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Tombácz D, Kakuk B, Torma G, Csabai Z, Gulyás G, Tamás V, Zádori Z, Jefferson VA, Meyer F, Boldogkői Z. In-Depth Temporal Transcriptome Profiling of an Alphaherpesvirus Using Nanopore Sequencing. Viruses 2022; 14:v14061289. [PMID: 35746760 PMCID: PMC9229804 DOI: 10.3390/v14061289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 06/05/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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In this work, a long-read sequencing (LRS) technique based on the Oxford Nanopore Technology MinION platform was used for quantifying and kinetic characterization of the poly(A) fraction of bovine alphaherpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) lytic transcriptome across a 12-h infection period. Amplification-based LRS techniques frequently generate artefactual transcription reads and are biased towards the production of shorter amplicons. To avoid these undesired effects, we applied direct cDNA sequencing, an amplification-free technique. Here, we show that a single promoter can produce multiple transcription start sites whose distribution patterns differ among the viral genes but are similar in the same gene at different timepoints. Our investigations revealed that the circ gene is expressed with immediate–early (IE) kinetics by utilizing a special mechanism based on the use of the promoter of another IE gene (bicp4) for the transcriptional control. Furthermore, we detected an overlap between the initiation of DNA replication and the transcription from the bicp22 gene, which suggests an interaction between the two molecular machineries. This study developed a generally applicable LRS-based method for the time-course characterization of transcriptomes of any organism.
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- Dóra Tombácz
- Department of Medical Biology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, 6720 Szeged, Hungary; (D.T.); (B.K.); (G.T.); (Z.C.); (G.G.)
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- Department of Medical Biology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, 6720 Szeged, Hungary; (D.T.); (B.K.); (G.T.); (Z.C.); (G.G.)
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- Department of Medical Biology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, 6720 Szeged, Hungary; (D.T.); (B.K.); (G.T.); (Z.C.); (G.G.)
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- Department of Medical Biology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, 6720 Szeged, Hungary; (D.T.); (B.K.); (G.T.); (Z.C.); (G.G.)
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- Department of Medical Biology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, 6720 Szeged, Hungary; (D.T.); (B.K.); (G.T.); (Z.C.); (G.G.)
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- Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungária krt. 21, 1143 Budapest, Hungary; (V.T.); (Z.Z.)
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- Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungária krt. 21, 1143 Budapest, Hungary; (V.T.); (Z.Z.)
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, 408 Dorman P.O. Box 9655, 32 Creelman St., Starkville, MS 39762, USA; (V.A.J.); (F.M.)
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Entomology & Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, 408 Dorman P.O. Box 9655, 32 Creelman St., Starkville, MS 39762, USA; (V.A.J.); (F.M.)
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- Department of Medical Biology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, 6720 Szeged, Hungary; (D.T.); (B.K.); (G.T.); (Z.C.); (G.G.)
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Time-course profiling of bovine alphaherpesvirus 1.1 transcriptome using multiplatform sequencing. Sci Rep 2020; 10:20496. [PMID: 33235226 PMCID: PMC7686369 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77520-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Long-read sequencing (LRS) has become a standard approach for transcriptome analysis in recent years. Bovine alphaherpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) is an important pathogen of cattle worldwide. This study reports the profiling of the dynamic lytic transcriptome of BoHV-1 using two long-read sequencing (LRS) techniques, the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION, and the LoopSeq synthetic LRS methods, using multiple library preparation protocols. In this work, we annotated viral mRNAs and non-coding transcripts, and a large number of transcript isoforms, including transcription start and end sites, as well as splice variants of BoHV-1. Our analysis demonstrated an extremely complex pattern of transcriptional overlaps.
