTORC1-eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E pathway alters stress granule formation

and OGT sequestration into viral inclusion bodies in cells infected with human respiratory syncytial virus suppresses MK2 activities and stress granule assembly

Formation of nsP3-specific protein complexes during Sindbis virus replication

Selenite targets eIF4E-binding protein-1 to inhibit translation initiation and induce the assembly of non-canonical stress granules

Production of a dominant-negative fragment due to G3BP1 cleavage contributes to the disruption of mitochondria-associated protective stress granules during CVB3 infection

Perturbation of the P-body component Mov10 inhibits HIV-1 infectivity

Antiviral protein APOBEC3G localizes to ribonucleoprotein complexes found in P bodies and stress granules

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) induces formation of stress granules whose proteins regulate HCV RNA replication and virus assembly and egress

The dsRNA protein kinase PKR: virus and cell control

Stress granule assembly is mediated by prion-like aggregation of TIA-1

Different types of nsP3-containing protein complexes in Sindbis virusinfected cells

The adenovirus E4 11 k protein binds and relocalizes the cytoplasmic P-body component Ddx6 to aggresomes

NSs protein of rift valley fever virus induces the specific degradation of the double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase

Regulated translation initiation controls stress-induced gene expression in mammalian cells

Perk is essential for translational regulation and cell survival during the unfolded protein response

Human papillomaviruses target the double-stranded RNA protein kinase pathway

RNA dimerization promotes PKR dimerization and activation

Protein expression redirects vesicular stomatitis virus RNA synthesis to cytoplasmic inclusions

Inclusion bodies are a site of ebolavirus replication

Virusinduced translational arrest through 4EBP1/2-dependent decay of 5 0 -TOP mRNAs restricts viral infection

Zika virus hijacks stress granule proteins and modulates the host stress response

Inclusion bodies of human parainfluenza virus type 3 inhibit antiviral stress granule formation by shielding viral RNAs

P-Body purification reveals the condensation of repressed mRNA regulons

Feline calicivirus infection disrupts assembly of cytoplasmic stress granules and induces G3BP1 cleavage

Rift Valley fever virus NSs protein promotes posttranscriptional downregulation of protein kinase PKR and inhibits eIF2alpha phosphorylation

The human LSm1-7 proteins colocalize with the mRNA-degrading enzymes Dcp1/2 and Xrnl in distinct cytoplasmic foci

Sendai virus trailer RNA binds TIAR, a cellular protein involved in virus-induced apoptosis

Human cytomegalovirus infection activates and regulates the unfolded protein response

Disruption of microtubules inhibits cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein stress granule formation

Stress granules and processing bodies in translational control

Mov10 and APOBEC3G localization to processing bodies is not required for virion incorporation and antiviral activity

The mechanism of eukaryotic translation initiation and principles of its regulation

ATPase-modulated stress granules contain a diverse proteome and substructure

NEDDylation promotes stress granule assembly

Colocalization of transcription and translation within cytoplasmic poxvirus factories coordinates viral expression and subjugates host functions

Stress granules: sites of mRNA triage that regulate mRNA stability and translatability

RNAbinding proteins TIA-1 and TIAR link the phosphorylation of eIF-2 alpha to the assembly of mammalian stress granules

Dynamic shuttling of TIA-1 accompanies the recruitment of mRNA to mammalian stress granules

Stress granules and processing bodies are dynamically linked sites of mRNP remodeling

Real-time and quantitative imaging of mammalian stress granules and processing bodies

Stress granules and cell signaling: more than just a passing phase?

G3BP-Caprin1-USP10 complexes mediate stress granule condensation and associate with 40S subunits

Influenza A virus inhibits cytoplasmic stress granule formation

Modulation of stress granules and P bodies during dicistrovirus infection

The function of GADD34 is a recovery from a shutoff of protein synthesis induced by ER stress: elucidation by GADD34-deficient mice

Functional characterization of Negri bodies (NBs) in rabies virus-infected cells: evidence that NBs are sites of viral transcription and replication

Ebola virus VP35 blocks stress granule assembly

Poly(ADP-ribose) regulates stress responses and microRNA activity in the cytoplasm

Cell proteins TIA-1 and TIAR interact with the 3 0 stem-loop of the West Nile virus complementary minus-strand RNA and facilitate virus replication

Molecular basis for PKR activation by PACT or dsRNA

Respiratory syncytial virus induces host RNA stress granules to facilitate viral replication

Activation of protein kinase R is required for induction of stress granules by respiratory syncytial virus but dispensable for viral replication

Junin virus infection impairs stress-granule formation in Vero cells treated with arsenite via inhibition of eIF2alpha phosphorylation

Opposing roles of double-stranded RNA effector pathways and viral defense proteins revealed with CRISPR-Cas9 Knockout cell lines and vaccinia virus mutants

MicroRNA-dependent localization of targeted mRNAs to mammalian P-bodies

LSm14A plays a critical role in antiviral immune responses by regulating MITA level in a cell-specific manner

Expression of poly(A)-binding protein is upregulated during recovery from heat shock in HeLa cells

Both G3BP1 and G3BP2 contribute to stress granule formation

Inhibition of ribosome recruitment induces stress granule formation independently of eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha phosphorylation

Translation inhibition and stress granules in the antiviral immune response

Heme-regulated inhibitor kinase-mediated phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 inhibits translation, induces stress granule formation, and mediates survival upon arsenite exposure

Importance of eIF2alpha phosphorylation and stress granule assembly in alphavirus translation regulation

RNA granules associated with SAMD9-mediated poxvirus restriction are similar to antiviral granules in composition but do not require TIA1 for poxvirus restriction

