title: Parvoviral left-end hairpin ears are essential during infection for establishing a functional intranuclear transcription template and for efficient progeny genome encapsidation.
abstract: The 121-nucleotide left-end telomere of Minute Virus of Mice (MVM) can be folded into a Y-shaped hairpin with short axial ears that are highly conserved within genus Parvovirus. To explore their potential role(s) during infection, we constructed infectious plasmid clones that lacked one or other ear. Although these were nonviable when transfected into A9 cells, excision of the viral genome and DNA amplification appeared normal, and viral transcripts and proteins were expressed, but progeny virion production was minimal, supporting the idea of a potential role for the ears in genome packaging. To circumvent the absence of progeny that confounded further analysis of these mutants, plasmids were transfected into 293T cells both with and without an adenovirus helper construct, generating single bursts of progeny. These virions bound to A9 cells and were internalized but failed to initiate viral transcription, protein expression, or DNA replication. No defects in mutant virion stability or function could be detected in vitro. Significantly, mutant capsid gene expression and DNA replication could be rescued by coinfection with wild-type virions carrying a replication-competent, capsid-gene-replacement vector. To pinpoint where such complementation occurred, prior transfection of plasmids expressing only MVM nonstructural proteins was explored. NS1 alone, but not NS2, rescued transcription and protein expression from both P4 and P38 promoters, whereas NS1 molecules deleted for their C-terminal transactivation domain did not. These results suggest that the mutant virions reach the nucleus, uncoat, and are converted to duplex DNA but require an intact left-end hairpin structure to form the initiating transcription complex.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Laboratory Medicine.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Susan F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Cotmore
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tattersall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D020029:Base Pairing; D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D016679:Genome, Viral; D051379:Mice; D008915:Minute Virus of Mice / Q000235:genetics*; D010322:Parvoviridae Infections / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000821:virology*; D017992:Parvovirus / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014162:Transfection; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D014779:Virus Replication
chemical_list: D036022:Capsid Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D004279:DNA, Viral; D014764:Viral Proteins
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