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Recruitment of human cytomegalovirus immediate-early 2 protein onto parental viral genomes in association with ND10 in live-infected cells.

Abstract：

:The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) immediate-early 2 (IE2) transactivator has previously been shown to form intranuclear, dot-like accumulations in association with subnuclear structures known as promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) nuclear bodies or ND10. We recently observed that IE2 can form dot-like structures even after infection of PML knockdown cells, which lack genuine ND10. To further analyze the determinants of IE2 subnuclear localization, a recombinant HCMV expressing IE2 fused to the enhanced green fluorescent protein was constructed. We infected primary human fibroblasts expressing Sp100 fused to the autofluorescent protein mCherry while performing live-cell imaging experiments. These experiments revealed a very dynamic association of IE2 dots with ND10 structures during the first hours postinfection: juxtaposed structures rapidly fused to precise co-localizations, followed by segregation, and finally, the dispersal of ND10 accumulations. Furthermore, by infecting PML knockdown cells we determined that the number of IE2 accumulations was dependent on the multiplicity of infection. Since time-lapse microscopy in live-infected cells revealed that IE2 foci developed into viral replication compartments, we hypothesized that viral DNA could act as a determinant of IE2 accumulations. Direct evidence that IE2 molecules are associated with viral DNA early after HCMV infection was obtained using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Finally, a DNA-binding-deficient IE2 mutant could no longer be recruited into viral replication centers, suggesting that the association of IE2 with viral DNA is mediated by a direct DNA contact. Thus, we identified viral DNA as an important determinant of IE2 subnuclear localization, which suggests that the formation of a virus-induced nucleoprotein complex and its spatial organization is likely to be critical at the early stages of a lytic infection.

journal_name

J Virol

journal_title

Journal of virology

authors

Sourvinos G,Tavalai N,Berndt A,Spandidos DA,Stamminger T

doi

10.1128/JVI.01009-07

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-09-01 00:00:00

pages

10123-36

issue

eissn

0022-538X

issn

1098-5514

pii

JVI.01009-07

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Recruitment of human cytomegalovirus immediate-early 2 protein onto parental viral genomes in association with ND10 in live-infected cells.