Figure 2.
Fatty acid elongase 7 is strongly induced by HCMV and required for efficient production of infectious progeny.
(A) ELOVL1-7 mRNA levels during the course of HCMV replication. MRC-5 fibroblasts infected at 3 IU/cell were compared to mock infected cells for ELOVL1-6. The (*) denotes that, because the ELOVL7 transcript was not detectable in uninfected cells, the ELOVL7 the data is reported as fold change from 4 hpi.
(B) HCMV replication in MRC-5 fibroblasts with shRNA knockdown of ELOVL1-7 (compared to non-targeting (NT) sequence control). Knockdown cells were infected at 0.5 IU/cell and at 96 hpi the medium was assayed for infectious progeny. (* p<0.05, t-test)
All data are represented as mean ± SEM of at least three independent experiments. See also Figure S2.