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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Modulation of host gene expression by the zinc finger antiviral protein.

Daniel Gonçalves-Carneiro, Emily Mastrocola, Xiao Lei, Paul D Bieniasz

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel Gonçalves-CarneiroDepartment of Infectious Disease, St Mary's Medical School, Imperial College London, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom.
Emily MastrocolaLaboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.
Xiao LeiLaboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0001-8641-7824
Paul D BieniaszLaboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065.ORCID 0000-0002-2368-3719

Funding

Center for Structural Biology of HIV RNAU54AI170660 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ALICE TELESNITSKY · 2022 to 2026
$32.1M
NIAID NIH HHS U54 AI170660
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) depletes nonself RNAs through recognition of their elevated CpG dinucleotide content. CpG dinucleotides are sparse in most endogenous mammalian mRNAs, but a subset might potentially be modulated by ZAP. While CpG frequency alone is insufficient to predict ZAP-regulation, we developed an algorithm using experimentally determined compositional features to predict which endogenous mRNAs may be ZAP-regulated. Using ZAP-knockout mice, we demonstrate that levels of many host mRNAs that are algorithmically predicted ZAP targets are indeed increased when ZAP is absent. ZAP is interferon-inducible, and we also identify genes that are downregulated by ZAP during an innate immune response. Many ZAP-regulated gene products are extracellular matrix or of nucleosome components, whose ZAP-mediated control is conserved in human cells. Overall, we provide a tool for the prediction of ZAP target genes and reveal host mRNAs that are ZAP-regulated.

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Gene Expression RegulationRNA-Binding ProteinsAlgorithmsAnimalsCpG IslandsHumansImmunity, InnateMiceMice, KnockoutRNA, MessengerZinc FingersRNA-Binding ProteinsRNA, MessengerZC3HAV1 protein, humanCpG dinucleotidesmRNAviruszinc finger antiviral protein

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PMID40146858
PMCPMC12002351

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