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Journal of Virology, April 2005, p. 5078-5089, Vol. 79, No. 8
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JVI.79.8.5078-5089.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
MRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Received 2 September 2004/ Accepted 1 December 2004
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The mechanisms that underlie the association of viral genomes with ND10 have not been clearly defined. Plasmids that contain a simian virus 40 (SV40) origin of DNA replication can become associated with ND10, but only if the SV40 large T antigen (which binds to the origin sequences and promotes DNA replication) is present (40). The association of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) amplicon genomes with ND10 is increased if active viral transcription units are present in the amplicons (38, 41). These data suggest that the biological activity of exogenous DNA promotes its association with ND10, a conclusion supported by studies of sequences integrated into cellular chromatin that become associated with ND10 when bound to exogenous protein factors (42). However, none of these studies has been able to differentiate between the following three possible scenarios: (i) that viral genomes migrate through the nucleus until they encounter an ND10 structure, (ii) that ND10 structures themselves move to sites of foreign DNA-protein complexes, or (iii) that novel ND10 complexes are formed in association with such complexes.
While studying early events during HSV-1 infection, we noted that in cells at the edges of developing viral plaques in cell monolayers, dot-like accumulations of the HSV-1 transcriptional regulatory protein ICP4 frequently formed in an arc just inside the edges of the nuclei of newly infected cells (18, 19). Because ICP4 binds strongly to viral DNA and accumulates in viral replication compartments, this and other evidence supported the hypothesis that the foci represented ICP4 binding to parental HSV-1 genomes and very early viral replication compartments (16, 19). An examination of the location of the major ND10 component proteins PML, Sp100, and hDaxx in such cells infected by an ICPO-negative HSV-1 mutant revealed that they also had highly asymmetric distributions, accumulating in marked association with the ICP4 complexes. These asymmetric patterns of the ND10 proteins were in distinct contrast to the normal apparently random distribution of ND10 throughout the nucleus (18). We suggested that while viral genome complexes may migrate through the nucleus until an ND10 structure is encountered, in addition either ND10 sites themselves may migrate to the sites of the incoming viral complexes or ND10-like structures may be formed de novo in association with and in response to the viral genome complexes (18).
In this study, we provide direct evidence that the ICP4 complexes do indeed contain viral genomes, and we show by live-cell microscopy that the associated ND10-like complexes are formed by ND10 proteins being deposited to create new aggregates in association with the viral complexes rather than by the migration of preexisting intact ND10 structures. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) and fluorescence lifetime in photobleaching (FLIP) experiments confirmed previous studies that demonstrated that ND10 component proteins are highly mobile, allowing a rapid exchange of protein molecules between existing ND10 foci and the surrounding nucleoplasm. This behavior of ND10 component molecules provides a mechanism that allows the formation of novel ND10 structures at diverse sites in the nucleus. We propose that the cell responds to incoming biologically active viral genomes in a manner that leads to the deposition of novel ND10 structures that are closely associated with the viral nucleoprotein complexes. This model explains why the replication compartments of nuclear replicating DNA viruses in general are so commonly observed to be in association with ND10.
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization. HFFF-2 cells were grown on 13-mm-diameter glass coverslips and then infected with wt HSV-1 at a multiplicity of infection of 10 PFU per cell. At various times thereafter, the cells were washed twice with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) containing 1% FCS and then fixed by incubation for 5 min at 20°C with precooled 95% ethanol-5% glacial acetic acid. The cells were then washed three times with PBS-1% FCS and stored at 4°C until further use. The probes for in situ hybridization were cosmids containing a 39.7-kb segment of the HSV-1 genome between coordinates 24,699 and 64,405 or a 35.6-kb segment between coordinates 79,442 and 115,152 (gifts from Andrew Davison and Charles Cunningham, MRC Virology Unit). After a DNase I treatment, the probes were labeled by nick translation with Cy3-dCTP (Amersham) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The cells were prehybridized by incubation for 30 min at 37°C with 20 µl of hybridization buffer (50% formamide, 10% dextran sulfate, 4x SSC [1x SSC is 0.15 M NaCl plus 0.015 M sodium citrate]) in a humidified microarray hybridization chamber (Camlab). The coverslips were then removed from the chamber and blotted dry. A probe was added to the hybridization buffer to a concentration of 1 ng/µl, after which each coverslip was incubated at 95°C for 2 min to denature the probe and the sample. The coverslips and hybridization mixture were then placed into the humidified chamber, and hybridization was continued overnight at 37°C. The cells were then washed for 5 min at 60°C with 2x SSC and once with 2x SSC at room temperature. After a further wash with PBS-1% FCS, the coverslips were incubated with the anti-ICP4 monoclonal antibody 58S for 1 h. After several washes, the cells were incubated with fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated sheep anti-mouse immunoglobulin G (Sigma) for another hour. The cells were washed several times, air dried, and then mounted on glass slides by the use of a glycerol-PBS mounting solution (CitiFluor). The samples were examined under a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal microscope with 488- and 543-nm laser lines, with each channel scanned separately under image capture conditions that eliminated channel overlap. The images were exported as TIFF files and then processed with Photoshop.
