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Journal of Virology, November 2003, p. 11408-11416, Vol. 77, No. 21
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.21.11408-11416.2003

Membrane Requirements for Uridylylation of the Poliovirus VPg Protein and Viral RNA Synthesis In Vitro

Mark H. Fogg,{dagger} Natalya L. Teterina, and Ellie Ehrenfeld*

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Received 7 April 2003/ Accepted 10 July 2003

Efficient translation of poliovirus (PV) RNA in uninfected HeLa cell extracts generates all of the viral proteins required to carry out viral RNA replication and encapsidation and to produce infectious virus in vitro. In infected cells, viral RNA replication occurs in ribonucleoprotein complexes associated with clusters of vesicles that are formed from preexisting intracellular organelles, which serve as a scaffold for the viral RNA replication complex. In this study, we have examined the role of membranes in viral RNA replication in vitro. Electron microscopic and biochemical examination of extracts actively engaged in viral RNA replication failed to reveal a significant increase in vesicular membrane structures or the protective aggregation of vesicles observed in PV-infected cells. Viral, nonstructural replication proteins, however, bind to heterogeneous membrane fragments in the extract. Treatment of the extracts with nonionic detergents, a membrane-altering inhibitor of fatty acid synthesis (cerulenin), or an inhibitor of intracellular membrane trafficking (brefeldin A) prevents the formation of active replication complexes in vitro, under conditions in which polyprotein synthesis and processing occur normally. Under all three of these conditions, synthesis of uridylylated VPg to form the primer for initiation of viral RNA synthesis, as well as subsequent viral RNA replication, was inhibited. Thus, although organized membranous structures morphologically similar to the vesicles observed in infected cells do not appear to form in vitro, intact membranes are required for viral RNA synthesis, including the first step of forming the uridylylated VPg primer for RNA chain elongation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Building 50, Room 6120, 9000 Rockville Pk., Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 594-1654. Fax: (301) 435-6021. E-mail: eehrenfeld{at}niaid.nih.gov.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.

Journal of Virology, November 2003, p. 11408-11416, Vol. 77, No. 21
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.21.11408-11416.2003




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