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Journal of Virology, January 2009, p. 454-469, Vol. 83, No. 1
0022-538X/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.01939-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of Cellular Proteins That Interact with the Adeno-Associated Virus Rep Protein

Kevin Nash, Weijun Chen, Max Salganik, and Nicholas Muzyczka^*

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Powell Gene Therapy Center, University of Florida College of Medicine, 1376 Mowry Rd., Gainesville, Florida 32610

Received 15 September 2008/ Accepted 17 October 2008

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) codes for four related nonstructural Rep proteins. AAV both replicates and assembles in the nucleus and requires coinfection with a helper virus, either adenovirus (Ad) or herpesvirus, for a productive infection. Like other more complex DNA viruses, it is believed that AAV interacts or modifies host cell proteins to carry out its infection cycle. To date, relatively little is known about the host proteins that interact with the viral Rep proteins, which are known to be directly involved in DNA replication, control of viral and cellular transcription, splicing, and protein translation. In this study, we used affinity-tagged Rep protein to purify cellular protein complexes that were associated with Rep in cells that had been infected with Ad and AAV. In all, we identified 188 cellular proteins from 16 functional categories, including 14 transcription factors, 6 translation factors, 15 potential splicing proteins, 5 proteins involved in protein degradation, and 13 proteins involved in DNA replication or repair. This dramatically increases the number of potential interactions over the current number of approximately 26. Twelve of the novel proteins found were further tested by coimmunoprecipitation or colocalization using confocal immunomicroscopy. Of these, 10 were confirmed as proteins that formed complexes with Rep, including proteins of the MCM complex (DNA replication), RCN1 (membrane transport), SMC2 (chromatin dynamics), EDD1 (ubiquitin ligase), IRS4 (signal transduction), and FUS (splicing). Computer analysis suggested that 45 and 28 of the 188 proteins could be placed in a pathway of interacting proteins involved in DNA replication and protein synthesis, respectively. Of the proteins involved in DNA replication, all of the previously identified proteins involved in AAV DNA replication were found, except Ad DBP. The only Ad protein found to interact with Rep was the E1b55K protein. In addition, we confirmed that Rep interacts with Ku70/80 helicase. In vitro DNA synthesis assays demonstrated that although Ku helicase activity could substitute for MCM to promote strand displacement synthesis, its presence was not essential. Our study suggests that the interaction of AAV with cellular proteins is much more complex than previously suspected and provides a resource for further studies of the AAV life cycle.

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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, 1376 Mowry Rd., Gainesville, FL 32610. Phone: (352) 273-8313. Fax: (352) 273-8284. E-mail: muzyczka{at}mgm.ufl.edu

Published ahead of print on 29 October 2008.

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Journal of Virology, January 2009, p. 454-469, Vol. 83, No. 1
0022-538X/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.01939-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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