Journal
VIROLOGY
Volume 474, Issue -, Pages 82-93Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.034
Keywords
African swine fever virus (ASFV); Type II DNA topoisomerase; P1192R
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) [PTDC/CVT/105630/2008, SFRH/BD/48654/2008]
- European Union, ASFORCE [311931]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/CVT/105630/2008, SFRH/BD/48654/2008] Funding Source: FCT
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Topoisomerases modulate the topological state of DNA during processes, such as replication and transcription, that cause overwinding and/or underwinding of the DNA. African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a nucleo-cytoplasmic double-stranded DNA virus shown to contain an OFR (P1192R) with homology to type II topoisomerases. Here we observed that pP1192R is highly conserved among ASFV isolates but dissimilar from other viral, prokaryotic or eukaryotic type II topoisomerases. In both ASFV/Ba71V-infected Vero cells and ASFV/L60-infected pig macrophages we detected pP1192R at intermediate and late phases of infection, cytoplasmically localized and accumulating in the viral factories. Finally, we used a Saccharomyces cerevisiae temperature-sensitive strain in order to demonstrate, through complementation and in vitro decatenation assays, the functionality of P1192R, which we further confirmed by mutating its predicted catalytic residue. Overall, this work strengthens the idea that P1192R constitutes a target for studying, and possibly controlling, ASFV transcription and replication. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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