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Dunn LEM, Birkenheuer CH, Baines JD. A Revision of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Transcription: First, Repress; Then, Express. Microorganisms 2024; 12:262. [PMID: 38399666 PMCID: PMC10892140 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12020262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Revised: 01/22/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024] Open
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The herpes virus genome bears more than 80 strong transcriptional promoters. Upon entry into the host cell nucleus, these genes are transcribed in an orderly manner, producing five immediate-early (IE) gene products, including ICP0, ICP4, and ICP22, while non-IE genes are mostly silent. The IE gene products are necessary for the transcription of temporal classes following sequentially as early, leaky late, and true late. A recent analysis using precision nuclear run-on followed by deep sequencing (PRO-seq) has revealed an important step preceding all HSV-1 transcription. Specifically, the immediate-early proteins ICP4 and ICP0 enter the cell with the incoming genome to help preclude the nascent antisense, intergenic, and sense transcription of all viral genes. VP16, which is also delivered into the nucleus upon entry, almost immediately reverses this repression on IE genes. The resulting de novo expression of ICP4 and ICP22 further repress antisense, intergenic, and early and late viral gene transcription through different mechanisms before the sequential de-repression of these gene classes later in infection. This early repression, termed transient immediate-early protein-mediated repression (TIEMR), precludes unproductive, antisense, intergenic, and late gene transcription early in infection to ensure the efficient and orderly progression of the viral cascade.
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- Laura E M Dunn
- Baker Institute for Animal Health, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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Romero N, Wuerzberger-Davis SM, Van Waesberghe C, Jansens RJ, Tishchenko A, Verhamme R, Miyamoto S, Favoreel HW. Pseudorabies Virus Infection Results in a Broad Inhibition of Host Gene Transcription. J Virol 2022; 96:e0071422. [PMID: 35730976 PMCID: PMC9278110 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00714-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Pseudorabies virus (PRV) is a porcine alphaherpesvirus that belongs to the Herpesviridae family. We showed earlier that infection of porcine epithelial cells with PRV triggers activation of the nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) pathway, a pivotal signaling axis in the early immune response. However, PRV-induced NF-κB activation does not lead to NF-κB-dependent gene expression. Here, using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs), we show that PRV does not disrupt the ability of NF-κB to interact with its κB target sites. Assessing basal cellular transcriptional activity in PRV-infected cells by quantitation of prespliced transcripts of constitutively expressed genes uncovered a broad suppression of cellular transcription by PRV, which also affects the inducible expression of NF-κB target genes. Host cell transcription inhibition was rescued when viral genome replication was blocked using phosphonoacetic acid (PAA). Remarkably, we found that host gene expression shutoff in PRV-infected cells correlated with a substantial retention of the NF-κB subunit p65, the TATA box binding protein, and RNA polymerase II-essential factors required for (NF-κB-dependent) gene transcription-in expanding PRV replication centers in the nucleus and thereby away from the host chromatin. This study reveals a potent mechanism used by the alphaherpesvirus PRV to steer the protein production capacity of infected cells to viral proteins by preventing expression of host genes, including inducible genes involved in mounting antiviral responses. IMPORTANCE Herpesviruses are highly successful pathogens that cause lifelong persistent infections of their host. Modulation of the intracellular environment of infected cells is imperative for the success of virus infections. We reported earlier that a DNA damage response in epithelial cells infected with the alphaherpesvirus pseudorabies virus (PRV) results in activation of the hallmark proinflammatory NF-κB signaling axis but, remarkably, that this activation does not lead to NF-κB-induced (proinflammatory) gene expression. Here, we report that PRV-mediated inhibition of host gene expression stretches beyond NF-κB-dependent gene expression and in fact reflects a broad inhibition of host gene transcription, which correlates with a substantial recruitment of essential host transcription factors in viral replication compartments in the nucleus, away from the host chromatin. These data uncover a potent alphaherpesvirus mechanism to interfere with production of host proteins, including proteins involved in antiviral responses.
