隐性感染期间由简单疹病毒1表达的microRNAs调节病毒mRNAs
Jennifer Lin Umbach1, Martha F Kramer, Igor Jurak
1Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and Center for Virology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Nature
|July 4, 2008
概括
简单疹病毒1 (HSV-1) 延迟涉及来自延迟相关转录 (LAT) 和其他病毒转录的微RNA (miRNA). 这些miRNAs调节关键的病毒蛋白质,可能解释HSV-1如何建立终身感染.
科学领域:
- 病毒学 病毒学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 基因规则 基因规则
背景情况:
- 疹病毒会导致终身潜伏感染,但人们对这种机制的了解很少.
- 简单疹病毒1 (HSV-1) 延迟发生在神经元中,延迟相关转录 (LAT) 是一个关键的病毒产物.
- 在延迟维护和重新激活中LAT的作用尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究延迟相关转录 (LAT) 在HSV-1延迟中的功能.
- 在潜伏期内识别和描述HSV-1编码的microRNA (miRNA).
- 了解这些病毒miRNAs如何调节病毒基因表达并促进延迟.
主要方法:
- 分析HSV-1感染细胞和潜伏感染的三腺.
- 病毒微RNA (miRNA) 及其前体的识别和表征.
- 评估病毒基因表达的miRNA介导的转录后调节 (ICP0和ICP4).
主要成果:
- HSV-1延迟关联转录 (LAT) 作为四种不同的微RNA (miRNA) 的前体.
- 一个miRNA,miR-H2-3p,针对ICP0蛋白,在转录后减少其表达.
- 第五个miRNA,miR-H6,来自单独的转录,准ICP4mRNA,抑制其表达.
结论:
- 在潜伏期内,HSV-1表达多个主要miRNA前体,包括LAT.
- 这些病毒miRNAs,如miR-H2-3p和miR-H6,在转录后调节必要的病毒蛋白质 (ICP0,ICP4).
- 这种miRNA介导的调节可能有助于建立和维持HSV-1潜伏期.
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