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Purification of Viral DNA for the Identification of Associated Viral and Cellular Proteins
Published on: August 31, 2017
Identification of ribosome-associated viral and cellular basic proteins during the course of infection with herpes
A Greco1, W Bienvenut, J C Sanchez
1INSERM U369, Faculté de Médecine Lyon-R.T.H. Laennec, 7, Rue Guillaume Paradin, 69372 Lyon, France.
Abstract:
Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection induces severe alterations of the translational apparatus, including the phosphorylation of a few ribosomal proteins, and the progressive association of several nonribosomal proteins to ribosomes. Therefore, we hypothesized that ribosomes themselves could contribute to the HSV-1-induced translational control of host and viral gene expression. As a prerequisite to test this hypothesis, we undertook the identification of the nonribosomal proteins associated to the ribosomes during the course of HSV-1 infection. After separation by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of basic proteins extracted from the ribosomal fraction, the identification of unknown protein spots was carried out by N-terminal sequencing and peptide mass determination by mass spectrometry. This allowed us to identify HSV-1 VP19C and VP26 that associated to ribosomes with different kinetics. Another nonribosomal protein turned out to be the poly(A)-binding protein 1 (PAB1P). Newly synthesized PAB1P continued to associate to ribosomes all along infection.
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