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. 1982 Mar;41(3):781–791. doi: 10.1128/jvi.41.3.781-791.1982

Regulation of protein synthesis in vesicular stomatitis virus-infected mouse L-929 cells by decreased protein synthesis initiation factor 2 activity.

M Centrella, J Lucas-Lenard
PMCID: PMC256815  PMID: 6284970

Abstract

Infection of mouse L-cell spinner cultures by vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) effected the selective translation of viral mRNA by 4h after viral adsorption. Cell-free systems prepared from mock- and VSV-infected cells reflected this phenomenon; protein synthesis was reduced in the virus-infected cell lysate by approximately 75% compared with the mock-infected (control) lysate. This effect appeared to be specific to protein synthesis initiation since (i) methionine incorporation into protein from an exogenous preparation of initiator methionyl-tRNA gave completely analogous results and (ii) the addition of a ribosomal salt wash (containing protein synthesis initiation factors) stimulated protein synthesis by the infected cell lysate but had no effect on protein synthesis by the control. Micrococcal nuclease-treated (initiation-dependent) VSV-infected cell lysates were not able to translate L-cell mRNA unless they were supplemented with a ribosomal salt wash; a salt wash from ribosomes from uninfected cells effected a quicker recovery than a salt wash from ribosomes from infected cells. When salt wash preparations from ribosomes from uninfected and infected cells were tested for initiation factor 2 (eIF-2)-dependent ternary complex capacity with added GTP and initiator methionyl-tRNA, we found that the two preparations contained equivalent levels of eIF-2. However, initiation complex formation by the factor from virus-infected cells proceeded at a reduced initial rate compared with the control. When the lysates were supplemented with a partially purified eIF-2 preparation, recovery of activity by the infected cell lysate was observed. Mechanisms by which downward regulation of eIF-2 activity might direct the selective translation of viral mRNA in VSV-infected cells are proposed.

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