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Modulation of Borna Disease Virus Phosphoprotein Nuclear Localization by the Viral Protein X Encoded in the Overlapping Open Reading Frame

Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Received 28 October 2002/ Accepted 22 April 2003

Borna disease virus (BDV) is a nonsegmented, negative-strand RNA virus that belongs to the Mononegavirales order. Unlike other animal viruses in this order, BDV replicates and transcribes in the nucleus of infected cells. Therefore, regulation of the intracellular movement of virus components must be critical for accomplishing the BDV life cycle in mammalian cells. Previous studies have demonstrated that BDV proteins are prone to accumulate in the nucleus of cells transiently transfected with each expression plasmid of the viral proteins. In BDV infection, however, cytoplasmic distribution of the viral proteins is frequently found in cultured cells and animal brains. In this study, to understand the modulation of subcellular localization of BDV proteins, we investigated the intracellular localization of the viral phosphoprotein (P). Transient-transfection analysis with a cDNA clone corresponding to a bicistronic transcript that expresses both viral X and P revealed that P efficiently localizes in the cytoplasm only when BDV X is expressed in the cells. Furthermore, our analysis revealed that the direct binding between X and P is necessary for the cytoplasmic localization of the P. Interestingly, we showed that X is not detectably expressed in the BDV-infected cells in which P is predominantly found in the nucleus, with little or no signal in the cytoplasm. These observations suggested that BDV P can modulate their subcellular localization through binding to X and that BDV may regulate the expression ratio of each viral product in infected cells to control the intracellular movement of the viral protein complexes. The results presented here provide a new insight into the regulation of the intracellular movement of viral proteins of a unique, nonsegmented, negative-strand RNA virus.

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