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. 1987 Aug;61(8):2480-8.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.61.8.2480-2488.1987.

Restriction of translation of capped mRNA in vitro as a model for poliovirus-induced inhibition of host cell protein synthesis: relationship to p220 cleavage

R E Lloyd, H G Jense, E Ehrenfeld

Restriction of translation of capped mRNA in vitro as a model for poliovirus-induced inhibition of host cell protein synthesis: relationship to p220 cleavage

R E Lloyd et al. J Virol. 1987 Aug.

Abstract

Poliovirus infection of HeLa cells results in a rapid inhibition of host protein synthesis by a mechanism that does not affect the translation of poliovirus RNA. It has been suggested that this virus-induced translational control results from inactivation of the cap-binding protein complex, and it has been shown that the 220-kilodalton component(s) (p220) of the cap-binding protein complex is cleaved in infected HeLa cells to form antigenically related polypeptides of 100 to 130 kilodaltons. We have previously described an activity in infected cells that specifically restricts translation of capped mRNA in rabbit reticulocyte lysates. Here, we describe further refinements and characterization of restriction assay. We determined that the assay is a good in vitro model for study of host cell shutoff by several criteria: (i) translation was inhibited in both instances at the step involving mRNA binding to ribosomes; (ii) translation of capped mRNA was specifically inhibited, whereas translation of poliovirus RNA was not; (iii) restriction activity appeared in infected cells with kinetics which parallel host cell shutoff; and (iv) restriction activity, like the specific inhibition of host translation, appeared in cells infected in the presence of guanidine-HCl. The restricting activity was partially purified from poliovirus-infected cells and was compared with the virus-induced p220 cleavage activity. Both activities copurified through numerous cell fractionation and biochemical fractionation procedures. However, specific restriction of capped mRNA translation in reticulocyte lysates occurred without complete cleavage of the endogenous p220.

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