The herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1) VP22,is one of the most abundant HSV-1 tegument proteins with an average stoichiometry of 2 400 copies per virion and conserved among alphaherpesvirinae. Many functions are attri...The herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1) VP22,is one of the most abundant HSV-1 tegument proteins with an average stoichiometry of 2 400 copies per virion and conserved among alphaherpesvirinae. Many functions are attributed to VP22,including nuclear localization,chromatin binding,microtubule binding,induction of microtubule reorganization,intercellular transport,interaction with cellular proteins,such as template activating factor I(TAF-I) and nonmuscle myosin II A(NMIIA) ,and viral proteins including tegument protein VP16,pUS9 and pUL46,glycoprotein E(gE) and gD. Recently,many novel functions performed by the HSV-1 VP22 protein have been shown,including promotion of protein synthesis at late times in infection,accumulation of a subset of viral mRNAs at early times in infection and possible transcriptional regulation function.展开更多
The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) tegument proteins have important functions in the viral repli- cation process. In order to investigate the role of the HSV-1 tegument protein VP22 in viral replication, its tran...The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) tegument proteins have important functions in the viral repli- cation process. In order to investigate the role of the HSV-1 tegument protein VP22 in viral replication, its transcriptional regulation of viral promoters was investigated using the chloramphenicol acetyl- transferase (CAT) assay. The results indicate that VP22 exerts a dose-dependent transcriptional in- hibitory effect on the HSV-1 α4, TK, and gC gene promoters. VP22 had the capacity to repress tran- scriptional activation of promoters via different viral transcription regulatory factors such as VP16 and ICP0, as evidenced by the specific repression of the TK and gC gene promoters by ICP0. In addition, VP22 was capable of inhibiting the promotion of ICP0 transcriptional activation in the presence of HAT PCAF, which is even more remarkable than the VP22 repression of ICP0 transcriptional activation. Fi- nally, the transcriptional inhibitory effect of VP22 on other viral promoters was demonstrated by the analysis of β-galactosidase activities in internal controls.展开更多
Morphogenesis and maturation of viral particles is an essential step of viral replication.An infectious herpesviral particle has a multilayered architecture,and contains a large DNA genome,a capsid shell,a tegument an...Morphogenesis and maturation of viral particles is an essential step of viral replication.An infectious herpesviral particle has a multilayered architecture,and contains a large DNA genome,a capsid shell,a tegument and an envelope spiked with glycoproteins.Unique to herpesviruses,tegument is a structure that occupies the space between the nucleocapsid and the envelope and contains many virus encoded proteins called tegument proteins.Historically the tegument has been described as an amorphous structure,but increasing evidence supports the notion that there is an ordered addition of tegument during virion assembly,which is consistent with the important roles of tegument proteins in the assembly and egress of herpesviral particles.In this review we first give an overview of the herpesvirus assembly and egress process.We then discuss the roles of selected tegument proteins in each step of the process,i.e.,primary envelopment,deenvelopment,secondary envelopment and transport of viral particles.We also suggest key issues that should be addressed in the near future.展开更多
Tegument is the unique structure of a herpesvirion which occupies the space between nucleocapsid and envelope. Accumulating data have indicated that inter- actions among tegument proteins play a key role in virion mor...Tegument is the unique structure of a herpesvirion which occupies the space between nucleocapsid and envelope. Accumulating data have indicated that inter- actions among tegument proteins play a key role in virion morphogenesis. Morphogenesis of gam- maherpesviruses including Kaposi＇s sarcoma-associ- ated herpesvirus （KSHV） and Epstein-Barr virus （EBV） is poorly understood due to the lack of efficient de novo lytic replication in cell culture. Murine gammaherpesvi- rus-68 （MHV-68） is genetically related to these two human herpesviruses and serves as an effective model to study the lytic replication of gammaherpesviruses. We previously showed that ORF33 of MHV-68 encodes a tegument protein and plays an essential role in virion maturation in the cytoplasm. However, the molecular mechanism of how ORF33 participates in virion mor- phogenesis has not been elucidated. In this study we demonstrated that ORF38 of MHV-68 is also a tegument protein and is localized to cytoplasmic compartments during both transient transfection and viral infection. Immuno-gold labeling assay showed that ORF38 is only present on virions that have entered the cytoplasmic vesicles, indicating that ORF38 is packaged into virions during secondary envelopment. We further showed that ORF38 co-localizes with ORF33 during viral infection; therefore, the interaction between ORF38 and ORF33 is conserved among herpesviruses. Notably, we found that although ORF33 by itself is distributed in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm, in the presence of ORF38, ORF33 is co-localized to trans-Golgi network （TGN）, a site where secondary envelopment takes place.展开更多