Immunofluorescence. Fluorescence in situ hybridization was combined with immunofluorescence by performing the hybridization first as described above and then incubating the coverslips with relevant primary and secondary antibodies as described previously (18). ICP4 was detected with the monoclonal antibody 58S (36) and PML was detected with the rabbit serum r8 (4), with fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated sheep anti-mouse and anti-rabbit secondary antibodies, respectively. In simple immunofluorescence experiments, the cells were fixed with formaldehyde and prepared for the detection of ICP4 with the monoclonal antibody 58S or rabbit serum r74, and ICP0 was detected with the monoclonal antibody 11060 or rabbit serum r190, as described previously (18).
Live-cell microscopy. Cells were grown in coverslipped glass-bottomed chambers and examined under a Zeiss Axiovert S100 microscope equipped with a motorized excitation filter wheel and a filter set designed to discriminate between EYFP and ECFP (Chroma). Images were captured with a Hamamatsu Orca charge-coupled device camera, with automated functions and image capture conditions controlled by AQM software (Kinetic Imaging). The microscope was maintained in a humidified chamber with temperature and CO2 control (EMBL Laboratories). Further details are given in previous publications (18, 19).
FRAP and FLIP experiments used the 510-nm laser line of a Zeiss LSM 510 META confocal microscope for EYFP bleaching and image detection, with areas of interest, bleaching, and time series image acquisition controlled by the LSM 510 software. The cells were maintained at 37°C by use of a heated stage and lens heater under the control of a thermostat. The medium was buffered with HEPES to maintain the pH. For FRAP, five small circular regions of interest that included individual ND10 foci were selected for bleaching (20 reiterations at full laser power). Thereafter, a sequence of 10 images at 20-s intervals was captured. Because ND10 foci moved during this period, larger regions of interest that included these foci in all images in the sequence were selected. Average pixel intensities were determined, from which the average pixel intensity of an unbleached region not including an ND10 structure (background value) was subtracted. The resultant average pixel intensity at each time point for each bleached structure was determined as a percentage of the initial value before bleaching. The average of these values for each bleached structure at each time point in a cell was calculated. Background values and values for a control unbleached ND10 structure remained constant throughout the time series (data not shown).
For FLIP experiments, two large rectangular regions of interest were selected to divide the nucleus into four bands. A series of seven bleach operations were performed on the two rectangular regions (20 reiterations at 100% laser power), with images captured immediately after and 20 s after each bleach operation. Analysis was conducted in a similar manner to that for FRAP experiments. Regions of interest defining the background, five individual ND10 structures in unbleached areas, and one ND10 structure in a bleached area were selected, and average pixel intensities minus the background were calculated for each structure at each time point. The data presented represent averages of two or three cells, with five individual unbleached foci analyzed for each. Background levels in the unbleached areas remained constant throughout the time series, while the intensity of ND10 foci within the bleached areas decreased by about 90% during the experiment (data not shown).
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FIG. 1. ICP4 foci that form at early times of HSV-1 infection are commonly associated with viral DNA. (Row A) Combined in situ hybridization of HSV-1 DNA and immunostaining of ICP4 in an HFFF-2 cell 3 h after infection with wt HSV-1 (MOI, 10 PFU/cell), showing DNA, ICP4, and merged (DNA is red, and ICP4 is green) images. (Row B) A HFFF-2 cell at the edge of a developing dl1403 plaque was stained for PML and ICP4 (red and green, respectively, in the merged image), demonstrating the association of PML foci with the ICP4 foci that characteristically form just inside the nuclear periphery. (Row C) The ICP4 foci that form just inside the nuclear periphery in cells at the edge of a developing plaque are extensively associated with DNA (ICP4 is green and DNA is red in the merged image). (Row D) In such cells, foci of viral DNA inside and close to the edge of the nucleus are commonly associated with structures containing PML (DNA is red and PML is green in the merged image).
