MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
J Virol. 2013 Feb;87(4):2174-85. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02950-12. Epub 2012 Dec 5.
Upon the entry of the viral genome into the nucleus, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) gene expression is rapidly repressed by constitutively expressed cellular proteins. This intrinsic antiviral defense is normally counteracted by ICP0, which allows virus infection to proceed efficiently. Replication of ICP0-null mutant HSV-1, however, is severely repressed by mechanisms that are conferred, at least in part, by nuclear domain 10 (ND10) components, including hDaxx, the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) protein, and Sp100. To investigate if these ND10 components repress viral gene expression in a cooperative manner, we simultaneously depleted host cells for hDaxx, PML, and Sp100 by multiple short hairpin RNA (shRNA) knockdown from a single lentivirus vector. We found that replication and gene expression of ICP0-null mutant HSV-1 were cooperatively repressed by hDaxx, PML, and Sp100 immediately upon infection, and all stages of virus replication were inhibited. Plaque-forming efficiency was enhanced at least 50-fold in the triple-depleted cells, a much larger increase than achieved by depletion of any single ND10 protein. Similar effects were also observed during infection of triple-depleted cells with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). Moreover, using a cell culture model of quiescent infection, we found that triple depletion resulted in a much larger number of viral genomes escaping repression. However, triple depletion was unable to fully overcome the ICP0-null phenotype, implying the presence of additional repressive host factors, possibly components of the SUMO modification or DNA repair pathways. We conclude that several ND10 components cooperate in an additive manner to regulate HSV-1 and HCMV infection.
当病毒基因组进入细胞核后,单纯疱疹病毒 1 型(HSV-1)的基因表达会迅速被细胞中持续表达的蛋白抑制。这种内在的抗病毒防御机制通常会被 ICP0 所抵消,以促进病毒的有效感染。然而,ICP0 缺失突变的 HSV-1 病毒的复制会受到严重抑制,这种抑制机制至少部分是由核域 10(ND10)的成分介导的,包括 hDaxx、早幼粒细胞白血病(PML)蛋白和 Sp100。为了研究这些 ND10 成分是否以协同的方式抑制病毒基因的表达,我们通过单个慢病毒载体中的多个短发夹 RNA(shRNA)敲低同时耗尽宿主细胞中的 hDaxx、PML 和 Sp100。我们发现,ICP0 缺失突变的 HSV-1 病毒在感染后立即通过 hDaxx、PML 和 Sp100 的协同作用被共同抑制,病毒复制的所有阶段都被抑制。在三敲低细胞中,空斑形成效率提高了至少 50 倍,比任何单个 ND10 蛋白的敲低效果都大得多。在三敲低细胞感染人巨细胞病毒(HCMV)时也观察到了类似的效果。此外,在静止感染的细胞培养模型中,我们发现三敲低导致更多的病毒基因组逃脱抑制。然而,三敲低并不能完全克服 ICP0 缺失突变的表型,这意味着存在其他抑制性的宿主因子,可能是 SUMO 修饰或 DNA 修复途径的成分。我们得出结论,几个 ND10 成分以累加的方式合作来调节 HSV-1 和 HCMV 的感染。