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Journal of Virology, September 1998, p. 7583-7588, Vol. 72, No. 9
Centro de Biología Molecular
"Severo Ochoa,
Received 16 March 1998/Accepted 4 June 1998
An examination by electron microscopy of the viral assembly sites
in Vero cells infected with African swine fever virus showed the
presence of large clusters of mitochondria located in their proximity.
These clusters surround viral factories that contain assembling
particles but not factories where only precursor membranes are seen.
Immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that these accumulations of
mitochondria are originated by a massive migration of the organelle to
the virus assembly sites. Virus infection also promoted the induction
of the mitochondrial stress-responsive proteins p74 and cpn 60 together
with a dramatic shift in the ultrastructural morphology of the
mitochondria toward that characteristic of actively respiring
organelles. The clustering of mitochondria around the viral factory was
blocked in the presence of the microtubule-disassembling drug
nocodazole, indicating that these filaments are implicated in the
transport of the mitochondria to the virus assembly sites. The results
presented are consistent with a role for the mitochondria in supplying
the energy that the virus morphogenetic processes may require and make
of the African swine fever virus-infected cell a paradigm to
investigate the mechanisms involved in the sorting of mitochondria
within the cell.
African swine fever virus (ASFV),
the causative agent of a severe disease of domestic pigs, is a large
enveloped DNA virus with an icosahedral morphology (6, 40).
Its genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 170 kbp that
contains hairpin loops and terminal inverted repetitions (13,
35). ASFV is one of the most complex animal viruses, containing
about 150 potential genes (43). Although ASFV had been
thought to multiply exclusively in the cytoplasm of the infected cell,
results from our laboratory suggest that the replication of the viral
DNA is initiated in the nucleus (12). This nuclear stage is
followed by a second phase of replication in the cytoplasm.
ASFV morphogenesis occurs in discrete cytoplasmic areas close to the
nucleus designated viral factories (5, 26). The virions
assemble from membranous structures which become polyhedral immature
virions after capsid formation on their convex surface. Beneath this
envelope, two distinct domains assemble consecutively: first, a thick
protein layer and, then, an electron-dense nucleoid that contains the
virus DNA (2). The mature particle has about 50 proteins
(8), some of which are produced by posttranslational proteolytic processing of virus polyproteins pp220 and pp62 (33, 34). Extracellular virions possess an additional lipid envelope acquired by budding through the plasma membrane (5).
Conceivably, the complex morphogenetic process of ASFV may require a
considerable amount of the cellular energy provided by mitochondria. We
have examined by electron microscopy the cytoplasmic assembly sites in
ASFV-infected Vero cells and have observed the presence of large
clusters of mitochondria located in proximity to the viral factories.
We show that these clusters are not the result of the biogenesis of
mitochondria in the infected cell but are due to a massive migration of
preexisting organelles to the periphery of the viral assembly areas.
Remarkably, ASFV infection also promoted the induction of the
mitochondrial stress-responsive proteins p74 and cpn 60 concurrently
with a pronounced change in the ultrastructural morphology of the
organelle toward that characteristic of actively respiring
mitochondria.
Preconfluent cultures of Vero cells were mock infected or infected with
ASFV strain BA71V at a multiplicity of infection of 5 PFU per cell and,
at different times postinfection, the cells were fixed, dehydrated in
ethanol, and embedded in Epon. Thin-sections of these samples were then
examined with an electron microscope. At 12 hours postinfection (hpi)
and later, large clusters of mitochondria were seen in proximity to
cytoplasmic factories containing assembling virus particles (Fig.
1A and B). By contrast, assembly sites
where only virus precursor structures, such as membranes, are present, corresponding to an earlier stage in morphogenesis, were found to be
surrounded by a considerably smaller number of mitochondria (Fig. 1C
and D). At earlier postinfection times (8 hpi), the region surrounding
the cytoplasmic DNA replication sites, identified by electron
microscopic in situ hybridization using ASFV-specific DNA probes, was
also found to be essentially devoid of mitochondria (29a).