The in vivo effects of a single dose of levo-praziquantel,75 mg/kg in PEG 400,on the tegumental surface of adult S.japonicum were compared with the effects of a single dose(150mg/kg) of the mixed isomer preparation,us...The in vivo effects of a single dose of levo-praziquantel,75 mg/kg in PEG 400,on the tegumental surface of adult S.japonicum were compared with the effects of a single dose(150mg/kg) of the mixed isomer preparation,using scanning and transmission electron microscope.Worms were recovered from展开更多
Chickenpox(varicella) is caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus(VZV), which can establish long-term latency in the host ganglion. Once reactivated, the virus can cause shingles(zoster) in the host. VZ...Chickenpox(varicella) is caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus(VZV), which can establish long-term latency in the host ganglion. Once reactivated, the virus can cause shingles(zoster) in the host. VZV has a typical herpesvirus virion structure consisting of an inner DNA core, a capsid, a tegument, and an outer envelope. The tegument is an amorphous layer enclosed between the nucleocapsid and the envelope, which contains a variety of proteins. However, the types and functions of VZV tegument proteins have not yet been completely determined. In this review, we describe the current knowledge on the multiple roles played by VZV tegument proteins during viral infection. Moreover, we discuss the VZV tegument protein-protein interactions and their impact on viral tissue tropism in SCID-hu mice. This will help us develop a better understanding of how the tegument proteins aid viral DNA replication, evasion of host immune response, and pathogenesis.展开更多
Schistosomes cause schistosomiasis disease which severely threatens human health. Little is known about the functions of EF-hand domain containing schistosomes tegument proteins other than as an-tigens. More possible ...Schistosomes cause schistosomiasis disease which severely threatens human health. Little is known about the functions of EF-hand domain containing schistosomes tegument proteins other than as an-tigens. More possible functions of these tegument proteins were investigated with in silico analyses including protein-protein functional interaction,site-specific variation and glycosylation modification. The analysis results suggested that schistosomes could actively modulate host immune responses for its own favor through functional interactions with host proteins with immunomodulatory function,and passively regulate host immune responses through sequence variation under positive selection and glycosylating the recognition sites of host immune attack. In addition,the analysis of the C-terminal domain of these tegument proteins indicated that they could assist schistosomes in escaping host immune attacks through inhibiting chemotaxis and non-complement fixing antibody (IgG4) responses. In summary,our results suggested that these tegument antigen proteins could assist schistosomes in escaping and modulating host immune responses for self-protection during the process of host-para-site interaction.展开更多
基金The Startup Fund of the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Science (20071010- 141)National Natural Science Foundation of China (30870120)Open Research Fund Program of the State Key Laboratory of Virology of China (2007003, 2009007)
文摘The herpes simplex virus type 1(HSV-1) VP22,is one of the most abundant HSV-1 tegument proteins with an average stoichiometry of 2 400 copies per virion and conserved among alphaherpesvirinae. Many functions are attributed to VP22,including nuclear localization,chromatin binding,microtubule binding,induction of microtubule reorganization,intercellular transport,interaction with cellular proteins,such as template activating factor I(TAF-I) and nonmuscle myosin II A(NMIIA) ,and viral proteins including tegument protein VP16,pUS9 and pUL46,glycoprotein E(gE) and gD. Recently,many novel functions performed by the HSV-1 VP22 protein have been shown,including promotion of protein synthesis at late times in infection,accumulation of a subset of viral mRNAs at early times in infection and possible transcriptional regulation function.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 30570081,30670094 and 30700028)
文摘The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) tegument proteins have important functions in the viral repli- cation process. In order to investigate the role of the HSV-1 tegument protein VP22 in viral replication, its transcriptional regulation of viral promoters was investigated using the chloramphenicol acetyl- transferase (CAT) assay. The results indicate that VP22 exerts a dose-dependent transcriptional in- hibitory effect on the HSV-1 α4, TK, and gC gene promoters. VP22 had the capacity to repress tran- scriptional activation of promoters via different viral transcription regulatory factors such as VP16 and ICP0, as evidenced by the specific repression of the TK and gC gene promoters by ICP0. In addition, VP22 was capable of inhibiting the promotion of ICP0 transcriptional activation in the presence of HAT PCAF, which is even more remarkable than the VP22 repression of ICP0 transcriptional activation. Fi- nally, the transcriptional inhibitory effect of VP22 on other viral promoters was demonstrated by the analysis of β-galactosidase activities in internal controls.
