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J Virol, July 1998, p. 6056-6064, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

UL27.5 Is a Novel gamma 2 Gene Antisense to the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Gene Encoding Glycoprotein B

Yijan E. Chang,1 Laura Menotti,2 Felix Filatov,1 Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume,2 and Bernard Roizman1,*

The Marjorie B. Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637,1 and Department of Experimental Pathology, Section on Microbiology and Virology, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy2

Received 17 February 1998/Accepted 17 April 1998

An antibody made against the herpes simplex virus 1 US5 gene predicted to encode glycoprotein J was found to react strongly with two proteins, one with an apparent Mr of 23,000 and mapping in the S component and one with a herpes simplex virus protein with an apparent Mr of 43,000. The antibody also reacted with herpes simplex virus type 2 proteins forming several bands with apparent Mrs ranging from 43,000 to 50,000. Mapping studies based on intertypic recombinants, analyses of deletion mutants, and ultimately, reaction of the antibody with a chimeric protein expressed by in-frame fusion of the glutathione S-transferase gene to an open reading frame antisense to the gene encoding glycoprotein B led to the definitive identification of the new open reading frame, designated UL27.5. Sequence analyses indicate the conservation of a short amino acid sequence common to US5 and UL27.5. The coding sequence of the herpes simplex virus UL27.5 open reading frame is strongly homologous to the sequence encoding the carboxyl terminus of the herpes simplex virus 2 UL27.5 sequence. However, both open reading frames could encode proteins predicted to be significantly larger than the mature UL27.5 proteins accumulating in the infected cells, indicating that these are either processed posttranslationally or synthesized from alternate, nonmethionine-initiating codons. The UL27.5 gene expression is blocked by phosphonoacetate, indicating that it is a gamma 2 gene. The product accumulated predominantly in the cytoplasm. UL27.5 is the third open reading frame found to map totally antisense to another gene and suggests that additional genes mapping antisense to known genes may exist.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Marjorie B. Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, The University of Chicago, 910 E. 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637. Phone: (773) 702-1898. Fax: (773) 702-1631. E-mail: bernard{at}kovler.uchicago.edu.

J Virol, July 1998, p. 6056-6064, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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