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Journal of Virology, February 2001, p. 1656-1663, Vol. 75, No. 4
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.4.1656-1663.2001

Role of Vaccinia Virus A20R Protein in DNA Replication: Construction and Characterization of Temperature-Sensitive Mutants

Koji Ishii and Bernard Moss*

Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Received 4 October 2000/Accepted 15 November 2000

Previous analyses of randomly generated, temperature-sensitive vaccinia virus mutants led to the mapping of DNA synthesis negative complementation groups to the B1R, D4R, D5R, and E9L genes. Evidence from the yeast two-hybrid system that the D4R and D5R proteins can interact with the A20R protein suggested that A20R was also involved in DNA replication. We found that the A20R gene was transcribed early after infection, consistent with such a role. To investigate the function of the A20R protein, targeted mutations were made by substituting alanines for charged amino acids occurring in 11 different clusters. Four mutants were not isolated, suggesting that they were lethal, two mutants exhibited no temperature sensitivity, two mutants exhibited partial temperature sensitivity, and two mutants formed no plaques or infectious virus at 39°C. The two mutants with stringent phenotypes were further characterized. Temperature shift-up experiments indicated that the crucial period was between 6 and 12 h after infection, making it unlikely that the defect was in virus entry, early gene expression, or a late stage of virus assembly. Similar patterns of metabolically labeled viral early proteins were detected at permissive and nonpermissive temperatures, but one mutant showed an absence of late proteins under the latter conditions. Moreover, no viral DNA synthesis was detected when cells were infected with either stringent mutant at 39°C. The previous yeast two-hybrid analysis together with the present characterization of A20R temperature-sensitive mutants suggested that the A20R, D4R, and D5R proteins are components of a multiprotein DNA replication complex.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 4 Center Dr., MSC 0445, Bethesda, MD 20892-0455. Phone: (301) 496-9869. Fax: (301) 480-1147. E-mail: bmoss{at}nih.gov

Journal of Virology, February 2001, p. 1656-1663, Vol. 75, No. 4
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.4.1656-1663.2001


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