Storage of cellular 5 0 mRNA caps in P bodies for viral capsnatching

The NS1 protein of influenza A virus interacts with cellular processing bodies and stress granules through RNA-associated protein 55 (RAP55) during virus infection

Rotavirus infection induces the phosphorylation of eIF2alpha but prevents the formation of stress granules

Inhibition of stress granule formation by middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus 4a accessory protein facilitates viral translation, leading to efficient virus replication

0 -triphosphate-dependent activation of PKR by RNAs with short stem-loops

Cellular microRNA and P bodies modulate host-HIV-1 interactions

Ebola virus does not induce stress granule formation during infection and sequesters stress granule proteins within viral inclusions

Encephalomyocarditis virus disrupts stress granules, the critical platform for triggering antiviral innate immune responses

Rabies virus infection induces the formation of stress granules closely connected to the viral factories

Rotavirus RNAs sponge host cell RNA binding proteins and interfere with their subcellular localization

Stress granule formation induced by measles virus is protein kinase PKR dependent and impaired by RNA adenosine deaminase ADAR1

Critical role of an antiviral stress granule containing RIG-I and PKR in viral detection and innate immunity

Mechanistic insights into mammalian stress granule dynamics

PACT, a stressmodulated cellular activator of interferon-induced doublestranded RNA-activated protein kinase, PKR

Dynamic interaction of stress granules, DDX3X, and IKK-alpha mediates multiple functions in hepatitis C virus infection

Who regulates whom? an overview of RNA granules and viral infections

Principles and properties of stress granules

Middle east respiratory coronavirus accessory protein 4a inhibits PKRmediated antiviral stress responses

HIV-1 Gag co-opts a cellular complex containing DDX6, a helicase that facilitates capsid assembly

Stress granules regulate double-stranded RNAdependent protein kinase activation through a complex containing G3BP1 and Caprin1

Functional organization of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in cells infected by respiratory syncytial virus

Protein kinase R is responsible for the phosphorylation of eIF2alpha in rotavirus infection

Activation of stress response pathways promotes formation of antiviral granules and restricts virus replication

Dynamic oscillation of translation and stress granule formation mark the cellular response to virus infection

The virion host shutoff RNase plays a key role in blocking the activation of protein kinase R in cells infected with herpes simplex virus 1

Argonaute 2/RISC resides in sites of mammalian mRNA decay known as cytoplasmic bodies

Processing bodies accumulate in human cytomegalovirus-infected cells and do not affect viral replication at high multiplicity of infection

KSHV inhibits stress granule formation by viral ORF57 blocking PKR activation

Targeting of aberrant mRNAs to cytoplasmic processing bodies

An RNA pseudoknot is required for production of yellow fever virus subgenomic RNA by the host nuclease XRN1

Formation of antiviral cytoplasmic granules during orthopoxvirus infection

Human host range restriction of the vaccinia virus C7/K1 double deletion mutant is mediated by an atypical mode of translation inhibition

Poly(A)-binding protein (PABP): a common viral target

Sindbis virus usurps the cellular HuR protein to stabilize its transcripts and promote productive infections in mammalian and mosquito cells

Phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 mediates apoptosis in response to activation of the double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase

Relationship of GW/P-bodies with stress granules

ZBP1 regulates mRNA stability during cellular stress

Sendai virus C protein plays a role in restricting PKR activation by limiting the generation of intracellular double-stranded RNA

RNA granules: the good, the bad and the ugly

Regulation of PKR by HCV IRES RNA: importance of domain II and NS5A

The RasGAP-associated endoribonuclease G3BP assembles stress granules

Arginine demethylation of G3BP1 promotes stress granule assembly

Blocking double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase PKR by Japanese encephalitis virus nonstructural protein 2A

Foot-and-mouth disease virus leader protease cleaves G3BP1 and G3BP2 and inhibits stress granule formation

The mRNA cap-binding protein eIF4E in post-transcriptional gene expression

7SL RNA mediates virion packaging of the antiviral cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G

Quantitative mass spectrometry of DENV-2 RNA-interacting proteins reveals that the DEAD-box RNA helicase DDX6 binds the DB1 and DB2 3 0 UTR structures

The histidyl-tRNA synthetaserelated sequence in the eIF-2 alpha protein kinase GCN2 interacts with tRNA and is required for activation in response to starvation for different amino acids

Distinct stages in stress granule assembly and disassembly

Regulation of stress granules in virus systems

Inhibition of cytoplasmic mRNA stress granule formation by a viral proteinase

Human retroviral host restriction factors APOBEC3G and APOBEC3F localize to mRNA processing bodies

The translational regulator CPEB1 provides a link between dcp1 bodies and stress granules

Viral double-stranded RNAs from vaccinia virus early or intermediate gene transcripts possess PKR activating function, resulting in NF-kappaB activation, when the K1 protein is absent or mutated

Dengue virus infection induces formation of G3BP1 granules in human lung epithelial cells

Picornavirus 2A protease regulates stress granule formation to facilitate viral translation

Foot-and-mouth disease virus counteracts on internal ribosome entry site suppression by G3BP1 and Inhibits G3BP1-mediated stress granule assembly via post-translational mechanisms

High-density proximity mapping reveals the subcellular organization of mRNA-associated granules and bodies

Ge-1 is a central component of the mammalian cytoplasmic mRNA processing body

Recruitment of host translation initiation factor eIF4G by the vaccinia virus ssDNA-binding protein I3

Human cytomegalovirus pTRS1 and pIRS1 antagonize protein kinase R To facilitate virus replication

mTOR: from growth signal integration to cancer, diabetes and ageing

Acknowledgements This work was supported by grants from the China Natural Science Foundation (81825015 and 31630086), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province Innovation Group (2017CFA022), and Intramural Research Program of NCI/NIH