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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Dissecting herpes simplex virus 1-induced host shutoff at the RNA level |
| Creators Name: | Friedel, C.C., Whisnant, A.W., Djakovic, L., Rutkowski, A.J., Friedl, M.S., Kluge, M., Williamson, J.C., Sai, S., Vidal, R.O., Sauer, S., Hennig, T., Grothey, A., Milić, A., Prusty, B.K., Lehner, P.J., Matheson, N.J., Erhard, F. and Dölken, L. |
| Abstract: | Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) induces a profound host shut-off during lytic infection. The virion host shut-off (vhs) protein plays a key role in this process by efficiently cleaving host and viral mRNAs. Furthermore, the onset of viral DNA replication is accompanied by a rapid decline in host transcriptional activity. To dissect relative contributions of both mechanisms and elucidate gene-specific host transcriptional responses throughout the first 8h of lytic HSV-1 infection, we employed RNA-seq of total, newly transcribed (4sU-labelled) and chromatin-associated RNA in wild-type (WT) and Δvhs infection of primary human fibroblasts. Following virus entry, vhs activity rapidly plateaued at an elimination rate of around 30% of cellular mRNAs per hour until 8h p.i. In parallel, host transcriptional activity dropped to 10-20%. While the combined effects of both phenomena dominated infection-induced changes in total RNA, extensive gene-specific transcriptional regulation was observable in chromatin-associated RNA and was surprisingly concordant between WT and Δvhs infection. Both induced strong transcriptional up-regulation of a small subset of genes that were poorly expressed prior to infection but already primed by H3K4me3 histone marks at their promoters. Most interestingly, analysis of chromatin-associated RNA revealed vhs-nuclease-activity-dependent transcriptional down-regulation of at least 150 cellular genes, in particular of many integrin adhesome and extracellular matrix components. This was accompanied by a vhs-dependent reduction in protein levels by 8h p.i. for many of these genes. In summary, our study provides a comprehensive picture of the molecular mechanisms that govern cellular RNA metabolism during the first 8h of lytic HSV-1 infection. IMPORTANCE: The HSV-1 virion host shut-off (vhs) protein efficiently cleaves both host and viral mRNAs in a translation-dependent manner. In this study, we model and quantify changes in vhs activity as well as virus-induced global loss of host transcriptional activity during productive HSV-1 infection. In general, HSV-1-induced alterations in total RNA levels were dominated by these two global effects. In contrast, chromatin-associated RNA depicted gene-specific transcriptional changes. This revealed highly concordant transcriptional changes in WT and Δvhs infection, confirmed DUX4 as a key transcriptional regulator in HSV-1 infection and depicted vhs-dependent, transcriptional down-regulation of the integrin adhesome and extracellular matrix components. The latter explained seemingly gene-specific effects previously attributed to vhs-mediated mRNA degradation and resulted in a concordant loss in protein levels by 8h p.i. for many of the respective genes. |
| Keywords: | Fibroblasts, Herpes Simplex, Human Herpesvirus 1, Protein Biosynthesis, Proteome, Ribonucleases, Transcriptome, Viral Gene Expression Regulation, Viral Proteins, Viral RNA, Virus Replication |
| Source: | Journal of Virology |
| ISSN: | 0022-538X |
| Publisher: | American Society for Microbiology |
| Volume: | 95 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Page Range: | e01399-20 |
| Date: | 13 January 2021 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01399-20 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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