Chromosome Binding Site of Latency-Associated Nuclear Antigen of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Is Essential for Persistent Episome Maintenance and Is Functionally Replaced by Histone H1
AUTOR(ES)
Shinohara, Hirohiko
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Latency-associated nuclear antigen 1 (LANA1) of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV; human herpesvirus 8) persistently maintains a plasmid containing the KSHV latent origin of replication (oriP) as a closed circular episome in dividing cells. In this study, we investigated the involvement of chromosome binding activity of LANA1 in persistent episome maintenance. Deletion of the N-terminal 22 amino acids of LANA1 (ΔN-LANA) inhibited the interaction with mitotic chromosomes in a human cell line, and the mutant concomitantly lost activity for the long-term episome maintenance of a plasmid containing viral oriP in a human B-cell line. However, a chimera of ΔN-LANA with histone H1, a cellular chromosome component protein, rescued the association with mitotic chromosomes as well as the long-term episome maintenance of the oriP-containing plasmid. Our results suggest that tethering of KSHV episomes to mitotic chromosomes by LANA1 is crucial in mediating the long-term maintenance of viral episomes in dividing cells.
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