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By 4 h postinfection, replication compartments that gave substantial hybridization signals had developed in many cells (data not shown). Again, incomplete colocalization of the viral DNA and ICP4 signals and differential intensities of the hybridization signal within a replication compartment were common, suggesting a lack of uniformity within these structures which was reminiscent of previous observations of the detailed distribution of HSV-1 DNA replication and capsid assembly proteins (10). Despite the incomplete colocalization of the ICP4 and in situ hybridization signals in HSV-1 replication compartments, however, the two signals were nonetheless tightly associated.
In a developing HSV-1 plaque on a cultured cell monolayer, progeny HSV-1 virus particles from productively infected cells infect neighboring cells at very high multiplicities. Under these conditions, virus particles spread between cells by direct cell contacts, and therefore the infection is spatially asymmetrical. Once virus particles have entered the newly infected cell, they are carried on microtubules towards the nucleus, and then the viral capsids congregate on the outside edge of the nuclear envelope, preferentially near the microtubule organizing center or on the side of the nucleus that faces the cell from which the virus originated (11, 33, 37). The viral DNA is then released and enters the nucleus, whereupon viral immediate-early (IE) gene transcription takes place. ICP4 also forms discrete foci in cells at the edges of developing plaques, and frequently these foci are arranged in arcs just inside the nuclear envelope (18, 19). Such arcs of ICP4 foci were also strongly associated with ND10-like structures when the degradation of PML and Sp100 was avoided by use of an HSV-1 virus which was defective in ICP0 (Fig. 1, row B) (18).
HFFF-2 cells were infected with the ICP0-null mutant virus dl1403 at a low MOI and then were analyzed by combined in situ hybridization and immunostaining. Cells at the edges of developing plaques commonly contained arcs of ICP4 foci that were intimately associated with viral DNA (Fig. 1, row C), and in turn the viral DNA foci were juxtaposed to ND10-like structures at a very high frequency (Fig. 1, row D). These data confirm that foci of ICP4 provide a reliable method for detecting the locations of viral genomes during HSV-1 infection, and they emphasize the observation that in the absence of ICP0, ND10-like complexes are found in association with asymmetrically distributed viral nucleoprotein complexes at the periphery of cells in a developing plaque.
Redistribution of PML to viral genomic foci also occurs in wild type HSV-1 infections. It was important to demonstrate that the redistribution of PML into an asymmetric pattern associated with dl1403 genomes in cells at the edges of developing plaques also occurs during wt HSV-1 infection. This was a difficult experiment because of the disruption of ND10 and the degradation of PML that is induced by ICP0 at early times during wt HSV-1 infection. Nonetheless, an examination of wt HSV-1 plaques stained for PML and treated by in situ hybridization revealed cells in the very early stages of infection in which, in addition to PML in remaining ND10 structures, PML signals also appeared in the characteristic asymmetric pattern near the nuclear envelope and associated with viral DNA foci (Fig. 2, rows A and B). The cells at the edges of developing wt virus plaques varied in phenotype from those in which PML was in association with the viral genomic foci while much remained elsewhere in ND10 structures (Fig. 2, row A), through those in which the majority of PML was associated with peripheral wt viral genomes (Fig. 2, row B), to cells in which little or no PML was detectable. In cells retaining only small quantities of PML, the remaining PML foci could be observed in association with viral DNA complexes near the edge of the nucleus (Fig. 2, row C).
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FIG. 2. Redistribution of PML to foci associated with HSV-1 genomes during wt virus infection. HFFF-2 cells were infected at a low MOI with wt HSV-1, and then the following day, the samples were treated to detect viral DNA by in situ hybridization (red) and to detect PML by labeling with the rabbit serum r8 (green) (rows A, B, and C). Row D shows a cell from a similar sample that was costained for ICP0 (red) and ICP4 (green). The insets in the merged images show expanded views of selected regions of the nuclei to illustrate details typical of the association of the various structures. Further details are given in the text.
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De novo induction of ND10-like complexes in association with HSV-1 genome complexes. The phenomena of asymmetrical infection in a developing plaque and the maintenance of ND10 proteins in the absence of functional ICP0 were harnessed to develop a methodology to examine the dynamics of viral and ND10 proteins in live infected cells and therefore to distinguish among the three possible explanations for the common association between HSV-1 genome complexes and ND10 that were posed in the introduction.
