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Journal of Virology, January 2008, p. 828-839, Vol. 82, No. 2
0022-538X/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.02023-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Paramyxovirus-Induced Shutoff of Host and Viral Protein Synthesis: Role of the P and V Proteins in Limiting PKR Activation

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1064

Received 13 September 2007/ Accepted 23 October 2007

The paramyxovirus simian virus 5 (SV5) establishes highly productive persistent infections of epithelial cells without inducing a global inhibition of translation. Here we show that an SV5 mutant (the P/V-CPI^– mutant) with substitutions in the P subunit of the viral polymerase and the accessory V protein also establishes highly productive infections like wild-type (WT) SV5 but that cells infected with the P/V-CPI^– mutant show an overall shutdown of both host and viral translation at late times postinfection. Reduced host and viral protein synthesis with the P/V-CPI^– virus was not due to lower levels of mRNA or caspase-dependent apoptosis and correlated with phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eIF-2. WT SV5 was a poor activator of the eIF-2 kinase protein kinase R (PKR). By contrast, the P/V-CPI^– mutant induced PKR phosphorylation, which correlated with the time course of translation inhibition but was independent of interferon signaling. In HeLa cells that expressed the PKR inhibitor influenza A virus NS1 or reovirus sigma3, the rate of host protein synthesis at late times after infection with the P/V-CPI^– mutant was restored to 50% that of control HeLa cells. By contrast, the rates of P/V-CPI^– viral protein synthesis in HeLa cells expressing NS1 or sigma3 were dramatically enhanced, between 5- and 20-fold, while levels of viral mRNA were increased only slightly (NS1-expressing cells) or remained constant (sigma3-expressing cells). Similar results were found using HeLa cells where PKR levels were reduced due to knockdown by small interfering RNA. Expression of either the WT P or the WT V protein from the genome of the P/V-CPI^– mutant resulted in lower levels of PKR activation and rates of host and viral protein synthesis that closely matched those seen with WT SV5. Despite higher rates of translation, cells infected with the V- or P-complemented virus accumulated viral mRNAs to lower levels than that seen with the parental P/V-CPI^– mutant. We present a model in which the paramyxovirus P/V gene products limit induction of PKR by limiting the synthesis of aberrant viral mRNAs and double-stranded RNA and thus prevent the shutdown of translation by a mechanism that differs from that of other PKR inhibitors such as NS1 and sigma3.

Published ahead of print on 31 October 2007.

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