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SARS-CoV-2 NSP13 interacts with TEAD to suppress Hippo-YAP signaling.

Fansen Meng | Jong Hwan Kim | Chang-Ru Tsai | Jeffrey D Steimle | Jun Wang | Yufeng Shi | Rich G Li | Bing Xie | Vaibhav Deshmukh | Shijie Liu | Xiao Li | James F Martin
eLife | 2025

The Hippo pathway controls organ development, homeostasis, and regeneration primarily by modulating YAP/TEAD-mediated gene expression. Although emerging studies report Hippo-YAP dysfunction after viral infection, it is largely unknown in the context of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Here, we analyzed RNA sequencing data from human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) and SARS-CoV-2-infected human lung samples, and observed a decrease in YAP target gene expression. In screening SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural proteins, we found that nonstructural protein 13 (NSP13), a conserved coronavirus helicase, inhibits YAP transcriptional activity independent of the upstream Hippo kinases LATS1/2. Consistently, introducing NSP13 into mouse cardiomyocytes suppresses an active form of YAP (YAP5SA) in vivo. Subsequent investigations on NSP13 mutants revealed that NSP13 helicase activity, including DNA binding and unwinding, is crucial for suppressing YAP transactivation in HEK293T cells. Mechanistically, TEAD4 serves as a platform to recruit NSP13 and YAP. NSP13 likely inactivates the YAP/TEAD4 transcription complex by remodeling chromatin to recruit proteins, such as transcription termination factor 2 (TTF2), to bind the YAP/TEAD/NSP13 complex. These findings reveal a novel YAP/TEAD regulatory mechanism and uncover molecular insights into Hippo-YAP regulation after SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans.

Pubmed ID: 40985618

Associated grants

  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: K99 HL169742
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R00 HL169742
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL118761
  • Agency: American Heart Association,
    Id: 903411
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: HL118761
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL127717
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: HL130804
  • Agency: American Heart Association,
    Id: 903651
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 HL130804
  • Agency: NHLBI NIH HHS, United States
    Id: HL127717
  • Agency: American Heart Association,
    Id: 10.58275/AHA.24CDA1274610.pc.gr.193655

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