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Ackermann M, Koriabine M, Hartmann-Fritsch F, de Jong PJ, Lewis TD, Schetle N, Work TM, Dagenais J, Balazs GH, Leong JAC. The genome of Chelonid herpesvirus 5 harbors atypical genes. PLoS One 2012; 7:e46623. [PMID: 23056373 PMCID: PMC3462797 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2011] [Accepted: 09/06/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Chelonid fibropapilloma-associated herpesvirus (CFPHV; ChHV5) is believed to be the causative agent of fibropapillomatosis (FP), a neoplastic disease of marine turtles. While clinical signs and pathology of FP are well known, research on ChHV5 has been impeded because no cell culture system for its propagation exists. We have cloned a BAC containing ChHV5 in pTARBAC2.1 and determined its nucleotide sequence. Accordingly, ChHV5 has a type D genome and its predominant gene order is typical for the varicellovirus genus within the alphaherpesvirinae. However, at least four genes that are atypical for an alphaherpesvirus genome were also detected, i.e. two members of the C-type lectin-like domain superfamily (F-lec1, F-lec2), an orthologue to the mouse cytomegalovirus M04 (F-M04) and a viral sialyltransferase (F-sial). Four lines of evidence suggest that these atypical genes are truly part of the ChHV5 genome: (1) the pTARBAC insertion interrupted the UL52 ORF, leaving parts of the gene to either side of the insertion and suggesting that an intact molecule had been cloned. (2) Using FP-associated UL52 (F-UL52) as an anchor and the BAC-derived sequences as a means to generate primers, overlapping PCR was performed with tumor-derived DNA as template, which confirmed the presence of the same stretch of “atypical” DNA in independent FP cases. (3) Pyrosequencing of DNA from independent tumors did not reveal previously undetected viral sequences, suggesting that no apparent loss of viral sequence had happened due to the cloning strategy. (4) The simultaneous presence of previously known ChHV5 sequences and F-sial as well as F-M04 sequences was also confirmed in geographically distinct Australian cases of FP. Finally, transcripts of F-sial and F-M04 but not transcripts of lytic viral genes were detected in tumors from Hawaiian FP-cases. Therefore, we suggest that F-sial and F-M04 may play a role in FP pathogenesis.
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Ahn BC, Kim S, Zhang Y, Charvat RA, O'Callaghan DJ. The early UL3 gene of equine herpesvirus-1 encodes a tegument protein not essential for replication or virulence in the mouse. Virology 2011; 420:20-31. [PMID: 21917286 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2011.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2011] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The UL3 gene of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) is retained in the genome of defective interfering particles and encodes a ~33kDa myristylated protein. Further characterization showed that the UL3 gene is trans-activated only by the sole immediate early (IE) protein and encodes an early protein that is dispensable for EHV-1 replication and localizes in the tegument of purified virions. UL3-deleted EHV-1 (vL11ΔUL3) exhibits properties of host cell tropism, plaque size, and growth kinetics similar to those of the parental virus. Expression levels of EHV-1 proteins representative of all three gene classes in vL11ΔUL3-infected cells were identical to those in cells infected with parental virus. Mice intranasally infected with vL11ΔUL3 and parental virus showed no significant difference in mortality or virus lung titers. These findings suggest that the UL3 protein does not play a major role in the biology of EHV-1 in cell culture or virulence in the mouse.
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- Byung Chul Ahn
- Center for Molecular and Tumor Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA
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Robinson KE, Meers J, Gravel JL, McCarthy FM, Mahony TJ. The essential and non-essential genes of Bovine herpesvirus 1. J Gen Virol 2008; 89:2851-2863. [DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.2008/002501-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) is an economically important pathogen of cattle associated with respiratory and reproductive disease. To further develop BoHV-1 as a vaccine vector, a study was conducted to identify the essential and non-essential genes required for in vitro viability. Random-insertion mutagenesis utilizing a Tn5 transposition system and targeted gene deletion were employed to construct gene disruption and gene deletion libraries, respectively, of an infectious clone of BoHV-1. Transposon insertion position and confirmation of gene deletion were determined by direct sequencing. The essential or non-essential requirement of either transposed or deleted open reading frames (ORFs) was assessed by transfection of respective BoHV-1 DNA into host cells. Of the 73 recognized ORFs encoded by the BoHV-1 genome, 33 were determined to be essential and 36 to be non-essential for virus viability in cell culture; determining the requirement of the two dual copy ORFs was inconclusive. The majority of ORFs were shown to conform to the in vitro requirements of BoHV-1 homologues encoded by human herpesvirus 1 (HHV-1). However, ORFs encoding glycoprotein K (UL53), regulatory, membrane, tegument and capsid proteins (UL54, UL49.5, UL49, UL35, UL20, UL16 and UL7) were shown to differ in requirement when compared to HHV-1-encoded homologues.
