目的:研究单纯疱疹病毒Ⅱ型(HSV-2)潜伏相关转录体(LAT)开放读码框1(ORF1)的表达特点及其对Vero细胞活性的影响.方法:双酶切和测序验证本实验室构建的HSV-2 LAT ORF1真核表达载体pEGFP-ORF1,并以转染试剂盒Xfect介导其转染至Vero细胞,通过RT-PCR和绿色荧光蛋白检验其在细胞中的表达,用MTT法进行细胞活性分析.结果:重组质粒表达的融合蛋白主要集中细胞核,而空质粒表达的绿色荧光蛋白在细胞核和细胞质中分布均匀;重组质粒对Vero细胞没有损伤作用.结论:HSV-2 LAT ORF1影响了绿色荧光蛋白的分布,可降低空质粒对细胞的损伤作用;其作用位点可能主要定位在细胞核中,为阐明HSV-2 LAT ORF1在潜伏复发中的功能奠定了实验基础. 相似文献
目的:研究单纯疱疹病毒Ⅱ型(HSV-2)潜伏相关转录体(LAT)开放读码框3(ORF3)的表达特点及其对细胞活性的影响。方法:双酶切和测序验证本实验室构建的HSV-2 LAT ORF3真核表达载体pEGFP-C2/LAT-ORF3的可用性,并将其转染入vero细胞,通过荧光和RT-PCR检验其在细胞中的表达,用MTT法进行细胞活性分析。结果:融合蛋白在细胞核中大量集中,且影响了绿色荧光蛋白在细胞中的分布;重组质粒对Vero细胞没有损伤作用。结论:HSV-2 LAT ORF3可抵消空质粒对细胞的损伤作用;其作用靶点可能主要存在于细胞核中,为阐明HSV-2 LAT ORF3在潜伏复发中的功能提供了实验基础。 相似文献
The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) open reading frame 62 encodes an immediate-early protein (IE62) that transactivates expression of various VZV promoters and autoregulates its own expression in transient expression assays. In Vero cells, IE62 was shown to transactivate the expression of all putative immediate-early (IE) and early (E) genes of VZV with an up-regulating effect at low intracellular concentrations. To define the functional domains involved in the regulatory properties of IE62, a large number of in-frame insertions and deletions were introduced into a plasmid-borne copy of the gene encoding IE62. Studies of the regulatory activities of the resultant mutant polypeptides in transient expression assays allowed to delineate protein regions important for repression of its own promoter and for transactivation of a VZV putative immediate-early gene (ORF61) promoter and an early gene (ORF29) promoter. This mutational analysis resulted in the identification of a new functional domain situated at the border between regions 4 and 5 which plays a crucial role in the IE62 regulatory functions. This domain turned out to be very well conserved amongst homologous alphaherpesvirus regulatory proteins and appeared to be rich in bulky hydrophobic and proline residues, similar to the proline-rich region of the CAAT box binding protein CTF-1. By immunofluorescence, a nuclear localization signal has been mapped in region 3. 相似文献
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a neurotropic alphaherpesvirus that causes chickenpox and shingles. ORF7 is an important virulence determinant of VZV in both human skin and nerve tissues, however, its specific function and involved molecular mechanism in VZV pathogenesis remain largely elusive. Previous yeast two-hybrid studies on intraviral protein-protein interaction network in herpesviruses have revealed that VZV ORF7 may interact with ORF53, which is a virtually unstudied but essential viral protein. The aim of this study is to identify and characterize VZV ORF53, and to investigate its relationship with ORF7. For this purpose, we prepared monoclonal antibodies against ORF53 and, for the first time, characterized it as a ~40 kDa viral protein predominantly localizing to the trans-Golgi network of the infected host cell. Next, we further confirmed the interaction between ORF7 and ORF53 by co-immunoprecipitation and co-localization studies in both plasmid-transfected and VZV-infected cells. Moreover, interestingly, we found that ORF53 lost its trans-Golgi network localization and became dispersed in the cytoplasm of host cells infected with an ORF7-deleted recombinant VZV, and thus ORF7 seems to play a role in normal subcellular localization of ORF53. Collectively, these results suggested that ORF7 and ORF53 may function as a complex during infection, which may be implicated in VZV pathogenesis.
Based on the genomic sequence data of Escherichia coli K-12strain, we have constructed a complete set of cloned individualgenes encoding Histidine-tagged proteins with or without GFPfused for functional genomic analysis. Each clone encodes aprotein of predicted ORF attached by Histidines and seven spaceramino acids at the N-terminal end, and five spacer amino acidsand GFP at the C-terminal end. SfiI restriction sites are generatedat both the N- and C-terminal boundaries of ORF upon cloning,which enables easy transfer of ORF to other vector systems bycutting with SfiI. Expression of cloned ORF is under the controlof an IPTG-inducible promoter, which is strictly repressed bylacIq repressor gene product. The set of cloned ORFs describedhere should provide unique resources for systematic functionalgenomic approaches including (i) construction of DNA microarray,(ii) production and purification of proteins, (iii) analysisof protein localization by monitoring GFP fluorescence and (iv)analysis of protein–protein interaction. 相似文献
Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) open reading frame 29 (ORF29) encodes a single-stranded DNA binding protein. During lytic infection, ORF29p is localized primarily to infected-cell nuclei, whereas during latency it appears in the cytoplasm of infected neurons. Following reactivation, ORF29p accumulates in the nucleus. In this report, we analyze the cellular localization patterns of ORF29p during VZV infection and during autonomous expression. Our results demonstrate that ORF29p is excluded from the nucleus in a cell-type-specific manner and that its cellular localization pattern may be altered by subsequent expression of VZV ORF61p or herpes simplex virus type 1 ICP0. In these cases, ORF61p and ICP0 induce nuclear accumulation of ORF29p in cell lines where it normally remains cytoplasmic. One cellular system utilized by ICP0 to influence protein abundance is the proteasome degradation pathway. Inhibition of the 26S proteasome, but not heat shock treatment, resulted in accumulation of ORF29p in the nucleus, similar to the effect of ICP0 expression. Immunofluorescence microscopy and pulse-chase experiments reveal that stabilization of ORF29p correlates with its nuclear accumulation and is dependent on a functional nuclear localization signal. ORF29p nuclear translocation in cultured enteric neurons and cells derived from an astrocytoma is reversible, as the protein's distribution and stability revert to the previous states when the proteasomal activity is restored. Thus, stabilization of ORF29p leads to its nuclear accumulation. Although proteasome inhibition induces ORF29p nuclear accumulation, this is not sufficient to reactivate latent VZV or target the immediate-early protein ORF62p to the nucleus in cultured guinea pig enteric neurons. 相似文献
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