To examine the dynamics of ND10 during the initial stages of HSV-1 infection, we coinfected HFFF-2 cells with an HSV-1 virus expressing ECFP-linked ICP4 in an ICP0-negative background (virus dl0C4) and a baculovirus expressing either EYFP-linked Sp100 or PML (20). Since the asymmetric effect was most clearly seen in cells at the edges of developing plaques (18), the cells were infected with dl0C4 at a low multiplicity, and then the following day an uninfected cell expressing EYFP-Sp100 and situated close to a developing plaque was selected for live-cell time-lapse microscopy. Since it could not be predicted when, or even if, the cell of interest would become infected, image capture sequences were allowed to run for several hours, with maintenance of the temperature and atmospheric control.
Figure 3 shows a selection of frames from an image sequence (see Video S1 in the supplemental material) that illustrate the changes in the Sp100 location in response to the initial stages of HSV-1 infection. Starting from a uniform distribution of ND10, Sp100 began to accumulate in multiple foci near the edge of the nucleus. The two panels at the bottom right in Fig. 3 show the increase in numbers of Sp100 foci at the right-hand end of the nucleus over a 90-min time period. Particularly towards the upper right-hand side of the illustrated nucleus, these foci developed into complex aggregates as time progressed. Importantly, an examination of sequential frames of the time series (see Video S1 in the supplemental material) indicated that the initial ND10 foci elsewhere in the uninfected cell did not move en masse to the edge of the nucleus, but rather they gradually lost fluorescence intensity, while the foci at the nuclear periphery correspondingly increased in both number and fluorescence intensity. This process began at an early stage of infection, before ECFP-linked ICP4 had accumulated to a sufficient quantity to be visible under the image capture conditions employed. Note that ICP4 was readily detectable by antibody staining in similar fixed cell samples (Fig. 1) (18, 19); the relatively inefficient detection of ECFP-ICP4 by live-cell microscopy was due to limitations in the detection of low-intensity ECFP signals above a relatively high background autofluorescence. However, once ECFP-ICP4 foci became visible (Fig. 4, top row), they appeared in close association with EYFP-Sp100 foci at the edge of the nucleus (Fig. 4, middle row), in the characteristic pattern that had previously been documented by analysis of the normal viral and endogenous cellular proteins in fixed cell samples (Fig. 1) (18, 19).
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FIG. 3. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy detecting the redistribution of Sp100 during the initial stages of HSV-1 infection. An uninfected cell expressing EYFP-Sp100 at the edge of a developing HSV-1 dl0C4 plaque was examined by image capture every 15 min. Selected frames from the full sequence are shown, with the times after initiation of the sequence indicated in minutes. The last two images in the third row illustrate expanded views of the right-hand part of the nucleus at the 0- and 90-min time points to demonstrate the increase in the total numbers of ND10-like foci. Selected frames showing the signal from ECFP-ICP4 expressed by the incoming virus are presented in Fig. 4.
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FIG. 4. (Top row) Selected images from the time series shown in Fig. 3 showing the ECFP signal from ECYP-ICP4. (Middle row) Merged color images showing EYFP-Sp100 (red) and ECFP-ICP4 (green) from the images in the top row and the corresponding images from the time series shown in Fig. 5. (Bottom row) EYFP-PML, ECFP-ICP4, and merged (PML is red, and ICP4 is green) images from the final time point of the time sequence depicted in Fig. 5.
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FIG. 5. Time-lapse live-cell microscopy detecting the redistribution of PML during the initial stages of HSV-1 infection. An uninfected cell expressing EYFP-PML at the edge of a developing HSV-1 dl0C4 plaque was examined by image capture every 10 min. Selected frames from the full sequence are shown, with the times after initiation of the sequence indicated in minutes. The channels detecting PML and ICP4 from the last frame of the sequence are shown in Fig. 4.
