Influenza virus gene expression: control mechanisms at early and late times of infection and nuclear-cytoplasmic transport of virus-specific RNAs

Author:

Shapiro G I,Gurney T,Krug R M

Abstract

Single-stranded M13 DNAs specific for various influenza virus genomic segments were used to analyze the synthesis of virus-specific RNAs in infected cells. The results show that influenza virus infection is divided into two distinct phases. During the early phase, the syntheses of specific virion RNAs, viral mRNAs, and viral proteins were coupled. Thus, the NS (nonstructural) virion RNA was preferentially synthesized early, leading to the preferential synthesis of NS1 viral mRNA and NS1 protein; in contrast, M (matrix) RNA synthesis was delayed, leading to the delayed synthesis of M1 viral mRNA and M1 protein. This phase lasted for 2.5 h in BHK-21 cells, the time at which the rate of synthesis of all the viral mRNAs was maximal. During the second phase, the synthesis of all the virion RNAs remained at or near maximum until at least 5.5 h postinfection, whereas the rate of synthesis of all the viral mRNAs declined dramatically. By 4.5 h, the rate of synthesis of all the viral mRNAs was 5% of the maximum rate. Viral mRNA and protein syntheses were also not coupled, as the synthesis of all the viral proteins continued at maximum levels, indicating that protein synthesis during this phase was directed principally by previously synthesized viral mRNAs. Short pulses (3 min) with [3H]uridine and nonaqueous fractionation of cells were used to show that influenza virion RNA synthesis occurred in the nucleus, demonstrating that all virus-specific RNA synthesis was nuclear. Virion RNAs, like viral mRNAs, were efficiently transported to the cytoplasm at both early and late times of infection. In contrast, the full-length transcripts of the virion RNAs, which are the templates for virion RNA synthesis, were sequestered in the nucleus. Thus, the template RNAs, which were synthesized only at early times, remained in the nucleus to direct virion RNA synthesis throughout infection. These results enabled us to present an overall scheme for the control of influenza virus gene expression.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

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