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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 14, Pages 6460-6471Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.14.6460-6471.2001
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The vaccinia virus A22R gene encodes a protein that is homologous to the bacterial enzyme RuvC and specifically cleaves and resolves four-way DNA Holliday junctions into linear duplex products. To investigate the role of the vaccinia virus Holliday junction resolvase during an infection, we constructed two recombinant viruses: vA22-HA, which has a short C-terminal epitope tag appended to the A22R open reading frame, and vA22i, in which the original A22R gene is deleted and replaced by an inducible copy. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blot analysis of extracts and purified virions from cells infected with vA22-HA revealed that the resolvase was expressed after the onset of DNA replication and incorporated into virion cores. vA22i exhibited a conditional replication defect. In the absence of an inducer, (i) viral protein synthesis was unaffected, (ii) late-stage viral DNA replication was reduced, (iii) most of the newly synthesized viral DNA remained in a branched or concatemeric form that caused it to be trapped at the application site during pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, (iv) cleavage of concatemer junctions was inhibited, and (v) virion morpho genesis was arrested at an immature stage. These data indicated multiple roles for the vaccinia virus Holliday junction resolvase in the replication and processing of viral DNA into unit-length genomes.
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