Shutoff on Neuroblastoma Cell Protein Synthesis by Semliki Forest Virus: Loss of Ability of Crude Initiation Factors to Recognize Early Semliki Forest Virus and Host mRNA's

AUTOR(ES)

van Steeg, Harry

RESUMO

A crude ribosomal wash containing the initiation factors of protein synthesis was isolated from mouse neuroblastoma cells 8 h after infection with Semliki Forest virus (SFV). The activity of this wash was compared with that of a wash from control cells in a cell-free protein-synthesizing “pH5” system, with early SFV mRNA (42S), late SFV mRNA (26S), encephalomyocarditis virus (EMC) mRNA, or neuroblastoma polyadenylated mRNA templates. A pronounced loss of activity (±80%) of the crude ribosomal wash from infected cells was observed with host mRNA (neuroblastoma polyadenylated mRNA) and early SFV mRNA, messengers which contain a cap structure at the 5′ terminus. However, these washes were only slightly less active in systems programmed with (noncapped) EMC mRNA and late SFV mRNA. Although late SFV mRNA (26S) is capped, the synthesis of late (= structural) proteins in infected lysates was insensitive to inhibition by cap analogs. Purified initiation factors eIF-4B (Mr, 80,000) and cap-binding protein (Mr, 24,000) from reticulocytes (but none of the others) were able to restore the activity of infected factors to about 90% of control levels in systems programmed with early SFV mRNA and host mRNA. These observations indicate that infection-exposed crude initiation factors have a decreased level of eIF-4B and cap-binding protein activity. However, after partial purification of these and other initiation factors from infected and control cells, we found no significant difference in activity when model assay systems were used. Furthermore, both eIF-4B and cap-binding protein from infected cells were able to restore the activity of these infection-exposed factors to the same level obtained when these factors isolated from control cells or reticulocytes were added. A possible mechanism for the shutoff of host cell protein synthesis is discussed.

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