The large number of mitochondria found in the periphery of the assembly
areas at the times when virus morphogenesis is under way initially
suggested the induction of mitochondrial biogenesis triggered by ASFV
infection. In fact, at various times postinfection quantification of
the relative cellular representation of the stress-responsive p74
protein, which is located in the mitochondria of mammalian cells
(1), revealed a continuous increase in its abundance as
infection proceeds (Fig. 2A). At 18 hpi
ASFV-infected cells showed a fourfold increase in p74 contents over
that of the mock-infected cells. A similar situation, although somewhat less pronounced (a threefold increase), was noted for the relative cellular contents of the mitochondrial chaperonin cpn 60 (30) in the ASFV-infected cells (Fig. 2B). These findings
were consistent with the possibility that the clusters of mitochondria
in proximity to the viral factories could result from de novo accretion
of mitochondrial mass.
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Migration of Mitochondria to Viral Assembly Sites
in African Swine Fever Virus-Infected Cells
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FIG. 1.
Viral assembly sites in ASFV-infected Vero cells. The
cells were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium
supplemented with 10% newborn calf serum and infected with the BA71V
isolate as described in the text. At 12 hpi, the cells were fixed with
2% glutaraldehyde and 2% tannic acid, dehydrated in ethanol, and
stained with 2% uranyl acetate. After embedding in Epon, thin sections
(80 nm) were cut, stained with 2% lead citrate, and examined under a
Jeol 1010 electron microscope. (A) The micrograph shows a factory (F)
that contains viral membranes and assembling particles (v). A large
cluster of mitochondria (mt) is located in proximity to the factory.
(B) Viral factory (F) containing membranes and assembling particles
(v). The mitochondria (mt) are located very close to the virus
particles. (C and D) Viral assembling sites (F) containing only
precursor membranes. Few mitochondria (mt) are seen near the factories.
Note also the different morphology of mitochondria in cells containing
early (C and D) and late (A and B) viral assembly sites. (D) N,
nucleus. (A, B, and D) Bar, 1 µm; (C) bar, 0.5 µm.

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FIG. 2.
Assay of mitochondrial proteins and DNA in ASFV-infected
cells. (A) Vero cells were mock infected or infected with ASFV, and, at
different times postinfection, whole-cell extracts were prepared,
fractionated in sodium dodecyl sulfate-10% polyacrylamide gels, and
transferred to nylon membranes. The membranes were probed as described
previously (19, 37) with a 1:200 dilution of a serum which
has been shown to specifically recognize the mitochondrial
stress-responsive p74 (1, 9). M, mock-infected cells. The
infected cells were collected at 2 (lane 1), 6 (lane 2), 12 (lane 3),
18 (lane 4), and 24 (lane 5) hpi. The histogram at the bottom of the
panel illustrates the p74 induction after quantification by
densitometric scanning. Each bar represents the mean of six experiments
(error bar, standard error of the mean). (B and C) Same as panel A, but
with antibodies against cpn 60 (StressGene) and
-F1-ATPase protein
(37), respectively. Densitometric scanning of the bands
shown in panel B indicated a threefold increase in the cpn 60 contents
in the infected cells. Lanes M, mock-infected cells; lanes V,
ASFV-infected cells at 16 hpi. (D) Cytochrome c oxidase
activity in mock-infected (M) and ASFV-infected (V) cells was assayed
in whole-cell extracts at 16 hpi as described previously
(37). The activity is expressed in milliunits per milligram
of protein. Each bar represents the mean of five experiments (error
bar, standard error of the mean). (E) Vero cells were mock infected (M)
or infected with ASFV (V) and, at 16 hpi, the total cell DNA was
extracted, digested with BamHI, and subjected to
electrophoresis in an agarose gel. After transfer to nitrocellulose
membranes, the amount of nuclear DNA present in the samples was
estimated by hybridization to a 32P-labeled DNA probe
specific for the rat liver
-F1-ATPase gene (11). The
bands corresponding to mock- and virus-infected cells were analyzed by
densitometry, and the membrane was then stripped and hybridized to a
probe corresponding to the gene coding for the 12S mitochondrial rRNA
from rat liver (10). After densitometry was performed on the
bands obtained, the amount of mitochondrial DNA in the samples was
quantified by calculating the ratio of the densitometric value of the
mitochondrial DNA to that of the nuclear DNA. The values for these
ratios were the following: mock-infected cells, 0.37; and infected
cells, 0.32. Hybridization to BamHI-digested rat liver DNA,
used as a control (C) is also shown.
