A novel accessory gene product of tick-borne Dhori-Orthomyxovirus, encoded by overlooked spliced transcripts of RNA segment 6

Dhori virus (DHOV) (Orthomyxoviridae, genus: Thogotovirus) is a tick-borne virus with a segmented, negative-sense RNA genome. Thogotoviruses can be divided into two clades, Thogoto-like and Dhori-like viruses, which differ in their coding strategy of the segment 6 encoded matrix protein (M): Thogoto...

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Hauptverfasser: Bendl, Elias (VerfasserIn) , Lampo, G. (VerfasserIn) , Chlanda, Petr (VerfasserIn) , Schnettler, E. (VerfasserIn) , Kochs, G. (VerfasserIn) , Dengjel, J. (VerfasserIn) , Graf, L. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oct 2025
In: Journal of virology
Year: 2025, Jahrgang: 99, Heft: 10, Pages: 1-30
ISSN:1098-5514
DOI:10.1128/jvi.00600-25
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00600-25
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Verfasserangaben:E. Bendl, G. Lampo, P. Chlanda, E. Schnettler, G. Kochs, J. Dengjel, L. Graf

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520 |a Dhori virus (DHOV) (Orthomyxoviridae, genus: Thogotovirus) is a tick-borne virus with a segmented, negative-sense RNA genome. Thogotoviruses can be divided into two clades, Thogoto-like and Dhori-like viruses, which differ in their coding strategy of the segment 6 encoded matrix protein (M): Thogoto viruses translate M from spliced transcripts and a long M (ML) from unspliced transcripts. Dhori-like viruses encode their M using unspliced transcripts, whereas no splicing or additional coding capacity has been described, yet. Here, we identified spliced transcripts of segment 6 in DHOV-infected cells by RT-PCR and sequencing. The gene product M2-248 codes for a truncated, 186 amino acids-long N-terminal moiety of M fused to 62 C-terminal amino acids from a -1 shifted reading frame. The splicing sites and the amino acid sequences of the C-terminal M2 part are conserved in Dhori-like viruses. Expression of M2-248 was confirmed in infected cells by mass spectrometry and western blot analysis and was detected in purified virions. Recombinant DHOV(Delta M2) lacking M2-248 showed reduced virulence compared with recombinant wild-type in mice but no attenuation in cell culture and no effect on virion assembly and morphology. An interferon antagonistic function of M2-248, similar to THOV ML, was excluded. Thus, our data suggest that DHOV segment 6 splicing and expression of M2-248 protein affect virulence in mammals by a mechanism distinct from THOV-ML. It remains to be analyzed how M2-248 might affect viral host switch and replication in ticks.IMPORTANCEDhori and Thogoto viruses are tick-transmitted orthomyxoviruses comprising two clades differing in the coding strategy of their matrix protein. The recent detection of Dhori-like Bourbon virus (BRBV) highlighted their zoonotic potential. M of Dhori-like viruses is translated from a collinear transcript of the smallest of the six genomic ssRNA segments. Thogoto-like viruses express M from spliced transcripts, and unspliced transcripts encode an extended ML protein. No analogous splicing event or additional gene product has been characterized for Dhori-like viruses, yet. Here, we describe the hitherto overlooked splicing of segment 6 transcripts of Dhori virus. The 5'-part of the processed transcript is collinear with the M-ORF, whereas splicing shifts it into a -1 frame. The predicted product M2-248 was detected in infected cells. Recombinant Dhori virus lacking M2 was attenuated in vivo, whereas replication in mammalian cells was not impaired, suggesting a modulatory function of M2 in in vivo-specific, cellular immunity-related processes. 
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