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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 75, 期 13, 页码 6143-6153出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.13.6143-6153.2001
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- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 AI000732] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [F32 AI010147, T32 AI00732S, F32 AI 10147] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [P01 NS 35138, P01 NS035138] Funding Source: Medline
In a previous study, we demonstrated that infected-cell polypeptide 0 (ICP0) is necessary for the efficient reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in primary cultures of latently infected trigeminal ganglion (TC) cells (W. P. Halford and P. A. Schaffer, J. Virol. 75:3240-3249, 2001), The present study was undertaken to determine whether ICP0 is sufficient to trigger HSV-1 reactivation in latently infected TG cells. To test this hypothesis, replication-defective adenovirus vectors that express wild-type and mutant forms of ICP0 under the control of a tetracycline response element (TRE) promoter were constructed. Similar adenovirus vectors encoding wild-type ICP4, wild-type and mutant forms of the HSV-1 origin-binding protein (OBP), and wild-type and mutant forms of VP16 were also constructed. The TRE promoter was induced by coinfection of Vero cells with the test vector and an adenovirus vector that expresses the reverse tetracycline-regulated transactivator in the presence of doxycycline. Northern blot analysis demonstrated that transcription of the OEP gene in the adenovirus expression vector increased as a function of doxycycline concentration over a range of 0.1 to 10 muM, Likewise, Western blot analysis demonstrated that addition of 3 muM doxycycline to adenovirus vector-infected Vero cells resulted in a 100-fold increase in OBP expression. Wild-type forms of ICP0, ICP 1, OBP, and VP16 expressed from adenovirus vectors were functional based on their ability to complement plaque formation in Vero cells by replication-defective HSV-1 strains with mutations in these genes. Adenovirus vectors that express wild-type forms of ICP0, ICP4 or VP16 induced reactivation of HSV-1 in 86% +/- 5%, 86% +/- 5%, and 97% +/- 5% of TG cell cultures, respectively (means +/- standard deviations). In contrast, vectors that express wild-type OBP or mutant forms of ICP0, OBP, or VP16 induced reactivation in 5% +/- 5%, 8% +/- 0%, 0% +/- 0%, and 13% +/- 6% of TG cell cultures, respectively. In control infections, an adenovirus vector expressed green fluorescent protein efficiently in TG neurons but did not induce HSV-1 reactivation, Therefore, expression of ICP0, ICP4, or VP16 is sufficient to induce HSV-1 reactivation in latently infected TG cell cultures. We conclude that this system provides a powerful tool for determining which cellular acid viral proteins are sufficient to induce HSV-1 reactivation from neuronal latency.
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