The protein encoded by the Us3 orthologue of Marek's disease virus is required for efficient de-envelopment of perinuclear virions and involved in actin stress fiber breakdown
The protein encoded by the Us3 orthologue of Marek's disease virus is required for efficient de-envelopment of perinuclear virions and involved in actin stress fiber breakdown
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DOI:
10.1128/jvi.79.7.3987-3997.2005
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发表时间:
2005-04-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Osterrieder, N
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作者:
Schumacher, D;Tischer, BK;Osterrieder, N
Marek's disease virus (MDV) encodes a protein exhibiting high amino acid similarity to the U(S)3 protein of herpes simplex virus type 1 and the gene 66 product of varicella-zoster virus. The MDV U(S)3 orthologue was replaced with a kanamycin resistance gene in the infectious bacterial artificial chromosome clone BAC20. After transfection of Us3-negative BAC20 DNA (20 Delta U(S)3), the resulting recombinant 20 Delta U(S)3 virus exhibited markedly reduced growth kinetics. Virus titers on chicken embryo cells were reduced by approximately 10-fold, and plaque sizes were significantly smaller (65% reduction) compared to parental BAC20 virus. The defect of the U(S)3-negative MDV was completely restored in a revertant virus (20U(S)3*) expressing a U(S)3 protein with a carboxy-terminal FIAG tag. Electron microscopical studies revealed that the defect of the 20 Delta U(S)3 mutant to efficiently spread from cell to cell was concomitant with an accumulation in the perinuclear space of primarily enveloped virions in characteristic vesicles containing several virus particles, which resulted in reduced numbers of particles in the cytoplasm. The formation of these vesicles was not observed in cells infected with either parental BAC20 virus or the 20U(S)3* revertant virus. The role of the MDV U(S)3 protein in actin stress fiber breakdown was investigated by visualizing actin with phalloidin-Alexa 488 after infection or transfection of a U(S)3 expression plasmid. Addition of the actin-depolymerizing drug cytochalasin D to cells transfected or infected w:ith BAC20 resulted in complete inhibition of plaque formation with as little as 50 nM of the drug, while concentrations of nocodazole as high as 50 mu M only had a relatively minor effect on MDV plaque formation. The results indicated that the MDV U(S)3 serine-threonine protein kinase is transiently involved in MDV-mediated stress fiber breakdown and that polymerization of actin, but not microtubulles, plays an important role in MDV cell-to-cell spread.