title: African green monkey kidney Vero cells require de novo protein synthesis for efficient herpes simplex virus 1-dependent apoptosis.
abstract: During HSV-1 infection, IE gene expression triggers apoptosis, but subsequent synthesis of infected cell proteins blocks apoptotic death from ensuing. This "HSV-1-dependent" apoptosis was identified in HEp-2/HeLa cells infected with wild-type HSV-1 in the presence of an inhibitor of protein synthesis or a virus lacking ICP27 {HSV-1(vBSDelta27)}. Unlike HEp-2/HeLa cells, vBSDelta27-infected Vero cells fail to exhibit dramatic apoptotic morphologies at times prior to 24 hpi. Here, we examined the basis of these different apoptotic responses to HSV-1. We found that infected Vero cells take substantially longer than HEp-2/HeLa cells to display membrane blebbing, chromatin condensation, DNA laddering, and PARP cleavage. Vero, but not HEp-2/HeLa, cells required de novo protein synthesis to exhibit efficient HSV-1-dependent apoptosis, which included changes in mitochondrial membrane potential, and these factors were produced prior to 3 hpi. Vero cells infected with recombinant viruses devoid of the ICP27 and ICP4 proteins alone or both the ICP27 and ICP22 proteins were apoptotic. These results indicate a requirement for cellular or other viral protein synthesis in Vero cells and provide insight into cell type differences in HSV-1-dependent apoptosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA.
authors.forename: Marie L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Rachel M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Kraft
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Blaho
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D013045:Species Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D014709:Vero Cells / Q000502:physiology / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: C057120:ICP27 protein, human herpesvirus 1; D017874:Immediate-Early Proteins; C048925:herpes simplex virus, type 1 protein ICP4; D011065:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases