A cell free protein fragment complementation assay for monitoring the core interaction of the human cytomegalovirus nuclear egress complex

Antiviral Research
Margit SchneeZsolt Ruzsics

Abstract

Certain viral protein-protein interactions provide attractive targets for antiviral drug development. Recently, we described a β-lactamase based protein fragment complementation assay (PCA) to study the core interaction of the nuclear egress complex (NEC) of different herpesviruses in cells. Now, to have a cell free assay for inhibitor screens, we expressed split β-lactamase tagged interaction domains of the viral pUL50 and pUL53 proteins representing the NEC of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in bacteria. After validation and basic characterization of this NEC-PCA, we tested peptide inhibitors of the pUL50-pUL53 complex. We show that peptides resembling sequences of the first conserved region of pUL53 can inhibit the NEC-PCA. This, on one hand, indicated that the core interaction in the HCMV NEC is mediated by a linear motif. On the other hand it proved that this new pUL50-pUL53 interaction assay allows a simple cell free test for small molecular inhibitors.

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