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Low levels of herpes simplex virus thymidine- thymidylate kinase are not limiting for sensitivity to certain antiviral drugs or for latency in a mouse model.

Abstract：

:Herpes simplex virus mutant KG111 contains a nonsense mutation at codon 44 of the viral thymidine kinase (tk) gene and produces low amounts of a truncated tk polypeptide. We tested mutant KG111 and related viruses that specify varying amounts of similar truncated tk polypeptides for their sensitivities to antiviral nucleoside analogs at different temperatures using plaque reduction assays. The results of these assays showed that the nonsense mutation confers high resistance to bromovinyldeoxyuridine (BVdU) at any temperature and temperature-dependent resistance to acyclovir (ACV), buciclovir (BCV), ganciclovir (DHPG), and fluoroiodoarabinouracil (FIAU). Above relatively low threshold levels of tk that varied depending on the drug tested, viruses exhibited full sensitivity to ACV, BCV, DHPG, and FIAU at 34 degrees. Below these threshold levels, however, decreases in drug sensitivity were linear with decreases in tk levels, forming the basis of a pharmacological assay for tk gene expression. Studies of thymidine (TdR) anabolism in infected 143 tk-cells showed that when high TdR concentrations were added to the medium, KG111 directed thymidine monophosphate (TMP) formation at rates consonant with the amount of tk polypeptide produced by the mutant. When low concentrations to TdR were added to the medium, however, KG111 directed TMP formation at a rate similar to that directed by wild-type virus, indicating that the truncation of the tk polypeptide had little or no effect on tk activity at 34 degrees. Subsequent anabolism to thymidine diphosphate and thymidine triphosphate was reduced in KG111-infected cells, indicating a defect in TMP kinase activity that explains this mutant's resistance to BVdU. Despite the low levels of tk and TMP kinase activity expressed by KG111, this mutant established reactivatable latent infections as efficiently as wild-type virus in a mouse model.

journal_name

Virology

journal_title

Virology

authors

Coen DM,Irmiere AF,Jacobson JG,Kerns KM

doi

10.1016/0042-6822(89)90261-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-02-01 00:00:00

pages

221-31

issue

eissn

0042-6822

issn

1096-0341

journal_volume

168

pub_type

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Low levels of herpes simplex virus thymidine- thymidylate kinase are not limiting for sensitivity to certain antiviral drugs or for latency in a mouse model.