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Journal of Virology, October 1999, p. 8245-8255, Vol. 73, No. 10
Department of Molecular Genetics and
Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
Received 11 May 1999/Accepted 13 July 1999
Herpes simplex virus type 1 is capable of inhibiting host cell DNA
synthesis following lytic infection. However, the mechanism and nature
of potential effects on cell cycle progression have not been described.
In this report, we characterize the dysregulation of the cell cycle
following infection with the replication-incompetent virus
d106, where immediate-early gene expression is restricted to infected-cell polypeptide 0 (ICP0) and the expression of all other
viral genes is dramatically reduced or is not observed. Infection with
d106 resulted in the accumulation of cells in both the
G1/S and G2/M compartments, consistent with
cell cycle arrest at both checkpoints. The isogenic variant
d109, which does not express any viral proteins, failed to
induce this phenotype, suggesting that the expression of ICP0 is
crucial for cell cycle arrest. Analysis of global cellular gene
expression patterns following infection with d106 and
d109 revealed that a relatively small subset of cellular
genes were induced as a consequence of ICP0 expression. A number of
these genes induced in the presence of ICP0 are classically considered
p53-responsive genes, including p21, gadd45,
and mdm-2. However, infection with d106 of
cells with both alleles of p53 deleted resulted in the same cell cycle arrest phenotype and similar cellular gene expression patterns, suggesting that the expression of ICP0 results in cell cycle arrest potentially via p53-dependent and p53-independent mechanisms. In
addition, it was found that the effects of infection with
d106 on viral and cellular gene expression were similar to
the effects observed following treatment of cells with the histone
deacetylase inhibitor trichostatin A.
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Perturbation of Cell Cycle Progression and Cellular Gene
Expression as a Function of Herpes Simplex Virus ICP0
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