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Herpes simplex virus type 1 oriL is not required for virus replication or for the establishment and reactivation of latent infection in mice.

Laboratory of Tumor Virus Genetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT

During the course of experiments designed to isolate deletion mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1 in the gene encoding the major DNA-binding protein, ICP8, a mutant, d61, that grew efficiently in ICP8-expressing Vero cells but not in normal Vero cells was isolated (P. K. Orberg and P. A. Schaffer, J. Virol. 61:1136-1146, 1987). d61 was derived by cotransfection of ICP8-expressing Vero cells with infectious wild-type viral DNA and a plasmid, pDX, that contains an engineered 780-base-pair (bp) deletion in the ICP8 gene, as well as a spontaneous approximately 55-bp deletion in oriL. Gel electrophoresis and Southern blot analysis indicated that d61 DNA carried both deletions present in pDX. The ability of d61 to replicate despite the deletion in oriL suggested that a functional oriL is not essential for virus replication in vitro. Because d61 harbored two mutations, a second mutant, ts+7, with a deletion in oriL-associated sequences and an intact ICP8 gene was constructed. Both d61 and ts+7 replicated efficiently in their respective permissive host cells, although their yields were slightly lower than those of control viruses with intact oriL sequences. An in vitro test of origin function of isolated oriL sequences from wild-type virus and ts+7 showed that wild-type oriL, but not ts+7 oriL, was functional upon infection with helper virus. In an effort to determine the requirement for oriL in latency, ts+7 was compared with wild-type virus for its ability to establish, maintain, and be reactivated from latent infection in a murine eye model. The mutant was reactivated as efficiently as was wild-type virus from trigeminal ganglia after cocultivation with permissive cells, and each of the seven reactivated isolates was shown to carry the approximately 150-bp deletion characteristic of ts+7. These observations demonstrate that oriL is not required for virus replication in vitro or for the establishment and reactivation of latent infection in vivo.

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