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. 2015 Jun 18;6:594. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00594

Table 2.

Nuclear-resident proteins involved in picornavirus translation.

Nuclear-resident protein Picornavirus IRES type Effect References
Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 (PTBP1) I, II, III Promotes translation through stabilization of IRES structure Jang and Wimmer, 1990; Luz and Beck, 1991; Chang et al., 1993; Hellen et al., 1993; Kaminski et al., 1995; Kolupaeva et al., 1996; Niepmann, 1996; Pestova et al., 1996; Hunt and Jackson, 1999; Gosert et al., 2000a; Song et al., 2005; Kafasla et al., 2009, 2010; Verma et al., 2010; Kafasla et al., 2011
Lupus La protein (La) I, II, III Stimulates translation from Type I and Type II IRESs; suppresses translation from Type III IRES structures Meerovitch et al., 1989, 1993; Craig et al., 1997; Kim and Jang, 1999; Ray and Das, 2002; Costa-Mattioli et al., 2004; Cordes et al., 2008
Poly(rC)-binding protein 2 (PCBP2) I, III Stimulates translation from Type I and Type III IRESs but does not bind Type III IRES element Blyn et al., 1995, 1996; Gamarnik and Andino, 1997; Parsley et al., 1997; Graff et al., 1998; Zell et al., 2008a,b; Sean et al., 2009; Sweeney et al., 2014
Serine/arginine-rich splicing factor 3 (SRSF3 or SRp20) I Acts synergistically with PCBP2 to increase efficiency of poliovirus translation Bedard et al., 2007; Fitzgerald and Semler, 2011
Proliferation-associated protein 2G4 (PA2G4 or EBP1) II Necessary for FMDV translation but not required for TMEV or EMCV translation Pilipenko et al., 2000; Monie et al., 2007
Nucleolin I Stimulates translation Waggoner and Sarnow, 1998; Izumi et al., 2001
Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 (hnRNP A1) I Interacts with EV71 IRES, depletion results in reduced reporter gene translation Lin et al., 2009b
Far upstream element-binding protein 1 (FBP1) I Interacts with EV71 IRES Huang et al., 2011
KH domain-containing, RNA-binding, signal transduction-associated protein 1 (Sam68) II Promotes FMDV translation Lawrence et al., 2012
Double-stranded RNA binding protein 76 (DRBP76) I Heterodimerizes with nuclear factor of activated T-cells, 45 KDa (NF45) and inhibits HRV 2 translation Merrill et al., 2006; Merrill and Gromeier, 2006
Far-upstream element-binding protein 2 (FBP2) I Inhibits EV71 IRES-driven translation Lin et al., 2009a; Chen et al., 2013
AU-rich binding factor 1 (AUF1 or hnRNP D0) I Binds IRES element and inhibits translation Cathcart et al., 2013; Wong et al., 2013; Lin et al., 2014
Gem-associated protein 5 (Gemin5) II Likely inhibits FMDV translation through competitive inhibition of PTBP1 binding Piñeiro et al., 2013