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- Nicolás Romero
- Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Joseph R. Heath
- Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Genome replication affects transcription factor binding mediating the cascade of herpes simplex virus transcription. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:3734-3739. [PMID: 30808759 PMCID: PMC6397523 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1818463116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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In herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection, the coupling of genome replication and transcription regulation has been known for many years; however, the underlying mechanism has not been elucidated. We performed a comprehensive transcriptomic assessment and factor-binding analysis for Pol II, TBP, TAF1, and Sp1 to assess the effect genome replication has on viral transcription initiation and elongation. The onset of genome replication resulted in the binding of TBP, TAF1, and Pol II to previously silent late promoters. The viral transcription factor, ICP4, was continuously needed in addition to DNA replication for activation of late gene transcription initiation. Furthermore, late promoters contain a motif that closely matches the consensus initiator element (Inr), which robustly bound TAF1 postreplication. Continued DNA replication resulted in reduced binding of Sp1, TBP, and Pol II to early promoters. Therefore, the initiation of early gene transcription is attenuated following DNA replication. Herein, we propose a model for how viral DNA replication results in the differential utilization of cellular factors that function in transcription initiation, leading to the delineation of kinetic class in HSV-productive infection.
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Oncolytic virotherapy is a kind of antitumor therapy using viruses with natural or engineered tumor-selective replication to intentionally infect and kill tumor cells. An early clinical trial has been performed in the 1950s using wild-type and non-engineered in vitro-passaged virus strains and vaccine strains (first generation oncolytic viruses). Because of the advances in biotechnology and virology, the field of virotherapy has rapidly evolved over the past two decades and innovative recombinant selectivity-enhanced viruses (second generation oncolytic viruses). Nowadays, therapeutic transgene-delivering "armed" oncolytic viruses (third generation oncolytic viruses) have been engineered using many kinds of viruses. In this chapter, the history, mechanisms, rationality, and advantages of oncolytic virotherapy by herpes simplex virus (HSV) are mentioned. Past and ongoing clinical trials by oncolytic HSVs (G207, HSV1716, NV1020, HF10, Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC, OncoVEXGM-CSF)) are also summarized. Finally, the way of enhancement of oncolytic virotherapy by gene modification or combination therapy with radiation, chemotherapy, or immune checkpoint inhibitors are discussed.
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Kim SK, Shakya AK, O'Callaghan DJ. Full trans-activation mediated by the immediate-early protein of equine herpesvirus 1 requires a consensus TATA box, but not its cognate binding sequence. Virus Res 2015; 211:222-32. [PMID: 26541315 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.10.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2015] [Revised: 10/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/30/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The immediate-early protein (IEP) of equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) has extensive homology to the IEP of alphaherpesviruses and possesses domains essential for trans-activation, including an acidic trans-activation domain (TAD) and binding domains for DNA, TFIIB, and TBP. Our data showed that the IEP directly interacted with transcription factor TFIIA, which is known to stabilize the binding of TBP and TFIID to the TATA box of core promoters. When the TATA box of the EICP0 promoter was mutated to a nonfunctional TATA box, IEP-mediated trans-activation was reduced from 22-fold to 7-fold. The IEP trans-activated the viral promoters in a TATA motif-dependent manner. Our previous data showed that the IEP is able to repress its own promoter when the IEP-binding sequence (IEBS) is located within 26-bp from the TATA box. When the IEBS was located at 100 bp upstream of the TATA box, IEP-mediated trans-activation was very similar to that of the minimal IE(nt -89 to +73) promoter lacking the IEBS. As the distance from the IEBS to the TATA box decreased, IEP-mediated trans-activation progressively decreased, indicating that the IEBS located within 100 bp from the TATA box sequence functions as a distance-dependent repressive element. These results indicated that IEP-mediated full trans-activation requires a consensus TATA box of core promoters, but not its binding to the cognate sequence (IEBS).
