title: Host and viral proteins in the virion of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.
abstract: Infection of cultured cells with Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) typically establishes a latent infection, in which only a few viral genes are expressed. Recently, it has been reported that a subset of lytic genes are transiently expressed very early after viral entry but that this burst of abortive lytic gene expression is terminated with the supervention of latency (H. H. Krishnan, P. P. Naranatt, M. S. Smith, L. Zeng, C. Bloomer, and B. Chandran, J. Virol. 78:3601-3620, 2004). To identify molecules imported into cells by KSHV that might influence this gene expression program, we have examined the protein composition of the KSHV particle. Immunoblotting of virus particles demonstrated that RTA, the lytic switch protein, and RAP, a viral protein that is a transcriptional and cell cycle modulator, were both incorporated into virus particles. In a second approach, polypeptides isolated from purified virions were identified by mass-spectrometric analysis of their constituent tryptic peptides. With this approach we were able to identify 18 major virion proteins, including structural, regulatory, and signaling proteins of both viral and cellular origin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and G. W. Hooper Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0552, USA. Bechtel@itsa.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Jill T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Bechtel
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Winant
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ganem
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D019288:Herpesvirus 8, Human / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization; D014357:Trypsin; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D014771:Virion / Q000235:genetics*; D017735:Virus Latency / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D014764:Viral Proteins; D014357:Trypsin