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Modification of the major tegument protein pp65 of human cytomegalovirus inhibits virus growth and leads to the enhancement of a protein complex with pUL69 and pUL97 in infected cells Free

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The tegument protein pp65 of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is abundant in lytically infected human foreskin fibroblasts (HFF), as well as in virions and subviral dense bodies (DB). Despite this, we showed previously that pp65 is dispensable for growth in HFF. In the process of refining a DB-based vaccine candidate, different HCMV mutants were generated, expressing a dominant HLA-A2-presented peptide of the IE1 protein fused to pp65. One of the mutant viruses (RV-VM1) surprisingly showed marked impairment in virus release from HFF. We hypothesized that analysis of the phenotypic alterations of RV-VM1 would provide insight into the functions of pp65, poorly defined thus far. RV-VM1 infection resulted in nuclear retention of the fusion protein and reorganization of nuclear inclusion bodies. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments suggested that wild-type (wt) pp65 and pp65–VM1 were substrates of the viral pUL97 kinase and formed a complex with the viral RNA-export protein pUL69 and with pUL97 in lysates of infected cells. No evidence for an impairment of pUL97 within this complex was found. However, RV-VM1 replication in infected cells was resistant to a pUL97 inhibitor, and pUL97 inhibitors mimicked the mutant in terms of pp65 being retained in the nucleus. The results suggest that the life cycle of RV-VM1 was impeded at the stages of early-late transcription, RNA export or capsid maturation. wt-pp65 may play a role at these stages of infection, and complex formation with pUL69 and pUL97 may be important for that function.

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Modification of the major tegument protein pp65 of human cytomegalovirus inhibits virus growth and leads to the enhancement of a protein complex with pUL69 and pUL97 in infected cells
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