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- Seong K Kim
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, United States.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, United States
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Kennedy PGE, Rovnak J, Badani H, Cohrs RJ. A comparison of herpes simplex virus type 1 and varicella-zoster virus latency and reactivation. J Gen Virol 2015; 96:1581-602. [PMID: 25794504 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.000128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1; human herpesvirus 1) and varicella-zoster virus (VZV; human herpesvirus 3) are human neurotropic alphaherpesviruses that cause lifelong infections in ganglia. Following primary infection and establishment of latency, HSV-1 reactivation typically results in herpes labialis (cold sores), but can occur frequently elsewhere on the body at the site of primary infection (e.g. whitlow), particularly at the genitals. Rarely, HSV-1 reactivation can cause encephalitis; however, a third of the cases of HSV-1 encephalitis are associated with HSV-1 primary infection. Primary VZV infection causes varicella (chickenpox) following which latent virus may reactivate decades later to produce herpes zoster (shingles), as well as an increasingly recognized number of subacute, acute and chronic neurological conditions. Following primary infection, both viruses establish a latent infection in neuronal cells in human peripheral ganglia. However, the detailed mechanisms of viral latency and reactivation have yet to be unravelled. In both cases latent viral DNA exists in an 'end-less' state where the ends of the virus genome are joined to form structures consistent with unit length episomes and concatemers, from which viral gene transcription is restricted. In latently infected ganglia, the most abundantly detected HSV-1 RNAs are the spliced products originating from the primary latency associated transcript (LAT). This primary LAT is an 8.3 kb unstable transcript from which two stable (1.5 and 2.0 kb) introns are spliced. Transcripts mapping to 12 VZV genes have been detected in human ganglia removed at autopsy; however, it is difficult to ascribe these as transcripts present during latent infection as early-stage virus reactivation may have transpired in the post-mortem time period in the ganglia. Nonetheless, low-level transcription of VZV ORF63 has been repeatedly detected in multiple ganglia removed as close to death as possible. There is increasing evidence that HSV-1 and VZV latency is epigenetically regulated. In vitro models that permit pathway analysis and identification of both epigenetic modulations and global transcriptional mechanisms of HSV-1 and VZV latency hold much promise for our future understanding in this complex area. This review summarizes the molecular biology of HSV-1 and VZV latency and reactivation, and also presents future directions for study.
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- Peter G E Kennedy
- 1Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Garscube Campus, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK
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- 2Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
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- 3Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Medical School, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- 3Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Medical School, Aurora, CO 80045, USA 4Department of Microbiology, University of Colorado Medical School, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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Transcription of the herpes simplex virus 1 genome during productive and quiescent infection of neuronal and nonneuronal cells. J Virol 2014; 88:6847-61. [PMID: 24719411 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00516-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) can undergo a productive infection in nonneuronal and neuronal cells such that the genes of the virus are transcribed in an ordered cascade. HSV-1 can also establish a more quiescent or latent infection in peripheral neurons, where gene expression is substantially reduced relative to that in productive infection. HSV mutants defective in multiple immediate early (IE) gene functions are highly defective for later gene expression and model some aspects of latency in vivo. We compared the expression of wild-type (wt) virus and IE gene mutants in nonneuronal cells (MRC5) and adult murine trigeminal ganglion (TG) neurons using the Illumina platform for cDNA sequencing (RNA-seq). RNA-seq analysis of wild-type virus revealed that expression of the genome mostly followed the previously established kinetics, validating the method, while highlighting variations in gene expression within individual kinetic classes. The accumulation of immediate early transcripts differed between MRC5 cells and neurons, with a greater abundance in neurons. Analysis of a mutant defective in all five IE genes (d109) showed dysregulated genome-wide low-level transcription that was more highly attenuated in MRC5 cells than in TG neurons. Furthermore, a subset of genes in d109 was more abundantly expressed over time in neurons. While the majority of the viral genome became relatively quiescent, the latency-associated transcript was specifically upregulated. Unexpectedly, other genes within repeat regions of the genome, as well as the unique genes just adjacent the repeat regions, also remained relatively active in neurons. The relative permissiveness of TG neurons to viral gene expression near the joint region is likely significant during the establishment and reactivation of latency. IMPORTANCE During productive infection, the genes of HSV-1 are transcribed in an ordered cascade. HSV can also establish a more quiescent or latent infection in peripheral neurons. HSV mutants defective in multiple immediate early (IE) genes establish a quiescent infection that models aspects of latency in vivo. We simultaneously quantified the expression of all the HSV genes in nonneuronal and neuronal cells by RNA-seq analysis. The results for productive infection shed further light on the nature of genes and promoters of different kinetic classes. In quiescent infection, there was greater transcription across the genome in neurons than in nonneuronal cells. In particular, the transcription of the latency-associated transcript (LAT), IE genes, and genes in the unique regions adjacent to the repeats persisted in neurons. The relative activity of this region of the genome in the absence of viral activators suggests a more dynamic state for quiescent genomes persisting in neurons.
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Ihalainen TO, Willman SF, Niskanen EA, Paloheimo O, Smolander H, Laurila JP, Kaikkonen MU, Vihinen-Ranta M. Distribution and dynamics of transcription-associated proteins during parvovirus infection. J Virol 2012; 86:13779-84. [PMID: 23035221 PMCID: PMC3503060 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01625-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2012] [Accepted: 09/24/2012] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Canine parvovirus (CPV) infection leads to reorganization of nuclear proteinaceous subcompartments. Our studies showed that virus infection causes a time-dependent increase in the amount of viral nonstructural protein NS1 mRNA. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching showed that the recovery kinetics of nuclear transcription-associated proteins, TATA binding protein (TBP), transcription factor IIB (TFIIB), and poly(A) binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1) were different in infected and noninfected cells, pointing to virus-induced alterations in binding dynamics of these proteins.
