Abstract:
:Cytomegaloviruses (CMVs) are large double-stranded DNA viruses that replicate slowly and cause life-long persisting infections in their hosts. To achieve this, the CMVs had to evolve numerous countermeasures against innate and adaptive immune responses. Induction of programmed cell death is one important host defense mechanism against intracellular pathogens such as viruses. For a multicellular organism, it is advantageous to let infected cells die in order to thwart viral replication and dissemination. For a virus, by contrast, it is better to inhibit cell death and keep infected cells alive until the viral replication cycle has been completed. As a matter of fact, the CMVs encode a number of proteins devoted to interfering with different forms of programmed cell death: apoptosis and necroptosis. In this review, we summarize the known functions of the four best characterized cell death inhibitors of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), which are encoded by open reading frames, M36, m38.5, m41.1, and M45. The viral proteins interact with key molecules within different cell death pathways, namely caspase-8, Bax, Bak, and RIP1/RIP3. In addition, we discuss which events during MCMV infection might trigger apoptosis or necrosis and how MCMV's countermeasures compare to those of other herpesviruses. Since both, MCMV and its natural host, are amenable to genetic manipulation, the mouse model for CMV infection provides a particularly suitable system to study mechanisms of cell death induction and inhibition.
journal_name
Med Microbiol Immunoljournal_title
Medical microbiology and immunologyauthors
Handke W,Krause E,Brune Wdoi
10.1007/s00430-012-0264-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-11-01 00:00:00pages
475-86issue
4eissn
0300-8584issn
1432-1831journal_volume
201pub_type
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