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- Karl E. Robinson
- School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Muylkens B, Thiry J, Kirten P, Schynts F, Thiry E. Bovine herpesvirus 1 infection and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Vet Res 2007; 38:181-209. [PMID: 17257569 DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2006059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 254] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2006] [Accepted: 11/15/2006] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1), classified as an alphaherpesvirus, is a major pathogen of cattle. Primary infection is accompanied by various clinical manifestations such as infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, abortion, infectious pustular vulvovaginitis, and systemic infection in neonates. When animals survive, a life-long latent infection is established in nervous sensory ganglia. Several reactivation stimuli can lead to viral re-excretion, which is responsible for the maintenance of BoHV-1 within a cattle herd. This paper focuses on an updated pathogenesis based on a molecular characterization of BoHV-1 and the description of the virus cycle. Special emphasis is accorded to the impact of the latency and reactivation cycle on the epidemiology and the control of BoHV-1. Several European countries have initiated BoHV-1 eradication schemes because of the significant losses incurred by disease and trading restrictions. The vaccines used against BoHV-1 are described in this context where the differentiation of infected from vaccinated animals is of critical importance to achieve BoHV-1 eradication.
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- Benoît Muylkens
- Virology, Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Boulevard de Colonster 20, B43b, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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Zhang Y, Jiang Y, Geiser V, Zhou J, Jones C. Bovine herpesvirus 1 immediate-early protein (bICP0) interacts with the histone acetyltransferase p300, which stimulates productive infection and gC promoter activity. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:1843-1851. [PMID: 16760386 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81766-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The immediate-early protein, bICP0, ofBovine herpesvirus 1(BHV-1) transactivates viral promoters and stimulates productive infection. bICP0 is expressed constitutively during productive infection, as its gene contains an immediate-early and an early promoter. Like other ICP0 homologues encoded by members of the subfamilyAlphaherpesvirinae, bICP0 contains a zinc RING finger located near its N terminus. Mutations that disrupt the bICP0 zinc RING finger impair its ability to activate transcription, stimulate productive infection, inhibit interferon-dependent transcription in certain cell types and regulate subnuclear localization. bICP0 also interacts with a cellular chromatin-remodelling enzyme, histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1), and can relieve HDAC1-mediated transcriptional repression, suggesting that bICP0 inhibits silencing of the viral genome. In this study, it was shown that bICP0 interacted with the histone acetyltransferase p300 during productive infection and in transiently transfected cells. In addition, p300 enhanced BHV-1 productive infection and transactivated a late viral promoter (gC). In contrast, a CH3-domain deletion mutant of p300, which is a dominant-negative mutant, did not activate the gC promoter. bICP0 and p300 cooperated to activate the gC promoter, suggesting that there is a synergistic effect on promoter activation. As p300 can activate certain antiviral signalling pathways (for example, interferon), it was hypothesized that interactions between p300 and bICP0 may dampen the antiviral response following infection.
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- Yange Zhang
- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68503, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68503, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68503, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68503, USA
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68503, USA
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Hushur O, Takashima Y, Matsumoto Y, Otsuka H. Restriction of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) growth in non-permissive cells beyond the expression of immediate early genes. J Vet Med Sci 2004; 66:453-5. [PMID: 15133279 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.66.453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Mouse BALB/3T3-A31-1-1 (A31) cells are non-permissive to bovine herpes virus-1 (BHV-1) but permissive to pseudorabies virus (PrV). The promoter activity of the immediate early gene of BHV-1 (BICP4) was very weak when compared with that of PrV in A31 cells. Infectious BHV-1 genomic DNA co-transfected into A31 cells with plasmids expressing BICP4 and BICP0 by a strong promoter failed to yield any progeny virus. Growth of BHV-1 in non-permissible A31 cells is restricted in many phases of the growth. The fact that expression of BICP4 and/or BICP0 in A31 cells does not improve the yield of progeny virus from infectious BHV-1 genomic DNA suggests that some more growth restrictions exist beyond the expression of BHV-1 immediate early proteins.
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- Orkash Hushur
- Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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- Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
- IMP-Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 7, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.