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- Teemu O. Ihalainen
- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Laboratory for Biologically Oriented Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Biochemistry, Medical Genetics Cluster, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- AI Virtanen Institute, Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Nanoscience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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Requirement of the N-terminal activation domain of herpes simplex virus ICP4 for viral gene expression. J Virol 2012; 87:1010-8. [PMID: 23135715 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02844-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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ICP4 is the major activator of herpes simplex virus (HSV) transcription. Previous studies have defined several regions of ICP4 that are important for viral gene expression, including a DNA binding domain and transactivation domains that are contained in the C-terminal and N-terminal 520 and 274 amino acids, respectively. Here we show that the N-terminal 210 amino acids of ICP4 are required for interactions with components of TFIID and mediator and, as a consequence, are necessary for the activation of viral genes. A mutant of ICP4 deleted for amino acids 30 to 210, d3-10, was unable to complement an ICP4 null virus at the level of viral replication. This was the result of a severe deficiency in viral gene and protein expression. The absence of viral gene expression coincided with a defect in the recruitment of RNA polymerase II to a representative early promoter (thymidine kinase [TK]). Affinity purification experiments demonstrated that d3-10 ICP4 was not found in complexes with components of TFIID and mediator, suggesting that the defect in RNA polymerase II (Pol II) recruitment was the result of ablated interactions between d3-10 and TFIID and mediator. Complementation assays suggested that the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of ICP4 cooperate to mediate gene expression. The complementation was the result of the formation of more functional heterodimers, which restored the ability of the d3-10-containing molecules to interact with TFIID. Together, these studies suggest that the N terminus contains a true activation domain, mediating interactions with TFIID, mediator, and perhaps other transcription factors, and that the C terminus of the molecule contains activities that augment the functions of the activation domain.
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mRNA decay during herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections: mutations that affect translation of an mRNA influence the sites at which it is cleaved by the HSV virion host shutoff (Vhs) protein. J Virol 2012; 87:94-109. [PMID: 23077305 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01557-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During lytic infections, the herpes simplex virus (HSV) virion host shutoff (Vhs) endoribonuclease degrades many host and viral mRNAs. Within infected cells it cuts mRNAs at preferred sites, including some in regions of translation initiation. Vhs binds the translation initiation factors eIF4H, eIF4AI, and eIF4AII, suggesting that its mRNA degradative function is somehow linked to translation. To explore how Vhs is targeted to preferred sites, we examined the in vitro degradation of a target mRNA in rabbit reticulocyte lysates containing in vitro-translated Vhs. Vhs caused rapid degradation of mRNAs beginning with cleavages at sites in the first 250 nucleotides, including a number near the start codon and in the 5' untranslated region. Ligation of the ends to form a circular mRNA inhibited Vhs cleavage at the same sites at which it cuts capped linear molecules. This was not due to an inability to cut any circular RNA, since Vhs cuts circular mRNAs containing an encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) internal ribosome entry site (IRES) at the same sites as linear molecules with the IRES. Cutting linear mRNAs at preferred sites was augmented by the presence of a 5' cap. Moreover, mutations that altered the 5' proximal AUG abolished Vhs cleavage at nearby sites, while mutations that changed sequences surrounding the AUG to improve their match to the Kozak consensus sequence enhanced Vhs cutting near the start codon. The results indicate that mutations in an mRNA that affect its translation affect the sites at which it is cut by Vhs and suggest that Vhs is directed to its preferred cut sites during translation initiation.
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The Epstein-Barr virus BcRF1 gene product is a TBP-like protein with an essential role in late gene expression. J Virol 2012; 86:6023-32. [PMID: 22457524 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00159-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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That the expression of late genes is coupled to viral genome replication is well established for all herpesviruses, but the exact mechanisms of their regulation, especially by viral proteins, are poorly understood. Here, we report the identification of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) early protein BcRF1 as a viral factor crucial for the activation of late gene transcription following viral DNA replication during the productive cycle. In order to study the function of the BcRF1 protein, we constructed a recombinant EBV lacking this gene. In HEK293 cells, this recombinant virus underwent normal DNA replication during the productive cycle but failed to express high levels of late gene transcripts or proteins, resulting in a nonproductive infection. Interestingly, a TATT motif is present in the promoter of most EBV late genes, at the position of the TATA box. We show here that BcRF1 forms a complex with the TATT motif and that this interaction is required for activation of late viral gene expression. Moreover, our results suggest that BcRF1 acts via interaction with other viral proteins.