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PML, Sp100, and especially hDaxx molecules in ND10 are rapidly exchanged with protein molecules from elsewhere. What is the mechanism by which ND10 proteins can relocate from existing ND10 structures to novel positions in association with viral nucleoprotein complexes? To investigate the spatial dynamics of selected ND10 proteins, we infected HFFF-2 cells with a baculovirus expressing EYFP-linked PML, Sp100, or hDaxx and then examined the dynamics of the protein molecules in ND10 structures by FRAP. Figures 6 and 7 show that hDaxx behaved very dynamically, with almost complete recovery of the fluorescence intensity in bleached ND10 within 20 s, indicating a rapid exchange of hDaxx molecules between ND10 structures and the surrounding environment. PML and Sp100 were less mobile, in both cases recovering about 30% of the fluorescence intensity that had been lost from bleached ND10 over a period of 3 min (Fig. 6 and 7). Complementary experiments using the FLIP technique gave consistent results, with a loss of the ND10 proteins from unbleached foci following repeated bleaching of other parts of the nucleus (Fig. 7). As in the FRAP experiments, PML and Sp100 were considerably less dynamic than hDaxx during FLIP, but there was an egress of at least 20% of the material from individual ND10 foci during a period of 3 to 4 min of repeated bleaching of neighboring regions (Fig. 7).
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FIG. 6. Analysis of dynamics of hDaxx, PML, and Sp100 by FRAP. (Top row) HFFF-2 cells were infected with Ac.CMV.EYFP-Daxx, and then the following day, the cells were examined by live-cell confocal microscopy. Two foci of hDaxx (arrows) were bleached by 20 reiterations of the 510-nm laser at full power, and then images were captured at 20-s intervals thereafter. The images before bleaching, immediately after bleaching, and at the first 20-s time point are shown. (Middle row) HFFF-2 cells were infected with Ac.CMV.EYFP-Sp100, and then the following day, the cells were examined by live-cell confocal microscopy. Five foci of Sp100 (arrows) were bleached by 20 reiterations of the 510-nm laser at full power, and then images were captured at 20-s intervals thereafter. The images before bleaching, immediately after bleaching, and at the 160-s time point are shown. (Bottom row) HFFF-2 cells were infected with Ac.CMV.EYFP-PML, and then the following day, the cells were examined by live-cell confocal microscopy. Five foci of PML (arrows) were bleached by 20 reiterations of the 510-nm laser at full power, and then images were captured at 20-s intervals thereafter. The images before bleaching, immediately after bleaching, and at the 160-s time point are shown.
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FIG. 7. Quantification of the dynamics of hDaxx, PML, and Sp100 by FRAP and FLIP. The left graph of each pair of histograms shows a quantification of the complete data sets, for which selected images are shown in Fig. 6. Making allowance for the movement of the dots, the average fluorescence intensities in regions of interest containing the bleached foci were determined with LSM 510 software, and then the average intensities of a background region were subtracted. The percentages of initial fluorescence at each time point were calculated. The histograms show the average results at all time points of the series for all of the arrowed foci in Fig. 6. Control data from dots that had not been bleached remained constant throughout the period of the experiment (not shown). The right graph of each pair shows the FLIP data average for each protein, calculated as described in Materials and Methods.
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Since it was first observed that the parental genomes and replication compartments of several nuclear replicating DNA viruses are closely associated with ND10 structures (22, 23, 28; reviewed in references 15 and 27), the issues of how this occurs and the significance of the phenomenon have remained matters of debate. In this paper, we demonstrated that ND10-like structures can form de novo in response to and in association with incoming HSV-1 genomes and the resulting viral nucleoprotein complexes. This process is likely enabled by the spatially dynamic properties of several key components of ND10, including the PML protein itself. Our data do not exclude the possibility that parental viral genomes are able to migrate to sites adjacent to preexisting ND10, but they strongly suggest a simple explanation for the association with ND10 of the replication complexes of all relevant viruses examined thus far. Our data are also consistent with previous conclusions that transcriptional activity on HSV-1 genomes increases their association with ND10 and that viral genomes that are so associated are more likely to develop into a replication compartment (18, 38).
The preferential association of ND10 with specific cellular genes or chromosome sites has been observed in several situations, including regions of DNA replication in middle to late S phase (21), the major histocompatibility complex gene cluster on chromosome 6 (35), chromosomal regions with high transcriptional activities (21, 35, 44), and sites of integrated sequences that are at high copy numbers and to which foreign proteins are bound (42). A similar mechanism to that described here may be operating in at least some of these examples. In addition, there are several reports that demonstrate an association of PML foci with sites of DNA repair after DNA damage (1, 3, 7, 8, 24, 46). The biological activities occurring on the chromatin at these sites may be viewed as analogous in many respects to those on transcriptionally active viral genomes that are undergoing the initial stages of DNA replication. A dynamic recruitment of PML and other ND10 proteins to sites of DNA repair enabled by the efflux of these proteins from existing ND10 structures provides a ready explanation for their association with ND10-like foci.