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Schwyzer M, Fischer-Bracher C, Fraefel C, Bächi T, Nuñez R, Engels M, Ackermann M. Transduction of Vero cells and bovine monocytes with a herpes simplex virus-1 based amplicon carrying the gene for the bovine herpesvirus-1 Circ protein. Vet Microbiol 2002; 86:165-74. [PMID: 11888699 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1135(01)00500-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) based amplicon vectors are promising gene delivery vehicles because they have a large transgene capacity and can efficiently transduce many different cell types, including non-dividing cells, of various animal species. The Circ protein of bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) is a myristylated virion component of unknown function. Preliminary experiments with a circ gene deletion mutant indicated that Circ may influence the host's immune response by downregulating MHC-II expression in bovine monocytes. To get more insight into the function of Circ, amplicon vectors were constructed with various open reading frames (ORFs) under the control of the HSV-1 IE4/5 promoter: (i) the Circ ORF alone, (ii) a fusion ORF encoding an N-terminal Circ fused to the enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP), (iii) the eGFP ORF alone, and (iv) the Circ ORF in the inverted orientation. Upon helpervirus-free packaging into HSV-1 amplicon particles and transduction of Vero cells, both Circ alone and the Circ-eGFP fusion protein produced a punctate pattern within the cytoplasm, suggesting membrane association of the myristylated protein. In contrast, eGFP alone was evenly distributed over the cytoplasm of transduced cells. Upon infection of bovine buffy-coat cells, it was observed that cells of the monocyte lineage but not lymphocytes were transduced. Transgene expression reached a peak around 20h after transduction and lasted for at least 90h. Transduced monocytes underwent specific morphological changes, which may be attributed to Circ synthesis.
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- M Schwyzer
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Winterthurerstrasse 266A, University of Zürich, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Sato H, Pesnicak L, Cohen JI. Varicella-zoster virus open reading frame 2 encodes a membrane phosphoprotein that is dispensable for viral replication and for establishment of latency. J Virol 2002; 76:3575-8. [PMID: 11884583 PMCID: PMC136057 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.7.3575-3578.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) encodes six genes that do not have homologs in herpes simplex virus. One of these genes, VZV open reading frame 2 (ORF2), was expressed as a 31-kDa phosphoprotein in the membranes of infected cells. Unlike equine and bovine herpesvirus type 1 ORF2 homologs that are associated with virions, VZV virions contained no detectable ORF2 protein. The ORF2 deletion mutant established a latent infection in cotton rats at a frequency and with a number of VZV genomes similar to that of the parental virus. ORF63 transcripts, a hallmark of latent infection, were present in ganglia latently infected with both the ORF2 deletion mutant and parental VZV. Thus, ORF2 is the first VZV gene shown to be dispensable for establishment of latent infection in an animal model.
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- Hitoshi Sato
- Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1888, USA
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Inman M, Lovato L, Doster A, Jones C. A mutation in the latency-related gene of bovine herpesvirus 1 leads to impaired ocular shedding in acutely infected calves. J Virol 2001; 75:8507-15. [PMID: 11507196 PMCID: PMC115096 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.18.8507-8515.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) is an important pathogen of cattle, and infection is usually initiated in the ocular or nasal cavity. Like other alphaherpesviruses, BHV-1 establishes latency in sensory neurons but has the potential of reactivating from latency and spreading. The only abundant viral transcript expressed during latency is the latency-related (LR) RNA, which is alternatively spliced in trigeminal ganglia during acute infection (L. R. Devireddy and C. Jones, J. Virol. 72:7294-7301, 1998). LR gene products inhibit cell cycle progression (Y. Jiang, A. Hossain, M. T. Winkler, T. Holt, A. Doster, and C. Jones, J. Virol. 72:8133-8142, 1998) and chemically induced apoptosis (J. Ciacci-Zannela, M. Stone, G. Henderson, and C. Jones. J. Virol. 73:9734-9740, 1999). Although these studies suggest that LR gene products play an important role in the latency/pathogenesis of BHV-1, construction of a mutant is necessary to test this hypothesis. Because the bICP0 gene overlaps and is antisense to the LR gene, it was necessary to mutate the LR gene without altering bICP0 expression. This was accomplished by inserting three stop codons near the beginning of the LR RNA, thus interfering with expression of proteins expressed by the LR RNA. The LR mutant virus grew with wild-type (WT) efficiency in bovine kidney (MDBK) cells and expressed bICP0 at least as efficiently as WT BHV-1 or the LR rescued virus. When calves were infected with the LR mutant, we observed a dramatic decrease (3 to 4 log units) in ocular shedding during acute infection relative to WT or the LR rescued virus. In contrast, shedding of the LR mutant from the nasal cavity was not significantly different from that of the WT or the LR rescued virus. Calves infected with the LR mutant exhibited mild clinical symptoms, but they seroconverted. Neutralizing antibody titers were lower in calves infected with the LR mutant, confirming reduced growth. In summary, this study suggests that an LR protein promotes ocular shedding during acute infection of calves.
