Abstract
The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) immediate-early protein ICP27 is required posttranscriptionally for the expression of HSV-1 late genes during a productive infection. ICP27 also inhibits host cell pre-mRNA splicing, effectively shutting off host cell protein synthesis. Here we describe intragenic suppressors of LG4, a virus with a conditional lethal mutation in the gene encoding ICP27. At the restrictive temperature, tsICP27 from LG4 fails to inhibit host cell pre-mRNA splicing and to activate the expression of HSV-1 late-gene products. Although the suppressors of LG4 restore virus growth, they still fail to inhibit host cell pre-mRNA splicing. Thus, the role of ICP27 in the synthesis of late proteins is independent of host shutoff. In HSV-1-infected cells, ICP27 shuttles between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Shuttling of ICP27 occurs only at late times during infection. In transfected cells, ICP27 shuttling was dependent on coexpression of RNA from a late HSV-1 gene. While shuttling does not occur in cells infected with LG4 at 39.5 degrees C, the suppressors of LG4 restore shuttling. Temperature shift experiments correlate the defect in shuttling with the temperature-sensitive phenotype of LG4. These data provide a correlation between shuttling of ICP27 and the expression of HSV-1 late-gene products. We propose that ICP27 regulates late-gene protein synthesis by facilitating the export of late RNAs.
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