期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2019
卷号：116
期号：3
页码：1033-1042
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1817642116
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Most DNA viruses that use recombination-dependent mechanisms to replicate their DNA encode a single-strand annealing protein (SSAP). The herpes simplex virus (HSV) single-strand DNA binding protein (SSB), ICP8, is the central player in all stages of DNA replication. ICP8 is a classical replicative SSB and interacts physically and/or functionally with the other viral replication proteins. Additionally, ICP8 can promote efficient annealing of complementary ssDNA and is thus considered to be a member of the SSAP family. The role of annealing during HSV infection has been difficult to assess in part, because it has not been possible to distinguish between the role of ICP8 as an SSAP from its role as a replicative SSB during viral replication. In this paper, we have characterized an ICP8 mutant, Q706A/F707A (QF), that lacks annealing activity but retains many other functions characteristic of replicative SSBs. Like WT ICP8, the QF mutant protein forms filaments in vitro, binds ssDNA cooperatively, and stimulates the activities of other replication proteins including the viral polymerase, helicase–primase complex, and the origin binding protein. Interestingly, the QF mutant does not complement an ICP8-null virus for viral growth, replication compartment formation, or DNA replication. Thus, we have been able to separate the activities of ICP8 as a replicative SSB from its annealing activity. Taken together, our data indicate that the annealing activity of ICP8 is essential for viral DNA replication in the context of infection and support the notion that HSV-1 uses recombination-dependent mechanisms during DNA replication.
关键词：ICP8 ; annealing ; HSV-1 ; DNA replication ; recombination
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