Virus-host protein-protein interactions of mycobacteriophage Giles

Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 28;7(1):16514. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16303-7.

Abstract

Mycobacteriophage are viruses that infect mycobacteria. More than 1,400 mycobacteriophage genomes have been sequenced, coding for over one hundred thousand proteins of unknown functions. Here we investigate mycobacteriophage Giles-host protein-protein interactions (PPIs) using yeast two-hybrid screening (Y2H). A total of 25 reproducible PPIs were found for a selected set of 10 Giles proteins, including a putative virion assembly protein (gp17), the phage integrase (gp29), the endolysin (gp31), the phage repressor (gp47), and six proteins of unknown function (gp34, gp35, gp54, gp56, gp64, and gp65). We note that overexpression of the proteins is toxic to M. smegmatis, although whether this toxicity and the associated changes in cellular morphology are related to the putative interactions revealed in the Y2H screen is unclear.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism*
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions*
  • Mycobacteriophages / physiology*
  • Mycobacterium / metabolism*
  • Mycobacterium / virology*
  • Phenotype
  • Protein Interaction Mapping*
  • Protein Interaction Maps
  • Two-Hybrid System Techniques
  • Viral Proteins / genetics
  • Viral Proteins / metabolism*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Viral Proteins