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- M Inman
- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0905, USA
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Kemble GW, Annunziato P, Lungu O, Winter RE, Cha TA, Silverstein SJ, Spaete RR. Open reading frame S/L of varicella-zoster virus encodes a cytoplasmic protein expressed in infected cells. J Virol 2000; 74:11311-21. [PMID: 11070031 PMCID: PMC113236 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.23.11311-11321.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We report the discovery of a novel gene in the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) genome, designated open reading frame (ORF) S/L. This gene, located at the left end of the prototype VZV genome isomer, expresses a polyadenylated mRNA containing a splice within the 3' untranslated region in virus-infected cells. Sequence analysis reveals significant differences between the ORF S/Ls of wild-type and attenuated strains of VZV. Antisera raised to a bacterially expressed portion of ORF S/L reacted specifically with a 21-kDa protein synthesized in cells infected with a VZV clinical isolate and with the original vaccine strain of VZV (Oka-ATCC). Cells infected with other VZV strains, including a wild-type strain that has been extensively passaged in tissue culture and commercially produced vaccine strains of Oka, synthesize a family of proteins ranging in size from 21 to 30 kDa that react with the anti-ORF S/L antiserum. MeWO cells infected with recombinant VZV harboring mutations in the C-terminal region of the ORF S/L gene lost adherence to the stratum and adjacent cells, resulting in an altered plaque morphology. Immunohistochemical analysis of VZV-infected cells demonstrated that ORF S/L protein localizes to the cytoplasm. ORF S/L protein was present in skin lesions of individuals with primary or reactivated infection and in the neurons of a dorsal root ganglion during virus reactivation.
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- G W Kemble
- Aviron, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
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Winkler M, aus Dem Siepen T, Stamminger T. Functional interaction between pleiotropic transactivator pUL69 of human cytomegalovirus and the human homolog of yeast chromatin regulatory protein SPT6. J Virol 2000; 74:8053-64. [PMID: 10933715 PMCID: PMC112338 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.17.8053-8064.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2000] [Accepted: 06/05/2000] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The phosphoprotein pUL69 of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), which is a herpesvirus of considerable medical importance in immunosuppressed patients and newborns, has previously been identified as an early-late viral protein that can stimulate several viral and cellular promoters and thus exerts a rather broad activation pattern. To gain insight into the mechanism of this transactivation process, we looked for cellular factors interacting with pUL69 in a yeast two-hybrid screen. Using a B-lymphocyte cDNA library fused to the GAL4 activation domain, we identified 34 clones, 11 of which comprised one distinct gene. Interaction with this gene turned out to be very strong, producing beta-galactosidase levels 100-fold greater than the background as measured in an ONPG (o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside) assay. Sequencing identified this gene as the human homolog of the yeast factor SPT6, which is thought to be involved in the regulation of chromatin structure. A direct interaction of pUL69 and the carboxy terminus of hSPT6 could be demonstrated using in vitro pull-down experiments. After having generated a specific antiserum that is able to detect the endogenous hSPT6 protein, we were able to observe an in vivo interaction of both proteins by coimmunoprecipitation analysis. The interaction domain within pUL69 was mapped to a central domain of this viral protein that is conserved within the homologous proteins of other herpesviruses such as the ICP27 protein of herpes simplex virus. Internal deletions within this central domain, as well as a single amino acid exchange at position C495, resulted in a loss of interaction. This correlated with a loss of the transactivation potential of the respective mutants, suggesting that the hSPT6 interaction of pUL69 is essential for stimulating gene expression. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the carboxy terminus of hSPT6 also binds to histon H3 and that this interaction can be antagonized by pUL69. This allows the deduction of a model by which pUL69 acts as an antirepressor by competing for binding of histones to hSPT6, thereby antagonizing the chromatin remodeling function of this cellular protein.
