title: Identification and functional analysis of Hyphantria cunea nucleopolyhedrovirus iap genes.
abstract: Hyphantria cunea nucleopolyhedrovirus (HycuNPV) infection protected SpIm cells from actinomycin D (ActD)-induced apoptosis as early as 4 h postinfection. Analysis by Southern hybridization revealed that the HycuNPV genome possessed three members of inhibitor of apoptosis genes (iaps) that were designated as hycu-iap1, hycu-iap2, and hycu-iap3 because of their amino acid sequence homology with iaps identified in other baculoviruses. Functional analysis of Hycu-IAPs by transient expression assay in Sf9 cells revealed that Hycu-IAP3 blocked apoptosis induced by actinomycin D and rescued replication of p35 deficient-mutant AcMNPV, while Hycu-IAP1 and Hycu-IAP2 did not show any anti-apoptotic functions. Knockdown of hycu-iap3 expression by RNAi during HycuNPV infection in SpIm cells induced apoptosis. These results indicate that Hycu-IAP3 is essential for blockage of apoptosis during HycuNPV infection of permissive SpIm cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Sericulture and Entomoresources, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. mochiko@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Motoko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Kenichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yanagimoto
authors.forename: Michihiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D015870:Gene Expression; D005814:Genes, Viral; D051034:Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins; D007313:Insecta; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017924:Nucleopolyhedroviruses / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D051034:Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; C086430:inhibitor of apoptosis, Nucleopolyhedrovirus