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Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 8133-8142, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
A Protein Encoded by the Latency-Related Gene of Bovine
Herpesvirus 1 Is Expressed in Trigeminal Ganglionic Neurons of
Latently Infected Cattle and Interacts with Cyclin-Dependent Kinase
2 during Productive Infection
Yunquan
Jiang,
Ashfaque
Hossain,
Maria Teresa
Winkler,
Todd
Holt,
Alan
Doster, and
Clinton
Jones*
Department of Veterinary and Biomedical
Sciences, Center for Biotechnology, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0905
Received 12 March 1998/Accepted 23 June 1998
Despite productive viral gene expression in the peripheral nervous
system during acute infection, the bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1)
infection cycle is blocked in sensory ganglionic neurons and
consequently latency is established. The only abundant viral transcript
expressed during latency is the latency-related (LR) RNA. LR gene
products inhibit S-phase entry, and binding of the LR protein (LRP) to
cyclin A was hypothesized to block cell cycle progression. This study
demonstrates LRP is a nuclear protein which is expressed in neurons of
latently infected cattle. Affinity chromatography indicated that LRP
interacts with cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (cdk2)-cyclin complexes or
cdc2-cyclin complexes in transfected human cells or infected bovine
cells. After partial purification using three different columns
(DEAE-Sepharose, Econo S, and heparin-agarose), LRP was primarily
associated with cdk2-cyclin E complexes, an enzyme which is necessary
for G1-to-S-phase cell cycle progression. During acute
infection of trigeminal ganglia or following dexamethasone-induced reactivation, BHV-1 induces expression of cyclin A in neurons (L. M. Schang, A. Hossain, and C. Jones, J. Virol. 70:3807-3814, 1996). Expression of S-phase regulatory proteins (cyclin A, for example) leads to neuronal apoptosis. Consequently, we
hypothesize that interactions between LRP and cell cycle regulatory
proteins promote survival of postmitotic neurons during acute infection and/or reactivation.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dept. of
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Center for Biotechnology,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Fair Street at East Campus Loop,
Lincoln, NE 68583-0905. Phone: (402) 472-1890. Fax: (402) 472-9690. E-mail: cj{at}unlinfo.unl.edu.

Present address: Virus Research Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 8133-8142, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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