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- M Winkler
- Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany
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Turin L, Russo S, Poli G. BHV-1: new molecular approaches to control a common and widespread infection. Mol Med 1999; 5:261-84. [PMID: 10390543 PMCID: PMC2230419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Herpesviruses are widespread viruses, causing severe infections in both humans and animals. Eradication of herpesviruses is extremely difficult because of their ability to establish latent and life-long infections. However, latency is only one tool that has evolved in herpesviruses to successfully infect their hosts; such viruses display a wide (and still incompletely known) panoply of genes and proteins that are able to counteract immune responses of their hosts. Envelope glycoproteins and cytokine inhibitors are two examples of such weapons. All of these factors make it difficult to develop diagnostics and vaccines, unless they are based on molecular techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS Animal herpesviruses, because of their striking similarity to human ones, are suitable models to study the molecular biology of herpesviruses and develop strategies aimed at designing neurotropic live vectors for gene therapy as well as engineered attenuated vaccines. RESULTS BHV-1 is a neurotropic herpesvirus causing infectious rhinotracheitis (IBR) in cattle. It is a major plague in zootechnics and commercial trade, because of its ability to spread through asymptomatic carrier animals, frozen semen, and embryos. Such portals of infections are also important for human herpesviruses, which mainly cause systemic, eye, and genital tract infections, leading even to the development of cancer. CONCLUSIONS This review covers both the genetics and molecular biology of BHV-1 and its related herpesviruses. Epidemiology and diagnostic approaches to herpesvirus infections are presented. The role of herpesviruses in gene therapy and a broad introduction to classic and engineered vaccines against herpesviruses are also provided. http://link.springer-ny. com/link/service/journals/00020/bibs/5n5p261.html
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- L Turin
- Institute of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, University of Milan, Italy.
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- C Jones
- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0905, USA
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Schang LM, Jones C. Analysis of bovine herpesvirus 1 transcripts during a primary infection of trigeminal ganglia of cattle. J Virol 1997; 71:6786-95. [PMID: 9261403 PMCID: PMC191959 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.6786-6795.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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During an infection of nonneuronal cells, bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) gene expression proceeds in a well-defined cascade. Products of immediate-early (IE) genes are expressed first, and they activate expression of early (E) and late (L) genes. Although the same cascade is assumed to occur during an infection of neurons in trigeminal ganglia (TG) of cattle, no experimental data is available to support this hypothesis. Consequently, we analyzed BHV-1 gene expression in bovine TG at 1, 2, 4, 7, and 15 days postinfection (dpi). Infectious virus was detected in ocular swabs from 1 to 7 dpi but not 15 dpi. By reverse transcription (RT)-PCR, IE (bICP4), E (thymidine kinase, ribonucleotide reductase [RR]), L (glycoprotein C, and alpha trans-inducing factor), and dual-kinetic (bICP0 and bICP22) transcripts were analyzed. When cDNA synthesis was primed with random hexamers, IE and E transcripts were detected at the same time. However, full-length and poly(A)+ (FL&P) RR or bICP22 RNAs were detected before FL&P IE RNAs. Furthermore, FL&P IE transcripts were not detected until viral DNA increased in TG. IE transcripts were detected before E or L RNAs when rabbit kidney cells were infected with a low multiplicity of infection and the same RT-PCR detection method was used. These studies suggested that expression of full-length and polyadenylated IE transcripts in trigeminal ganglia was not efficient compared to that of RR and bICP22 transcripts.
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- L M Schang
- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0905, USA
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Molecular virology has served to establish bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) as the prototype member of ruminant herpesviruses. Based on the genomic sequence of the virus, we aim to identify and characterize virus-specified components, to explain their concerted action, and to predict how the chain of events during the lytic and latent phases of the viral life cycle may be interrupted. The nucleotide sequence of the BHV-1 genome (136 kb) has just been completed by international cooperation (July 1995; except for a small gap in UL36). It comprises 67 unique genes and 2 genes, both duplicated, in the inverted repeats. In general, these genes exhibit strong homology at the amino acid sequence level to those of other alphaherpesviruses (HSV-1, VZV, EHV-1) and are arranged in similar order. A few genes are peculiar to only one or two herpesviruses, e.g. in BHV-1 the circ, UL0.5, UL3.5 and US1.5 genes. Not long ago, the repertoire of BHV-1 proteins under study was restricted to the three major glycoproteins (gB, gC, and gD) and thymidine kinase. The repertoire is now growing rapidly and includes 7 additional glycoproteins (gE, gI, gH, gL, gG, gK and gM), a number of enzymes (e.g. ribonucleotide reductase, DNA Polymerase, dUTPase), and a group of regulatory proteins (BICPO, 4, 22, and 27, alpha TIF). Investigations into the functions of these proteins and comparison with their counterparts in other herpesviruses should reveal which are useful targets for diagnosis, prevention or antiviral treatment. Recombinant viruses containing deletions or replacements of individual genes are being created, aiming at vaccine development and insights into pathogenesis, notably latency, neurotropism, and interference with host functions. Molecular analysis of other ruminant herpesviruses is much less advanced. Over a dozen virus species have been described; most share basic properties with BHV-1 and may be classified as alphaherpesviruses. The gammaherpesviruses are represented by the proposed agent of malignant catarrhal fever, alcelaphine herpesvirus 1, and by bovine herpesvirus 4, whose partial sequences exhibit similarity to herpesvirus saimiri.
