The y134.5 gene of herpes simplex virus 1 precludes neuroblastoma cells from triggering total shutoff of protein synthesis characteristic of programed cell death in neuronal cells
The y134.5 gene of herpes simplex virus 1 precludes neuroblastoma cells from triggering total shutoff of protein synthesis characteristic of programed cell death in neuronal cells
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J. Chou;B. Roizman
The yv34.5 gene of herpes simplex virus 1 was previously shown to play a role in viral vPrulence since deletion of the gene reduced by a factor of 4100,000 the capacit of the virus to replicate in the central nervous system and cause mortality in the mouse. Here we show that in the human neuroblastoma cell ling SK-N-SH ofneuronal origin 134.5 null mutants expressed early proteins, viral IQNA, and mRNA of late genes. However, the onset of viral I.NA synthesis triggered complete cessation of incorporation of radioactiyp preursors into proteins. The mutant and wild-type virus replicated and could not be differentiated in cell lines or cell striins of nonneuronal origin. The results indicate that in the absence of the y,34.5 gene' the SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells triggered a response similar to the programed cell death of neuronal cells induced by metabolic stress. The yi34.5 protein precludes this cell response possibly in order to enable the protein synthesis necessary for viral replication. The most severe and devastating manifestation of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection is encephalitis, which afflicts '4 in 250,000 adults (1). Of considerable interest in connection with this disease are the genes that confer upon the virus the capacity to replicate in the central nervous system (CNS) tissues. Chou et al. (2) reported that a viral gene designated as y134.5 enables the virus to multiply and spread in the CNS of mice even though it is not essential for viral replication in cell culture and in at least some murine tissues tested to date (R. J. Whitley, E. R. Kern, S. Chatterjee, J.C., and B.R., unpublished data). The y134.5 gene is located in the inverted repeats flanking the long component of viral DNA and therefore the gene is present in two copies per genome (4-7) (see Fig. 1). Its location is consistent with previous reports showing that a locus that affected the capacity of the virus to multiply in the CNS tissues mapped at the right end of the long component of HSV DNA in the prototype arrangement (2, 8-11). In the course of studies designed to determine the function of the 'y134.5 gene product, we discovered that infection of cells of neuronal origin with mutants incapable of expressing the y134.5 gene resulted in shutoffofcellular protein synthesis, whereas infection ofcells ofnonneuronal origin with wild-type or mutant viruses resulted in sustained protein synthesis and production of infectious progeny. (Some of the results reported in this article were presented at the 15th Internatiqnal Herpesvirus Workshop, July 7-12, 1991, Asilomar, CA.), MATERIALS AND METHODS Cels. Vero cells originally obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) were propagated in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DME medium) containing a b blVa'c' c a HSV-1(F) I J I