Taken with the results of earlier related studies (18, 19), the results presented here have several important implications for our understanding of some basic features of HSV-1 infection. The directional nature of infection in cells at the edge of a developing plaque, the asymmetric distribution of viral genomes near the nuclear envelope, and the fact that replication compartments develop from these sites demonstrate the following points: (i) there is limited movement of the viral genomes within the nucleus once they have been released into the nucleoplasm; (ii) prereplication compartments, hitherto defined as a subset of the foci formed by ICP8 and other proteins (9, 25, 34, 43), may perhaps be most easily defined in the very early stages of infection by the association of ICP4 with parental viral genomes; and (iii) the observation of a very large number of small replication compartments forming near the nuclear envelope in cells at the edges of developing plaques demonstrates that HSV-1 DNA replication can initiate at abundant locations that may be defined only by the presence of the viral genome and its associated proteins, not by the preexisting nuclear architecture. This suggestion is in distinct contrast to the previously established view that replication compartments develop at a limited number of preexisting sites within the nucleus.
While it was widely assumed previously that HSV-1 genomes migrate through the nucleus until they encounter an ND10 structure and/or a specific location at which a replication compartment could begin to develop, upon reflection this model presents a significant problem. Even when packed exceptionally tightly within the capsid, the HSV-1 genome fills a space that has a diameter of approximately 90 nm. Once released, it is reasonable to assume that the viral DNA becomes much less densely packed, and after large numbers of viral and cellular protein molecules have become bound to the viral DNA, the whole complex must increase greatly in both size and mass. It is pertinent that these structures appear to be similar in size to preexisting ND10 foci, that is, with dimensions on the order of 1 µm (Fig. 1 and data not shown). As with ND10 and other nuclear substructures of a similar size, there are likely to be considerable restraints on the movement of such complexes through the nucleoplasm, particularly if they are to be targeted to specific preexisting sites where replication could commence. The model put forward in this paper presents a simple mechanism that circumvents these problems. Furthermore, the presence of viral genomes and nucleoprotein complexes near the nuclear envelope has obvious advantages since viral transcripts need be transported only a short distance from their sites of synthesis into the cytoplasm, and similarly, if the viral transcripts engage in translation soon after their arrival in the cytoplasm, then viral proteins that are targeted into the nucleus can be transported back rapidly (Fig. 8). This idea is consistent with the observation that in the very earliest stages of infection, ICP4 can first be detected in foci at the nuclear periphery (18).
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FIG. 8. Summary of a model for the spatial distribution of HSV-1 genomes and viral nucleoprotein complexes in relation to cellular ND10 proteins from the earliest stages of infection through the development of replication compartments. Further details are given in the text.
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Taking all the data together, the events following the entry of the HSV-1 genome into the nucleus and proceeding to the point of replication compartment development are summarized in Fig. 8. The initial transcription of IE genes leads to the assembly of a transcriptionally active viral nucleoprotein complex close to the nuclear envelope. Subsequently, the preferential deposition of ND10 protein components leads to the assembly of ND10-like structures that are in association with the viral nucleoprotein complexes. Meanwhile, ICP0 is targeted to both preexisting ND10 foci and the novel ND10-like structures and causes their disruption and the degradation of PML. Viral replication compartments develop from the viral nucleoprotein complexes, having of course recruited all of the viral DNA replication proteins, as deduced in other studies (9, 10, 25, 43). A prediction that arises from this model is that initial IE gene transcription takes place at viral genomes that are not associated with ND10 proteins. This is consistent with previous data on the locations of SV40 transcriptional complexes (40).
This paper provides important insights into how PML-containing ND10-like structures may form and become associated with several different types of events involving DNA viruses and chromatin-based processes. The functional implications and an explanation for why this happens remain more elusive and may vary considerably for events involving transcription, apoptosis, DNA damage, DNA repair, viral transcription, and DNA replication. In particular, whether the underlying basis of these effects has positive or negative implications for the outcome of HSV-1 infection remains to be determined. Whatever the functions underlying PML and its associated proteins in these diverse activities, it is clear that the cell maintains a mechanism by which the ND10 constituent proteins can be deposited actively, rapidly, and efficiently at specific sites in response to cellular stresses and events occurring in the nucleus.
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