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Microbiol."],"abstract":"<jats:p>The innate immune response controls the acute phase of virus infections; critical to this response is the induction of type I interferon (IFN) and resultant IFN-stimulated genes to establish an antiviral environment. One such gene, zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP), is a potent antiviral factor that inhibits replication of diverse RNA and DNA viruses by binding preferentially to CpG-rich viral RNA. ZAP restricts alphaviruses and the flavivirus Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) by inhibiting translation of their positive-sense RNA genomes. While ZAP residues important for RNA binding and CpG specificity have been identified by recent structural studies, their role in viral translation inhibition has yet to be characterized. Additionally, the ubiquitin E3 ligase tripartite motif-containing protein 25 (TRIM25) has recently been uncovered as a critical co-factor for ZAP\u2019s suppression of alphavirus translation. While TRIM25 RNA binding is required for efficient TRIM25 ligase activity, its importance in the context of ZAP translation inhibition remains unclear. Here, we characterized the effects of ZAP and TRIM25 RNA binding on translation inhibition in the context of the prototype alphavirus Sindbis virus (SINV) and JEV. To do so, we generated a series of ZAP and TRIM25 RNA binding mutants, characterized loss of their binding to SINV genomic RNA, and assessed their ability to interact with each other and to suppress SINV replication, SINV translation, and JEV translation. We found that mutations compromising general RNA binding of ZAP and TRIM25 impact their ability to restrict SINV replication, but mutations specifically targeting ZAP CpG-mediated RNA binding have a greater effect on SINV and JEV translation inhibition. Interestingly, ZAP-TRIM25 interaction is a critical determinant of JEV translation inhibition. 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