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Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 2575-2583, Vol. 75, No. 6
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.6.2575-2583.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Fluorescent Tagging of Herpes Simplex Virus
Tegument Protein VP13/14 in Virus Infection
Michelle
Donnelly and
Gillian
Elliott*
Virus Assembly Group, Marie Curie Research
Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, United Kingdom
Received 12 October 2000/Accepted 19 December 2000
The cellular site of herpesvirus tegument assembly has yet to be
defined. We have previously used a recombinant herpes simplex virus type 1 expressing a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged tegument protein, namely VP22, to show that VP22 is localized exclusively to the cytoplasm during infection. Here we have
constructed a similar virus expressing another fluorescent tegument
protein, YFP-VP13/14, and have visualized the intracellular
localization of this second tegument protein in live infected cells. In
contrast to VP22, VP13/14 is targeted predominantly to the nuclei of
infected cells at both early and late times in infection. More
specifically, YFP-13/14 localizes initially to the nuclear replication
compartments and then progresses into intense punctate domains that
appear at around 12 h postinfection. At even later times this
intranuclear punctate fluorescence is gradually replaced by perinuclear
micropunctate and membranous fluorescence. While the vast majority of
YFP-13/14 seems to be targeted to the nucleus, a minor subpopulation
also appears in a vesicular pattern in the cytoplasm that closely
resembles the pattern previously observed for GFP-22. Moreover, at late times weak fluorescence appears at the cell periphery and in
extracellular virus particles, confirming that YFP-13/14 is
assembled into virions. This predominantly nuclear targeting of
YFP-13/14 together with the cytoplasmic targeting of VP22 may imply
that there are multiple sites of tegument protein incorporation along
the virus maturation pathway. Thus, our YFP-13/14-expressing virus has
revealed the complexity of the intracellular targeting of
VP13/14 and provides a novel insight into the mechanism of tegument,
and hence virus, assembly.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Virus Assembly
Group, Marie Curie Research Institute, The Chart, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, United Kingdom. Phone: 441883 722306. Fax: 441883 714375. E-mail:
g.elliott{at}mcri.ac.uk.
Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 2575-2583, Vol. 75, No. 6
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.6.2575-2583.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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