The pseudorabies virus Us2 protein, a virion tegument component, is prenylated in infected cells

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Clase, AC
Lyman, MG
del Rio, T
Randall, JA
Calton, CM
Enquist, LW
Banfield, BW
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[1] Univ Colorado, Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Microbiol, Denver, CO 80262 USA
[2] Univ Colorado, Hlth Sci Ctr, Program Mol Biol, Denver, CO 80262 USA
[3] Princeton Univ, Dept Mol Biol, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
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10.1128/JVI.77.22.12285-12298.2003
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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The Us2 gene is conserved among alphaherpesviruses, but its function is not known. We demonstrate here that the pseudorabies virus (PRV) Us2 protein is synthesized early after infection and localizes to cytoplasmic vesicles and to the plasma membrane, despite the lack of a recognizable signal sequence or membrane-spanning domain. Us2 protein is also packaged as part of the tegument of mature virions. The Us2 carboxyterminal four amino acids comprise a CAAX motif, a well-characterized signal for protein prenylation. Treatment of infected cells with lovastatin, a drug that disrupts protein prenylation, changed the relative electrophoretic mobility of Us2 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. In addition, lovastatin treatment caused a dramatic relocalization of Us2 to cytoplasmic punctate structures associated with microtubules, which appeared to concentrate over the microtubule organizing center. When the CAAX motif was changed to GAAX and the mutant protein was synthesized from an expression plasmid, it concentrated in punctate cytoplasmic structures reminiscent of Us2 localization in infected cells treated with lovastatin. We suggest that prenylation of PRV Us2 protein is required for proper membrane association. Curiously, the Us2 protein isolated from purified virions does not appear to be prenylated. This is the first report to describe the prenylation of an alphaherpesvirus protein.
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