Involvement of SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins in immunopathogenesis. 2024

Hayato Ito, and Tomokazu Tamura, and Lei Wang, and Kento Mori, and Masumi Tsuda, and Rigel Suzuki, and Saori Suzuki, and Kumiko Yoshimatsu, and Shinya Tanaka, and Takasuke Fukuhara
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the largest single-stranded RNA virus known to date. Its genome contains multiple accessory protein genes that act against host immune responses but are not required for progeny virus production. The functions of the accessory proteins in the viral life cycle have been examined, but their involvement in viral pathogenicity remains unclear. Here, we investigated the roles of the accessory proteins in viral immunopathogenicity. To this end, recombinant SARS-CoV-2 possessing nonsense mutations in the seven accessory protein open reading frames (ORFs) (ORF3a, ORF3b, ORF6, ORF7a, ORF8, ORF9b, and ORF10) was de novo generated using an early pandemic SARS-CoV-2 strain as a backbone. We confirmed that the resultant virus (termed ORF3-10 KO) did not express accessory proteins in infected cells and retained the desired mutations in the viral genome. In cell culture, the ORF3-10 KO virus exhibited similar virus growth kinetics as the parental virus. In hamsters, ORF3-10 KO virus infection resulted in mild weight loss and reduced viral replication in the oral cavity and lung tissue. ORF3-10 KO virus infection led to mild inflammation, indicating that an inability to evade innate immune sensing because of a lack of accessory proteins impairs virus growth in vivo and results in quick elimination from the body. Overall, we showed that SARS-CoV-2 accessory proteins are involved in immunopathogenicity.

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