@article{132391,
  keywords = {Humans, Promoter Regions, Genetic, RNA, Viral, RNA, Messenger, Repressor Proteins, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, Blotting, Western, Luciferases, Cells, Cultured, Fibroblasts, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Viral Proteins, Virus Replication, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Cytomegalovirus, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Immunoprecipitation, Immediate-Early Proteins, Autoantigens, Histone Deacetylase 1, Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors, Histone Deacetylases, Hydroxamic Acids, Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex, Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 4},
  author = {Scott Terhune and Nathaniel Moorman and Ileana Cristea and John Paul Savaryn and Christian Cuevas-Bennett and Michael Rout and Brian Chait and Thomas Shenk},
  title = {Human cytomegalovirus UL29/28 protein interacts with components of the NuRD complex which promote accumulation of immediate-early RNA},
  abstract = {<p>Histone deacetylation plays a pivotal role in regulating human cytomegalovirus gene expression. In this report, we have identified candidate HDAC1-interacting proteins in the context of infection by using a method for rapid immunoisolation of an epitope-tagged protein coupled with mass spectrometry. Putative interactors included multiple human cytomegalovirus-coded proteins. In particular, the interaction of pUL38 and pUL29/28 with HDAC1 was confirmed by reciprocal immunoprecipitations. HDAC1 is present in numerous protein complexes, including the HDAC1-containing nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase protein complex, NuRD. pUL38 and pUL29/28 associated with the MTA2 component of NuRD, and shRNA-mediated knockdown of the RBBP4 and CHD4 constituents of NuRD inhibited HCMV immediate-early RNA and viral DNA accumulation; together this argues that multiple components of the NuRD complex are needed for efficient HCMV replication. Consistent with a positive acting role for the NuRD elements during viral replication, the growth of pUL29/28- or pUL38-deficient viruses could not be rescued by treating infected cells with the deacetylase inhibitor, trichostatin A. Transient expression of pUL29/28 enhanced activity of the HCMV major immediate-early promoter in a reporter assay, regardless of pUL38 expression. Importantly, induction of the major immediate-early reporter activity by pUL29/28 required functional NuRD components, consistent with the inhibition of immediate-early RNA accumulation within infected cells after knockdown of RBBP4 and CHD4. We propose that pUL29/28 modifies the NuRD complex to stimulate the accumulation of immediate-early RNAs.</p>
},
  year = {2010},
  journal = {PLoS Pathog},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {e1000965},
  month = {06/2010},
  issn = {1553-7374},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.ppat.1000965},
  language = {eng},
}