基金supported by the“One Hundred Talents Program”the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Protein Science Project(No.2006CB910901)from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
文摘Morphogenesis and maturation of viral particles is an essential step of viral replication.An infectious herpesviral particle has a multilayered architecture,and contains a large DNA genome,a capsid shell,a tegument and an envelope spiked with glycoproteins.Unique to herpesviruses,tegument is a structure that occupies the space between the nucleocapsid and the envelope and contains many virus encoded proteins called tegument proteins.Historically the tegument has been described as an amorphous structure,but increasing evidence supports the notion that there is an ordered addition of tegument during virion assembly,which is consistent with the important roles of tegument proteins in the assembly and egress of herpesviral particles.In this review we first give an overview of the herpesvirus assembly and egress process.We then discuss the roles of selected tegument proteins in each step of the process,i.e.,primary envelopment,deenvelopment,secondary envelopment and transport of viral particles.We also suggest key issues that should be addressed in the near future.
基金We thank Drs. Ren Sun and Tao Xu for kindly providing plasmids, Mr. Shufeng Sun at the Center for Biological Imaging, Institute of Biophysics, for help with EM sample preparation and members of the Deng laboratory for helpful discussions. This work was sup- ported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 81171582） and the National Basic Research Program （973 Program） （No. 2011CB504300）.
文摘Tegument is the unique structure of a herpesvirion which occupies the space between nucleocapsid and envelope. Accumulating data have indicated that inter- actions among tegument proteins play a key role in virion morphogenesis. Morphogenesis of gam- maherpesviruses including Kaposi＇s sarcoma-associ- ated herpesvirus （KSHV） and Epstein-Barr virus （EBV） is poorly understood due to the lack of efficient de novo lytic replication in cell culture. Murine gammaherpesvi- rus-68 （MHV-68） is genetically related to these two human herpesviruses and serves as an effective model to study the lytic replication of gammaherpesviruses. We previously showed that ORF33 of MHV-68 encodes a tegument protein and plays an essential role in virion maturation in the cytoplasm. However, the molecular mechanism of how ORF33 participates in virion mor- phogenesis has not been elucidated. In this study we demonstrated that ORF38 of MHV-68 is also a tegument protein and is localized to cytoplasmic compartments during both transient transfection and viral infection. Immuno-gold labeling assay showed that ORF38 is only present on virions that have entered the cytoplasmic vesicles, indicating that ORF38 is packaged into virions during secondary envelopment. We further showed that ORF38 co-localizes with ORF33 during viral infection; therefore, the interaction between ORF38 and ORF33 is conserved among herpesviruses. Notably, we found that although ORF33 by itself is distributed in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm, in the presence of ORF38, ORF33 is co-localized to trans-Golgi network （TGN）, a site where secondary envelopment takes place.
文摘The in vivo effects of a single dose of levo-praziquantel,75 mg/kg in PEG 400,on the tegumental surface of adult S.japonicum were compared with the effects of a single dose(150mg/kg) of the mixed isomer preparation,using scanning and transmission electron microscope.Worms were recovered from
基金supported by the Fujian Technological Innovation Platform Fund(2014Y2101)the Xiamen City Municipal Platform Fund(3502Z201410045,3502Z20131001)
文摘Chickenpox(varicella) is caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus(VZV), which can establish long-term latency in the host ganglion. Once reactivated, the virus can cause shingles(zoster) in the host. VZV has a typical herpesvirus virion structure consisting of an inner DNA core, a capsid, a tegument, and an outer envelope. The tegument is an amorphous layer enclosed between the nucleocapsid and the envelope, which contains a variety of proteins. However, the types and functions of VZV tegument proteins have not yet been completely determined. In this review, we describe the current knowledge on the multiple roles played by VZV tegument proteins during viral infection. Moreover, we discuss the VZV tegument protein-protein interactions and their impact on viral tissue tropism in SCID-hu mice. This will help us develop a better understanding of how the tegument proteins aid viral DNA replication, evasion of host immune response, and pathogenesis.
文摘Schistosomes cause schistosomiasis disease which severely threatens human health. Little is known about the functions of EF-hand domain containing schistosomes tegument proteins other than as an-tigens. More possible functions of these tegument proteins were investigated with in silico analyses including protein-protein functional interaction,site-specific variation and glycosylation modification. The analysis results suggested that schistosomes could actively modulate host immune responses for its own favor through functional interactions with host proteins with immunomodulatory function,and passively regulate host immune responses through sequence variation under positive selection and glycosylating the recognition sites of host immune attack. In addition,the analysis of the C-terminal domain of these tegument proteins indicated that they could assist schistosomes in escaping host immune attacks through inhibiting chemotaxis and non-complement fixing antibody (IgG4) responses. In summary,our results suggested that these tegument antigen proteins could assist schistosomes in escaping and modulating host immune responses for self-protection during the process of host-para-site interaction.