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Wen Y, Cheng A, Wang M, Ge H, Shen C, Liu S, Xiang J, Jia R, Zhu D, Chen X, Lian B, Chang H, Zhou Y. A Thymidine Kinase recombinant protein-based ELISA for detecting antibodies to Duck Plague Virus. Virol J 2010; 7:77. [PMID: 20416075 PMCID: PMC2879249 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-7-77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2010] [Accepted: 04/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Duck plague virus (DPV) is the causative agent of Duck Plague (DP) that causes significant morbidity and mortality throughout duck-producing areas of the world. The diagnosis of DP currently relies on the use of live or inactivated whole DPV virion as antigens in ELISA, but it is too laborious and expensive for routine application, and it is still difficult to get purified DPV virion with current technology. RESULTS In this study, we describe the expression and purification of a recombinant Thymidine Kinase (TK) protein which makes antigen in an in-house developed, optimized and standardized ELISA. The specificity of the optimized TK-ELISA was evaluated by antisera against Duck Plague Virus (DPV), Duck Hepatitis B Virus (DHBV), Duck Hepatitis Virus (DHV), Riemerella Anatipestifer(R. A), Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Salmonella anatum (S. anatum). Only antisera against DPV yielded a specific and strong signal. In order to determine the sensitivity of the TK-ELISA, a panel of diluted sera was tested, and the minimum detection limit of 1:2560 (OD450 nm = 0.401) was obtained according to the endpoint cut-off (0.2438). The repeatability and reproducibility under the experimental conditions demonstrates a low variability (P > 0.05). The suspected sera samples (n = 30) were determined by TK-ELISA and the positive rate is 90% (27/30), and the TK-ELISA showed 83.33% (22+3/30) coincidence rate with the Serum Neutralization Test (SNT) and 90% (24+3/30) coincidence rate with the whole DPV virion based-ELISA (DPV-ELISA). When defining the dynamics of antibody response to attenuated live DPV vaccine, the maximum antibodies is reached after 4 weeks. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that the TK-ELISA provides high specificity, sensitivity, repeatability and reproducibility for detection of anti-DPV antibodies in duck sera, and has the potential to be much simpler than DPV-ELISA and SNT for the sera epidemiological investigation.
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- Yongping Wen
- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
- Epizootic Diseases Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
- Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
- Epizootic Diseases Institute of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Avian Diseases Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine of Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Diseases and Human Health of Sichuan Province, Ya'an, Sichuan, 625014, China
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ICP0 antagonizes ICP4-dependent silencing of the herpes simplex virus ICP0 gene. PLoS One 2010; 5:e8837. [PMID: 20098619 PMCID: PMC2809113 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2009] [Accepted: 01/04/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
ICP0 is a regulatory protein that plays a critical role in the replication-latency balance of herpes simplex virus (HSV). Absence of ICP0 renders HSV prone to establish quiescent infections, and thus cellular repressor(s) are believed to silence HSV mRNA synthesis when ICP0 fails to accumulate. To date, an ICP0-antagonized repressor has not been identified that restricts HSV mRNA synthesis by more than 2-fold. We report the unexpected discovery that HSV's major transcriptional regulator, ICP4, meets the criteria of a bona fide ICP0-antagonized repressor of viral mRNA synthesis. Our study began when we noted a repressive activity that restricted ICP0 mRNA synthesis by up to 30-fold in the absence of ICP0. When ICP0 accumulated, the repressor only restricted ICP0 mRNA synthesis by 3-fold. ICP4 proved to be necessary and sufficient to repress ICP0 mRNA synthesis, and did so in an ICP4-binding-site-dependent manner. ICP4 co-immunoprecipitated with FLAG-tagged ICP0; thus, a physical interaction likely explains how ICP0 antagonizes ICP4's capacity to silence the ICP0 gene. These findings suggest that ICP0 mRNA synthesis is differentially regulated in HSV-infected cells by the virus-encoded repressor activity embedded in ICP4, and a virus-encoded antirepressor, ICP0. Bacteriophage λ relies on a similar repression-antirepression regulatory scheme to “decide” whether a given infection will be productive or silent. Therefore, our findings appear to add to the growing list of inexplicable similarities that point to a common evolutionary ancestry between the herpesviruses and tailed bacteriophage.
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