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Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Mutant in Which the ICP0 HUL-1 E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Site Is Disrupted Stabilizes cdc34 but Degrades D-Type Cyclins and Exhibits Diminished Neurotoxicity

Marjorie B. Kovler Viral Oncology Laboratories, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Received 11 July 2003/ Accepted 4 September 2003

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) is a multifunctional protein that functions as a promiscuous transactivator and promotes the degradation of multiple cellular proteins. In vitro studies indicated that it encodes two physically separated functional E3 ubiquitin ligase domains. One, designated herpesvirus ubiquitin ligase 1 (HUL-1), maps to a region encoded by exon 3 and is contained between residues 543 and 680. Deletion of amino acids 621 to 625 abolishes this activity. The second, designated HUL-2, maps to the RING finger domain present in ICP0 encoded by exon 2. Earlier studies have shown that ICP0 stabilizes cyclins D1 and D3, and several lines of investigation led to the hypothesis that this function of ICP0 is the consequence of degradation of the E2 enzyme cdc34, known to be involved in the proteasome-dependent degradation of D-type cyclins. Consistent with this hypothesis, we have previously shown that cdc34 physically interacts with ICP0 at or near aspartate 199 and at amino acids 621 to 625 and that the former site is required for effective ubiquitylation and degradation of cdc34. Furthermore, the ICP0 HUL-1 domain promotes the polyubiquitination of cdc34 in vitro. If the mechanism by which D-type cyclins are salvaged in wild-type-infected cells is dependent on polyubiquitination and consequent destruction of cdc34, than the mutant virus R6701, which was constructed for these studies and lacks ICP0 residues 621 to 625, should destabilize the D cyclins and preclude the degradation of cdc34. We report that ICP0 residues 621 to 625 are essential for degradation of cdc34 in infected cells and for the ICP0-mediated stabilization of D-type cyclins, that a mutation that specifically disrupted the ring finger domain of the HUL-2 site had no effect on the degradation of cdc34 in infected cells, and that deletion of ICP0 residues 621 to 625 decreased the replicative capacity of the virus in growth-arrested but not in dividing cells and resulted in diminished pathogenicity on intracerebral inoculation of mice. We conclude that the ICP0 HUL-1 domain acts in infected cells to degrade cdc34 and that this function requires the interaction of cdc34 with sequences in exons 2 and 3 but does not involve the HUL-2 RING finger E3 domain.

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