Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine.
Abstract
In HeLa cells, RNA polymerase I (Pol I)-mediated transcription is severely inhibited soon after infection with poliovirus. We have developed a gel retardation assay to analyze DNA-protein complexes formed at the Pol I promoter. We show here that two complexes (A and C) formed by nuclear extracts from uninfected cells disappear after infection of cells with poliovirus. In contrast, a new, rapidly migrating complex (D) is formed in virus-infected cell extract. This change in the mobility of gel-retarded complexes correlates well with the kinetics of inhibition of rRNA transcription in virus-infected cells. Incubation of nuclear extracts from mock-infected cells with bacterially expressed, purified poliovirus protease 3C results in the disappearance of complexes A and C with concomitant generation of complex D. A partially purified transcription factor fraction derived from uninfected cells that contains complex A is able to restore Pol I transcription when added to virus-infected cell extracts, suggesting that this complex plays an important role in Pol I transcription. These results suggest that poliovirus proteinase 3C may have an important role in the shutoff of Pol I transcription in cells infected with poliovirus.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
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