To further examine this, we determined the relative cellular contents
of the
-catalytic subunit of the mitochondrial ATP synthase, the
bottleneck of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, as well as the
mitochondrial DNA contents in both mock-infected and ASFV-infected
cells. Both parameters are standard reference markers for monitoring
processes of mitochondrial biogenesis (20, 28) that have
been shown to develop in parallel under situations of organelle
biogenesis (for a recent review, see reference 7). In addition, the specific activity of complex IV of the respiratory chain was determined. The results obtained revealed no significant differences in any of the three parameters between the mock-infected and ASFV-infected cells (Fig. 2C to E), indicating that viral infection
is associated not with a concurrent process of mitochondrial biogenesis
but rather with the induction of a mitochondrial stress (Fig. 2A and
B).
An examination by electron microscopy of the mitochondria present in mock-infected Vero cells showed that most of them presented the characteristic orthodox ultrastructure corresponding to that of the resting state of respiration (14, 15, 31, 37, 42) (Fig. 3). A statistical analysis, based on the observation of 350 mitochondria which were contained in 20 cell sections, indicated that 75% of them presented this morphology. In contrast, 95% of the mitochondria that surround factories that contain assembling virus particles in infected cells showed the condensed ultrastructure, with a marked condensation of the cristae, which is the characteristic state of actively respiring mitochondria (14, 15, 31, 37, 42) (Fig. 1A and B). It is remarkable that most of the mitochondria in cells where the viral factories contain only precursor membranes, i.e., at an earlier stage in morphogenesis (Fig. 1C and D), presented the orthodox morphology as observed in mock-infected cells. The dramatic shift in mitochondrial morphology observed in ASFV-infected cells when the assembly of virus particles is under way is compatible with an increase in the respiratory function and ATP production by their mitochondria. Presumably, an increase in mitochondrial function could lead to an increased production of reactive oxygen species (29), with subsequent damage to mitochondrial DNA and proteins. In this situation, the increase in the relative cellular contents of the stress-responsive p74 and cpn 60 mitochondrial chaperones might represent a cellular safeguard mechanism to preserve the functional integrity of the organelle from the deleterious effects of reactive oxygen species.
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Since mitochondrial biogenesis does not occur in ASFV-infected cells,
an alternative explanation for the accumulation of mitochondria near
the virus assembly sites would be the transport of preexisting mitochondria to these sites. This possibility was explored by means of
indirect immunofluorescence microscopy labeling the mitochondria with
an antiserum against the mitochondrial F1-ATPase complex from rat liver
(37). In Vero cells, this antiserum was found to recognize
specifically the
-subunit of the enzyme (Fig. 2C). Mock-infected or
ASFV-infected cells were fixed with methanol at different times
postinfection and then incubated with the anti-F1-ATPase antibody,
which was detected through secondary labeling with a fluorescein-conjugated antibody. The cells were finally stained with
Hoechst in order to identify the DNA of the viral factories. Figure
4A shows the pattern of mitochondria in
mock-infected Vero cells. As can be seen, the antibody revealed an
intracellular distribution and morphology of the immunoreactive
material resembling that previously reported for other mitochondrial
proteins (1, 25) and the specific mitochondrial fluorescent
marker rhodamine (2-[6-amino-3-imino 3H-xanthen-9-yl]benzoic acid
methyl ester) (21) in mammalian cells. In infected cells at
8 hpi, the pattern obtained is essentially the same as that of
mock-infected cells (Fig. 4B). At 14 hpi, however, a dramatic change in
the mitochondrial pattern can be observed in cells that contain viral
factories (Fig. 4C to F). The signal is at that time seen as a
fluorescent ring that encircles the virus assembly sites, a pattern
that is maintained at 16 hpi in cells with viral factories (Fig. 4G and H). No mitochondrial fluorescent signal is observed in other regions of
the virus-infected cells, indicating that a massive migration of
mitochondria towards the virus assembly sites has occurred.
