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Journal of Virology, September 2000, p. 8781-8784, Vol. 74, No. 18
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Protein Synthesis Shut-Off Induced by Influenza Virus Infection Is Independent of PKR Activity

Thomas Zürcher,dagger Rosa María Marión, and Juan Ortín*

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Received 25 February 2000/Accepted 26 June 2000

The role of PKR activity in influenza virus-induced cell shut-off was studied by infection of PKR+ or PKR- cell cultures and metabolic labeling in vivo. No differences in the synthesis of viral proteins or the decay of cellular protein synthesis were observed. To investigate the relevance of the inhibition of cellular pre-mRNA polyadenylation and nucleocytoplasmic transport in virus-induced shut-off, we carried out similar experiments with mutant viruses lacking C-terminal sequences of NS1 protein. No differences in the shut-off induced by mutant versus wild-type viruses were observed, indicating that these nuclear events are not relevant for shut-off. The analysis of cytoplasmic mRNA stability indicated that the accumulation of viral mRNA during the infection correlated with the progressive decay of cellular mRNA, in both the wild type and an NS1 deletion mutant.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34 91 585 4557. Fax: 34 91 585 4506. E-mail: jortin{at}cnb.uam.es.

dagger Present address: GlaxoWellcome Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, Hertsfordshire SG1 2NY, United Kingdom.

Journal of Virology, September 2000, p. 8781-8784, Vol. 74, No. 18
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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