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Published on: April 17, 2026
PARP-1 interaction with VP1 capsid protein regulates polyomavirus early gene expression
Mariarosaria Carbone1, Anna Reale, Annarita Di Sauro
1Pasteur Institute-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnology and Hematology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Abstract:
Poly(ADP-ribose)polymerases are involved in fundamental cellular events as well as they seem to be associated to some viral infection process. In this work, the poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase-1 (PARP-1) role in the polyomavirus life cycle has been investigated. Early viral transcription was reduced by competitive inhibitors of PARPs in Swiss 3T3 cells and almost abolished in PARP-1 knockout fibroblasts and in wild-type fibroblasts when PARP-1 was silenced by RNA interference. In vivo chromatin immunoprecipitation assays showed that poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation (poly(ADP-ribose)) facilitates the release of the capsid protein viral protein 1 (VP1) from the chromatin of infecting virions. In vitro experiments demonstrated that VP1 stimulates the enzymatic activity of PARP-1 and binds non-covalently both protein-free and PARP-1-bound poly(ADP-ribose). Our studies suggest that PARP-1 promotes the complete VP1 displacement from viral DNA favouring the viral early transcription.
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