Identification of a transcription factor, encoded by two vaccinia virus early genes, that regulates the intermediate stage of viral gene expression
AUTOR(ES)
Sanz, Patrick
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Vaccinia virus early, intermediate, and late stage genes are sequentially transcribed by the viral RNA polymerase within the cytoplasm of infected cells. We found that the 34- and 45-kDa polypeptides encoded by vaccinia virus ORFs A8R and A23R, respectively, were necessary to reconstitute transcription of a template with an intermediate stage promoter. Coexpression of the A8R and A23R genes in Escherichia coli was required for in vitro activity. In addition, the two polypeptides copurified, indicating their association as protein subunits of a vaccinia virus intermediate transcription factor. This factor, which we named VITF-3, complemented three viral proteins—namely, the RNA polymerase, capping enzyme, and a 30-kDa protein called VITF-1 that is also a subunit of the RNA polymerase—and an unidentified cell factor called VITF-2. Expression of the A8R and A23R genes occurred between 1 and 5 h after vaccinia virus infection and was not prevented by an inhibitor of DNA replication, consistent with a role for VITF-3 in specifically regulating intermediate transcription in vivo. The vaccinia virus A8R and A23R genes are highly conserved among vertebrate poxviruses, but no other viral or cellular homologs were identified.
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