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The microtubules have been implicated in the movement of mitochondria within the cell (4, 16, 17, 23, 24, 39). Since it was possible that these filaments act as tracks for the transport of the mitochondria to the ASFV assembly sites, we used the drug nocodazole to disassemble the tubulin network of the cell (41). Control experiments using an antitubulin antibody showed that 10 µM nocodazole effectively disassembles the microtubules of Vero cells after 1 h of incubation (Fig. 5A and B). The drug was then added or not to ASFV-infected cultures at 6 hpi, and the mitochondrial pattern was examined at 14 hpi. As described above, nontreated cells showed the characteristic mitochondrial clusters around the virus assembly sites (Fig. 5C and D). In contrast, in nocodazole-treated cells containing viral factories the mitochondrial signal remained distributed throughout the cytoplasm, with a pattern very similar to that found in infected cells that did not contain factories (Fig. 5E and F). It should be noted that the pattern of mitochondria in nocodazole-treated cells (Fig. 5E) is somewhat disorganized with respect to that of nontreated cells (compare Fig. 4), probably as a consequence of the disassembly of the microtubules. The finding that the clustering of mitochondria around the viral assembly sites is prevented in the presence of nocodazole strongly suggests that the microtubules are involved in the transport of the organelles to the proximity of the viral factories.
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The migration of the cell mitochondria to the viral assembly sites that occurs in ASFV-infected cells when virus morphogenesis is under way, together with the observation that these mitochondria have the ultrastructure of actively respiring organelles, is consistent with a role for the mitochondria that surround the factories in providing the energy that might be necessary for the virus morphogenetic processes. In the ASFV assembly pathway, the virus particles are formed from precursor membranes, which accumulate in the factories (2). It is possible that the morphogenetic event that may require larger amounts of energy is the formation of the virus particle itself, as large clusters of mitochondria are not seen near factories that contain only precursor membranes.
The presence of mitochondria surrounding the cytoplasmic viroplasm has also been described in cells infected with the iridovirus frog virus 3, which has a morphology very similar to that of ASFV (22). These mitochondria, however, appear to be degenerate, and it is thus doubtful that they play a role similar to that proposed here for the mitochondria that surround the ASFV factories. On the other hand, an increase in mitochondrial activity has been observed in cells infected with adenovirus (36). Although adenovirus replicates in the nucleus of the infected cell, this finding, like ours, suggests a relevant role for mitochondrial function in certain virus infections.
An interesting question raised by these studies is the mechanism by which the mitochondria are transported to the ASFV assembly sites. The results obtained with ASFV-infected cells treated with nocodazole strongly support the argument that microtubules are the filaments used for the transport of the mitochondria to the viral factories. Certain microtubule-associated proteins, such as the ATPase kinesin (3, 18, 32, 38) and a recently described member of the kinesin superfamily, KIF1B (27), may act as motors for the movement of mitochondria. The interaction between mitochondria and microtubules may occur via these motor proteins. Activation of motor proteins by ASFV infection could cause the transport of the mitochondria along the microtubules towards the virus assembly sites. An alternative possibility to this active transport of mitochondria is suggested by unpublished data from our laboratory which indicate that, at late times postinfection, the microtubules accumulate to some extent around the virus factories (2a). The microtubule-bound mitochondria could therefore be passively transported to the periphery of the factories in this way. Whatever the mechanism involved, the ASFV-infected cell may be a suitable system in which to study mitochondrial transport within the mammalian cell.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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We thank M. Salas and J. Satrústegui for critical reading of the manuscript, and M. Rejas for technical assistance in electron microscopic procedures.
This work was supported by grants from the Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (PB93-0160-C02-01 and PB94-0159) and the European Community (AIR-CT93-1332) and an institutional grant from the Fundación Ramón Areces to the Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa."
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FOOTNOTES |
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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34-1-3978478. Fax: 34-1-3978490. E-mail: mlsalas{at}trasto.cbm.uam.es.
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