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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2021 Feb 28;42:635–686. doi: 10.21775/cimb.042.635

Table 1.

Alphapherpesvirus innate immune evasion strategies.

Immune evasion strategy Virus Viral Protein Functional consequence Reference(s)
Degradation HSV-1 vhs Degradation of ZAP, viperin, IFI16, cGAS mRNA (Shen et al., 2014; Su et al., 2015; Orzalli et al., 2016) (Su and Zheng, 2017)
ICP0 Degradation of MyD88, Mal (van Lint et al., 2010)
HSV-1, HSV-2 ICP0 Degradation of IFI16, ND10 components, DNA-PKcs, NF-κB p50 (Parkinson et al., 1999; Boutell et al., 2003; Orzalli et al., 2012; Cuchet-Lourenco et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2013; Diner et al., 2015b)
BHV-1 ICP0 Degradation of IRF3 (Saira et al., 2007)
VZV ORF61p Degradation of IRF3 (Zhu et al., 2011)
PRV pUL50 Degradation of IFNAR1 (Zhang et al., 2017)
PTM HSV-1 pUL37 Deamidation of cGAS (Zhang et al., 2018)
pUL36 Deubiquitination of TRAF3, IKKα (Wang et al., 2013a) (Ye et al., 2017)
pUS3 Atypical IRF3, NF-κB p65 phosphorylation (Wang et al., 2013b; Wang et al., 2014)
Hyperphosphorylation, deacetylation prevention of HDAC1/2 (Poon et al., 2006; Walters et al., 2010; Shapira et al., 2016)
VZV ORF47p Atypical IRF3 phosphorylation (Vandevenne et al., 2011)
ORF66p Hyperphosphorylation of HDAC1/2 (Walters et al., 2009)
Molecular sink, sequestration FHV-1 pUS3 Kinase-independent prevention of IRF3 dimerization (Tian et al., 2018)
HSV-1 pUS11 Binding of PKR, RIG-I, and MDA5 (Peters et al., 2002) (Xing et al., 2012)
VP22 Binding of cGAS, prevention of AIM2 inflammasome formation (Huang et al., 2018) (Maruzuru et al., 2018)
pUL46 Binding of STING, TBK-1 (Deschamps and Kalamvoki, 2017)
Molecular sink, sequestration HSV-1 ICP27 Binding of TBK-1 Christensen et al., 2016
γ134.5 Binding of TBK-1 Verpooten et al., 2009)
ICP0 Sequestration of IRF3, CBP/p300 in subnuclear puncta (Melroe et al., 2007)
VP24 Binding of IRF3 (Zhang et al., 2016)
VP16 Binding of IRF3, CBP, NF-κB p65 (Xing et al., 2013)
pUL36 Binding of IFNAR2 (Yuan et al., 2018)
Unknown pUL13 Attenuation of CXCL9 expression (Koyanagi et al., 2017)
Unknown pUS3 Inhibition of TLR3 expression (Peri et al., 2008)
Unknown VZV IE62 Prevention of IRF3 phosphorylation, independent of binding TBK-1, IRF3 (Sen et al., 2010)
Unknown PRV gE, gI Attenuate IFNα expression (Lamote et al., 2017)