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- M Schwyzer
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
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Schwyzer M, Styger D, Vogt B, Lowery DE, Simard C, LaBoissière S, Misra V, Vlĉek C, Paĉes V. Gene contents in a 31-kb segment at the left genome end of bovine herpesvirus-1. Vet Microbiol 1996; 53:67-77. [PMID: 9010999 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1135(96)01235-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We report the nucleotide sequence of a 31-kb segment at the left genome end of bovine herpesvirus-1 (BHV-1) and show that it comprises 19 different open reading frames (ORFs), including seven which have been described previously (circ, dUTPase, UL49.5, alpha TIF, VP8, glycoprotein C, and ribonucleotide reductase small subunit). The new sequence resulted in a correction at the C-terminus of glycoprotein C. All 19 ORFs exhibited strong amino acid sequence homology to the gene products of other alphaherpesviruses. The BHV-1 ORFs were arranged colinearly with the prototype sequence of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) in the range of the UL54 to UL37 genes. No BHV-1 homologs of the HSV-1 UL56, UL55, and UL45 genes were identified. The BHV-1 circ gene was the only gene without a HSV-1 counterpart. The additional ORFs 1 and 2 found at the left genome end of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) were absent in BHV-1. Among the newly sequenced BHV-1 ORFs are homologs of ICP27 (UL54), glycoprotein K (UL53), helicase-primase (UL52), DNA polymerase accessory protein (UL42), ribonucleotide reductase large subunit (UL39), and several virion proteins (UL49, UL46, UL43, UL41, UL38, UL37), most of which are strongly conserved in all herpesviruses. The possible functions of the proteins encoded within the sequenced region are assessed and features found are discussed.
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- M Schwyzer
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
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Brown CR, Nakamura MS, Mosca JD, Hayward GS, Straus SE, Perera LP. Herpes simplex virus trans-regulatory protein ICP27 stabilizes and binds to 3' ends of labile mRNA. J Virol 1995; 69:7187-95. [PMID: 7474140 PMCID: PMC189640 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.11.7187-7195.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Previous work demonstrated that a herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) immediate-early function up-regulates beta interferon but not chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter genes driven by the strong simian virus 40 (SV40) or cytomegalovirus promoter-enhancer regions in both transient assays and stable cell lines. The different 3' mRNA stabilization and RNA-processing signals from these two reporter genes appeared to be primarily responsible for this phenomenon. We now report that the HSV-1 ICP27 itself is sufficient to stimulate both steady-state accumulation and increased half-life of beta interferon reporter gene mRNA. Furthermore, the ability to respond directly to cotransfected ICP27 can be transferred to chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter genes by replacement of their SV40-derived splicing and poly(A) signals with the 3' AU-rich and poly(A) RNA-processing signals from the normally highly labile beta interferon and c-myc mRNA species. ICP27 expressed in bacteria bound specifically to in vitro-generated RNA from both the beta interferon and c-myc intronless AU-rich 3' RNA-processing regions, but not to the SV40-derived early-region splice signal and poly(A) sequences. By site-specific mutagenesis, we also show that individual ICP27 C-terminal amino acid residues that are positionally conserved in ICP27 homologs in other herpesviruses (D-357, E-358, H-479, C-400, C-483, and C-488) are critical for trans-regulatory activity. Importantly, several of these positions match mutations that are known to be essential for the role of ICP27 in the early-to-late switch during the virus lytic cycle. Therefore, our findings support the notion that HSV ICP27 modulates gene expression posttranscriptionally in part by targeting RNA.
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- C R Brown
- Medical Virology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Johnson MA, Tyack SG. Molecular evolution of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV; gallid herpesvirus 1): an ancient example of the Alphaherpesviridae? Vet Microbiol 1995; 46:221-31. [PMID: 8545960 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(95)00086-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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An analysis of two essential genes of infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV), glycoprotein D (gD) and the immediate early gene, herpes simplex virus homologue ICP27, was performed with the equivalent gene homologues from several alphaherpesviruses. Amino acid (aa) sequence analysis revealed that these ILTV genes shared limited homology to other alphaherpesvirus equivalents and were distinct from the two other avian herpesviruses, Marek's disease virus (MDV) and herpesvirus of turkeys (HVT). Simplex and varicella group viruses are clearly separate from the avian group. The amino acid sequences of these ILTV genes will be presented with comparisons to the homologues from other alphaherpes viruses, contributing further evidence of the evolution of this group of viruses from a common progenitor and that ILTV could be an ancient example of the Alphaherpesvirinae.
