Systems Biology of Virus-Host Protein Interactions: From Hypothesis Generation to Mechanisms of Replication and Pathogenesis
Overview
Authors
Affiliations
As obligate intracellular parasites, all viruses must co-opt cellular machinery to facilitate their own replication. Viruses often co-opt these cellular pathways and processes through physical interactions between viral and host proteins. In addition to facilitating fundamental aspects of virus replication cycles, these virus-host protein interactions can also disrupt physiological functions of host proteins, causing disease that can be advantageous to the virus or simply a coincidence. Consequently, unraveling virus-host protein interactions can serve as a window into molecular mechanisms of virus replication and pathogenesis. Identifying virus-host protein interactions using unbiased systems biology approaches provides an avenue for hypothesis generation. This review highlights common systems biology approaches for identification of virus-host protein interactions and the mechanistic insights revealed by these methods. We also review conceptual innovations using comparative and integrative systems biology that can leverage global virus-host protein interaction data sets to more rapidly move from hypothesis generation to mechanism.
Microevolution and phylogenomic study of Respiratory Syncytial Virus type A.
Ahmad A, Majaz S, Saeed A, Noreen S, Abbas M, Khan B PLoS One. 2025; 20(2):e0319437.
PMID: 39999081 PMC: 11856557. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0319437.
On professional mutualism: a blueprint for early-career virologists.
Shah P J Virol. 2024; 99(1):e0115624.
PMID: 39679715 PMC: 11784414. DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01156-24.
A novel host restriction factor MRPS6 mediates the inhibition of PDCoV infection in HIEC-6 cells.
Jiang Y, Zhang G, Li L, Chen J, Hao P, Gao Z Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1381026.
PMID: 38919620 PMC: 11196785. DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1381026.
Exploring Viral-Host Protein Interactions as Antiviral Therapies: A Computational Perspective.
Idrees S, Chen H, Panth N, Paudel K, Hansbro P Microorganisms. 2024; 12(3).
PMID: 38543681 PMC: 10975578. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12030630.
The Archer and the Prey: The Duality of PAF1C in Antiviral Immunity.
Kenaston M, Shah P Viruses. 2023; 15(5).
PMID: 37243120 PMC: 10222983. DOI: 10.3390/v15051032.