Isolation and Characterization of vΔI3 Confirm that Vaccinia Virus SSB Plays an Essential Role in Viral Replication

Journal of Virology
Matthew D GresethP Traktman

Abstract

Vaccinia virus is unusual among DNA viruses in replicating exclusively in the cytoplasm of infected cells. The single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein (SSB) I3 is among the replication machinery encoded by the 195-kb genome, although direct genetic analysis of I3 has been lacking. Herein, we describe a complementing cell line (CV1-I3) that fully supports the replication of a null virus (vΔI3) lacking the I3 open reading frame (ORF). In noncomplementing CV1-CAT cells, vΔI3 shows a severe defect in the production of infectious virus (≥200-fold reduction). Early protein synthesis and core disassembly occur normally. However, DNA replication is profoundly impaired (≤0.2% of wild-type [WT] levels), and late proteins do not accumulate. When several other noncomplementing cell lines are infected with vΔI3, the yield of infectious virus is also dramatically reduced (168- to 1,776-fold reduction). Surprisingly, the residual levels of DNA accumulation vary from 1 to 12% in the different cell lines (CV1-CAT < A549 < BSC40 < HeLa); however, any nascent DNA that can be detected is subgenomic in size. Although this subgenomic DNA supports late protein expression, it does not support the production of infectious virions. Electron microsco...Continue Reading

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