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- M A Johnson
- CSIRO Division of Animal Health, Animal Health Research Laboratory, Parkville Vic, Australia
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Tikoo SK, Campos M, Babiuk LA. Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1): biology, pathogenesis, and control. Adv Virus Res 1995; 45:191-223. [PMID: 7793325 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(08)60061-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- S K Tikoo
- Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Fraefel C, Ackermann M, Schwyzer M. Identification of the bovine herpesvirus 1 circ protein, a myristylated and virion-associated polypeptide which is not essential for virus replication in cell culture. J Virol 1994; 68:8082-8. [PMID: 7966598 PMCID: PMC237272 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.12.8082-8088.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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We have recently reported immediate-early (IE) transcription over covalently joined genome ends of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1). A spliced 1.5-kb IE RNA (IER1.5) is coterminal with an unspliced 1.1-kb late RNA (LR1.1) which is transcribed from the left end of the genome. Sequence analysis reveals an open reading frame common to IER1.5 and LR1.1 predicted to encode the 247-amino-acid circ polypeptide. This paper reports on the identification of circ as a protein. Using a rabbit antiserum raised against a synthetic oligopeptide representing the carboxy terminus of the predicted circ polypeptide for Western blot (immunoblot) analyses and immunofluorescence assays, we identified a 34-kDa virion-associated protein which accumulated in the cytoplasm of infected cells. To confirm that LR1.1 indeed encoded the 34-kDa polypeptide, we inserted a DNA fragment containing circ coding sequences into the Autographa californica baculovirus genome. A group of recombinant polypeptides with sizes of 32, 34, and 35 kDa were identified by their reactivity with the antipeptide serum. Chicken egg yolk antibodies raised against total proteins of insect cells infected with the recombinant baculovirus identified the 34-kDa circ protein specified by BHV-1. The recombinant circ polypeptides and the circ protein specified by BHV-1 were both myristylated, as determined by radiolabeling with [3H]myristic acid. It was noted that the circ gene could be deleted from the BHV-1 genome without impairing virus replication in cell culture.
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- C Fraefel
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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Fraefel C, Zeng J, Choffat Y, Engels M, Schwyzer M, Ackermann M. Identification and zinc dependence of the bovine herpesvirus 1 transactivator protein BICP0. J Virol 1994; 68:3154-62. [PMID: 8151780 PMCID: PMC236806 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.5.3154-3162.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) specifies and unspliced early 2.6-kb RNA (ER2.6) which is 3' coterminal with exon 2 of the 2.9-kb immediate-early (IE) RNA. The two transcripts have a common open reading frame (676 codons). The predicted protein, designated BHV-1 infected cell protein 0 (BICP0), contains a zinc finger domain with homology to ICP0 of herpes simplex virus type 1 and protein 61 of varicella-zoster virus, and depending on the promoter, it acts as a strong activator or as a repressor in transient expression assays. In situ immunoadsorbent assays using antisera against synthetic oligopeptides demonstrated that BICP0 accumulates in nuclei of BHV-1-infected cells, as expected for an IE gene product involved in gene regulation. Western blots (immunoblots) revealed a BHV-1-specific 97-kDa protein which was detectable during the IE phase and also at later periods of infection, indicating that the kinetics of BICP0 synthesis is consistent with the switch from IER2.9 to ER2.6. To confirm that ER2.6 encoded the 97-kDa BICP0 protein, a DNA fragment containing BICP0-coding sequences was inserted into the Autographa californica baculovirus genome. A recombinant protein, identified by its reactivity with antipeptide sera, exhibited the same electrophoretic mobility as BICP0 specified by BHV-1. We microinjected Xenopus oocytes with a BICP0 effector plasmid and a promoter-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase plasmid. BICP0-induced stimulation of this promoter was strongly reduced when intracellular zinc was chelated by thionein, indicating that the effect of BICP0 is zinc dependent.
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- C Fraefel
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zürich, Switzerland
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