METABOLISM OF HOST AND VIRAL MESSENGER-RNAS IN FROG VIRUS 3-INFECTED CELLS

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作者
CHINCHAR, VG
YU, W
机构
[1] Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0042-6822(92)90008-D
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Treatment of purified frog virus 3 (FV3) with nonionic detergent and high salt released an endoribonucleolytic activity and confirmed earlier findings of a virion-associated endonuclease. This observation, coupled with evidence implicating host and viral message destabilization in herpesvirus and poxvirus biogenesis, raised the question of what role, if any, mRNA degradation plays in FV3 replication. To answer this question, Northern analyses of mock- and virus-infected cells were performed using probes for representative host and viral messages. These studies demonstrated that the steady state level of host messages progressively declined during the course of productive FV3 infection, whereas the steady state level of viral messages was not affected. To determine whether the decline in the steady state level of host mRNA was due to virus-induced degradation or to normal turnover coupled to virus-mediated transcriptional shut-off, actin mRNA levels were examined in mock- and virus-infected cells in the presence and absence of actinomycin D. Under these conditions, actin mRNA levels declined more quickly in actinomycin D-treated, virus-infected cells, than in mock-infected cells incubated in the presence of actinomycin D suggesting that the decline in the steady state level of actin mRNA was due to degradation. However, although it appears as if host message degradation is responsible for virus-mediated translational shut-off, the ability of heat-inactivated FV3 to block cellular translation without destabilizing cellular messages indicates that message degradation is not required for translational inhibition. As noted above, the degradation of early FV3 messages was not involved in controlling the transition from early to late gene expression. Furthermore, the presence of abundant, but nontranslated, early messages late in infection, coupled with the inefficient translation of late messages in vitro supported earlier suggestions that FV3 gene expression is controlled, at least in part, at the translational level. Taken together, these results suggest that FV3 regulates gene expression in a unique manner and may be a good model to examine the mechanics of translational control. © 1992.
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