Transactivation of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Immediate-Early Gene Expression by Virion-Associated Factors Is Blocked by an Inhibitor of Cyclin-Dependent Protein Kinases
AUTOR(ES)
Jordan, Robert
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Initiation of productive infection by human herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) requires cell cycle-dependent protein kinase (cdk) activity. Treatment of cells with inhibitors of cdks blocks HSV-1 replication and prevents accumulation of viral transcripts, including immediate-early (IE) transcripts (26). Inhibition of IE transcript accumulation suggests that virion proteins, such as VP16, require functional cdks to activate viral transcription. In this report, we show that a cdk inhibitor, Roscovitine, blocks VP16-dependent IE gene expression. In the presence of Roscovitine, the level of virion-induced activation of a transfected reporter gene (the gene encoding chloramphenicol acetyltransferase) linked to the promoter-regulatory region of the ICP0 gene was reduced 40-fold relative to that of untreated samples. Roscovitine had little effect on the interaction of VP16 with VP16-responsive DNA sequences as measured by electrophoretic mobility shift assays. These data indicate that VP16-dependent activation of IE gene expression requires functional cdks and that this requirement is independent of the ability of VP16 to bind to DNA.
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