Human Cytomegalovirus TRS1 and IRS1 Gene Products Block the Double-Stranded-RNA-Activated Host Protein Shutoff Response Induced by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection

Author:

Cassady Kevin A.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pediatrics, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 35233

Abstract

ABSTRACT Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) attachment and entry stimulates the expression of cellular interferon-inducible genes, many of which target important cellular functions necessary for viral replication. Double-stranded RNA-dependent host protein kinase (PKR) is an interferon-inducible gene product that limits viral replication by inhibiting protein translation in the infected cell. It was anticipated that HCMV encodes gene products that facilitate the evasion of this PKR-mediated antiviral response. Using a Δγ 1 34.5 herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) recombinant that triggers PKR-mediated protein synthesis shutoff, experiments identified an HCMV gene product expressed in the initial hours of infection that allows continued protein synthesis in the infected cell. Recombinant HSV-1 viruses expressing either the HCMV TRS1 or IRS1 protein demonstrate that either of these HCMV gene products allows the Δγ 1 34.5 recombinant viruses to evade PKR-mediated protein shutoff and maintain late viral protein synthesis.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

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