HCMV TEGUMENT PROTEINS: NEW INSIGHTS ON INTERACTION BETWEEN THE DNA SENSOR PROTEIN IFI16 AND VIRION PARTICLES

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العنوان: HCMV TEGUMENT PROTEINS: NEW INSIGHTS ON INTERACTION BETWEEN THE DNA SENSOR PROTEIN IFI16 AND VIRION PARTICLES
المؤلفون: GIORGIO, ALESSANDRO GIOVANNI, BIOLATTI, MATTEO, GATTI, DEBORAH, DELL'OSTE, Valentina, DE ANDREA, Marco, LANDOLFO, Santo Giuseppe
المساهمون: Alessandro Giorgio, Matteo Biolatti, Deborah Gatti, Valentina Dell’Oste, Marco De Andrea, Santo Landolfo
بيانات النشر: Edizioni Medico Scientifiche S.r.L.
ITA
Pavia
سنة النشر: 2014
المجموعة: Università degli studi di Torino: AperTo (Archivio Istituzionale ad Accesso Aperto)
الوصف: Introduction: The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), a member of b-herpesviridae family, is a widespread pathogen that infect between 50% to 85% of human population. HCMV is able to establish a lifetime infection in the host with stages of latency followed by reactivation. Infection is usually benign in immunocompetent patients. However HCMV may cause a severe disease in organ transplant recipients, AIDS patients or hosts with defects of the immune systems. HCMV is a major cause of birth defects when infection occurs during pregnancy. After virusmembrane fusion events mediated by envelope proteins, both the DNA-containing capsid and the tegument proteins are released into the cell. Some tegument proteins play a critical roles in the disarming the immune system of the host (pp65, pp71) or they improve the viral genes expression (pp150, pp28). Nuclear sensing of viral DNA has emerged as an essential step in innate immune responses against herpesviruses, including HCMV. The DNA sensor protein IFI16 seems to have a key role in the cell defensive mechanism. We have been previously demonstrated that the viral protein kinase UL97 plays a crucial role in the regulation of IFI16 nucleo-cytoplasmic relocalization during HCMV infection. Materials and Methods: TR HCMV virions obtained by infection on human fibroblasts (HFF) were purified by ultracentrifugation on sucrose gradient. The purified virions were then lysated and checked on western blot for cellular residues. Immunoprecipitation was performed using anti-IFI16 policlonal antibodies as bait for virion proteins. The immunocomplexes (ICs) were then incubated and purified with commercial beads. ICs was analyzed by western blot. Results: Our group has newly obtained some experimental evidence that reveal a possible presence of IFI16 in the HCMV virion, probably associated with the viral protein UL83, but the significance of this data still remains unknown. Discussion and Conclusions: We have deeply investigated a possible interaction of virion proteins with IFI16. Our datas ...
نوع الوثيقة: conference object
اللغة: English
العلاقة: ispartofbook:42° Congresso della Società Italiana di Microbiologia; 42° Congresso della Società Italiana di Microbiologia; firstpage:142; lastpage:142; numberofpages:1; journal:NEW MICROBIOLOGICA; http://hdl.handle.net/2318/150438Test
الإتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/150438Test
حقوق: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.4B53F893
قاعدة البيانات: BASE