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Journal of Virology, January 2000, p. 560-563, Vol. 74, No. 1
0022-538X/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

MxA GTPase Blocks Reporter Gene Expression of Reconstituted Thogoto Virus Ribonucleoprotein Complexes

Friedemann Weber,dagger Otto Haller, and Georg Kochs*

Abteilung Virologie, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität Freiburg, D-79008 Freiburg, Germany

Received 12 July 1999/Accepted 20 September 1999

Human MxA protein accumulates in the cytoplasm of interferon-treated cells and inhibits the multiplication of several RNA viruses, including Thogoto virus (THOV), a tick-borne orthomyxovirus that transcribes and replicates its genome in the cell nucleus. The antiviral mechanism of MxA was investigated by using two alternative minireplicon systems in which recombinant viral ribonucleoprotein complexes (vRNPs) of THOV were reconstituted from cloned cDNAs. A chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter minigenome RNA was expressed either by T7 RNA polymerase in the cytoplasm of transfected cells or, alternatively, by RNA polymerase I in the nucleus. The inhibitory effect of MxA was studied in both cellular compartments by coexpressing wild-type MxA or TMxA, an artificial nuclear form of MxA. Our results indicate that both MxA proteins recognize the assembled vRNP rather than the newly synthesized unassembled components. The present findings are consistent with previous data which indicated that cytoplasmic MxA prevents transport of vRNPs into the nucleus, whereas nuclear MxA directly inhibits the viral polymerase activity in the nucleus.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Abteilung Virologie, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität Freiburg, D-79008 Freiburg, Germany. Phone: 49-761-2036623. Fax: 49-761-2036562. E-mail: KOCHS{at}UKL.UNI-FREIBURG.DE.

dagger Present address: Institute of Virology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G11 5JR, United Kingdom.

Journal of Virology, January 2000, p. 560-563, Vol. 74, No. 1
0022-538X/0/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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