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An Essential Viral Transcription Activator Modulates Chromatin Dynamics
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PLoS Pathog
2016[Aug]; 12
(8
): e1005842
PMID27575707
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Although ICP4 is the only essential transcription activator of herpes simplex
virus 1 (HSV-1), its mechanisms of action are still only partially understood. We
and others propose a model in which HSV-1 genomes are chromatinized as a cellular
defense to inhibit HSV-1 transcription. To counteract silencing, HSV-1 would have
evolved proteins that prevent or destabilize chromatinization to activate
transcription. These proteins should act as HSV-1 transcription activators. We
have shown that HSV-1 genomes are organized in highly dynamic nucleosomes and
that histone dynamics increase in cells infected with wild type HSV-1. We now
show that whereas HSV-1 mutants encoding no functional ICP0 or VP16 partially
enhanced histone dynamics, mutants encoding no functional ICP4 did so only
minimally. Transient expression of ICP4 was sufficient to enhance histone
dynamics in the absence of other HSV-1 proteins or HSV-1 DNA. The dynamics of
H3.1 were increased in cells expressing ICP4 to a greater extent than those of
H3.3. The dynamics of H2B were increased in cells expressing ICP4, whereas those
of canonical H2A were not. ICP4 preferentially targets silencing H3.1 and may
also target the silencing H2A variants. In infected cells, histone dynamics were
increased in the viral replication compartments, where ICP4 localizes. These
results suggest a mechanism whereby ICP4 activates transcription by disrupting,
or preventing the formation of, stable silencing nucleosomes on HSV-1 genomes.