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Comparative Study
. 2003 Dec;84(Pt 12):3359-3370.
doi: 10.1099/vir.0.19452-0.

The human cytomegalovirus UL45 gene product is a late, virion-associated protein and influences virus growth at low multiplicities of infection

Marco Patrone  1 , Elena Percivalle  2 , Massimiliano Secchi  1 , Loretta Fiorina  1 , Guido Pedrali-Noy  1 , Monica Zoppé  3 , Fausto Baldanti  2 , Gabriele Hahn  4 , Ulrich H Koszinowski  4 , Gabriele Milanesi  5   1 , Andrea Gallina  5   1
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Comparative Study

The human cytomegalovirus UL45 gene product is a late, virion-associated protein and influences virus growth at low multiplicities of infection

Marco Patrone et al. J Gen Virol. 2003 Dec.

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  • J Gen Virol. 2004 Jul;85(Pt 7):2123

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) encodes a protein related to the large (R1) subunit of ribonucleotide reductase (RR), but does not encode the corresponding small (R2) subunit. The R1 homologue, UL45, lacks many catalytic residues, and its impact on deoxyribonucleotide (dNTP) production remains unknown. Here, UL45 is shown to accumulate at late stages of infection and to be a virion tegument protein. To study UL45 function in its genome context, UL45 was disrupted by transposon insertion. The UL45-knockout (UL45-KO) mutant exhibited a growth defect in fibroblasts at a low m.o.i. and also a cell-to-cell spread defect. This did not result from a reduced dNTP supply because dNTP pools were unchanged in resting cells infected with the mutant virus. Irrespective of UL45 expression, all cellular RR subunits - S-phase RR subunits, and the p53-dependent p53R2 - were induced by infection. p53R2 was targeted to the infected cell nucleus, suggesting that HCMV diverts a mechanism normally activated by DNA damage response. Cells infected with the UL45-KO mutant were moderately sensitized to Fas-induced apoptosis relative to those infected with the parental virus. Together with the report on the UL45-KO endotheliotropic HCMV mutant (Hahn et al., J Virol 76, 9551-9555, 2002), these data suggest that UL45 does not share the prominent antiapototic role attributed to the mouse cytomegalovirus homologue M45 (Brune et al., Science 291, 303-305, 2001).

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