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Journal of Virology, August 2005, p. 9651-9664, Vol. 79, No. 15
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.15.9651-9664.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

mRNA Decay during Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infections: Protein-Protein Interactions Involving the HSV Virion Host Shutoff Protein and Translation Factors eIF4H and eIF4A

Pinghui Feng,{dagger} David N. Everly Jr.,{ddagger} and G. Sullivan Read*

School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5007 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Missouri 64110

Received 14 January 2005/ Accepted 11 April 2005

During lytic infections, the virion host shutoff (Vhs) protein of herpes simplex virus accelerates the degradation of both host and viral mRNAs. In so doing, it helps redirect the cell from host to viral protein synthesis and facilitates the sequential expression of different viral genes. Vhs interacts with the cellular translation initiation factor eIF4H, and several point mutations that abolish its mRNA degradative activity also abrogate its ability to bind eIF4H. In addition, a complex containing bacterially expressed Vhs and a glutathione S-transferase (GST)-eIF4H fusion protein has RNase activity. eIF4H shares a region of sequence homology with eIF4B, and it appears to be functionally similar in that both stimulate the RNA helicase activity of eIF4A, a component of the mRNA cap-binding complex eIF4F. We show that eIF4H interacts physically with eIF4A in the yeast two-hybrid system and in GST pull-down assays and that the two proteins can be coimmunoprecipitated from mammalian cells. Vhs also interacts with eIF4A in GST pull-down and coimmunoprecipitation assays. Site-directed mutagenesis of Vhs and eIF4H revealed residues of each that are important for their mutual interaction, but not for their interaction with eIF4A. Thus, Vhs, eIF4H, and eIF4A comprise a group of proteins, each of which is able to interact directly with the other two. Whether they interact simultaneously as a tripartite complex or sequentially is unclear. The data suggest a mechanism for linking the degradation of an mRNA to its translation and for targeting Vhs to mRNAs and to regions of translation initiation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5007 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, MO 64110. Phone: (816) 235-2583. Fax: (816) 235-1503. E-mail: readgs{at}umkc.edu.

{dagger} Present address: Tumor Virology Division, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, P.O. Box 9102, 1 Pine Hill Dr., Southborough, MA 01772-9102.

{ddagger} Present address: Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27599.

Journal of Virology, August 2005, p. 9651-9664, Vol. 79, No. 15
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.79.15.9651-9664.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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