The Interactive Complex between Cytomegalovirus Kinase vCDK/pUL97 and Host Factors CDK7-Cyclin H Determines Individual Patterns of Transcription in Infected Cells

The infection of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is strongly determined by the host-cell interaction in a way that the efficiency of HCMV lytic replication is dependent on the regulatory interplay between viral and cellular proteins. In particular, the activities of protein kinases, such as cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and the viral CDK ortholog (vCDK/pUL97), play an important role in both viral reproduction and virus-host interaction. Very recently, we reported on the complexes formed between vCDK/pUL97, human cyclin H, and CDK7. Major hallmarks of this interplay are the interaction between cyclin H and vCDK/pUL97, which is consistently detectable across various conditions and host cell types of infection, the decrease or increase in pUL97 kinase activity resulting from cyclin H knock-down or elevated levels, respectively, and significant trans-stimulation of human CDK7 activity by pUL97 in vitro. Due to the fact that even a ternary complex of vCDK/pUL97-cyclin H-CDK7 can be detected by coimmunoprecipitation and visualized by bioinformatic structural modeling, we postulated a putative impact of the respective kinase activities on the patterns of transcription in HCMV-infected cells. Here, we undertook a first vCDK/pUL97-specific transcriptomic analysis, which combined conditions of fully lytic HCMV replication with those under specific vCDK/pUL97 or CDK7 drug-mediated inhibition or transient cyclin H knockout. The novel results were further strengthened using bioinformatic modeling of the involved multi-protein complexes. Our data underline the importance of these kinase activities for the C-terminal domain (CTD) phosphorylation-driven activation of host RNA polymerase in HCMV-infected cells. The impact of the individual experimental conditions on differentially expressed gene profiles is described in detail and discussed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

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International journal of molecular sciences - 24(2023), 24 vom: 13. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schütz, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Cordsmeier, Arne [VerfasserIn]
Wangen, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Horn, Anselm H C [VerfasserIn]
Wyler, Emanuel [VerfasserIn]
Ensser, Armin [VerfasserIn]
Sticht, Heinrich [VerfasserIn]
Marschall, Manfred [VerfasserIn]

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Cyclin H
Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs)
Cyclins
EC 2.7.11.22
First vCDK/pUL97-specific transcriptomic analysis
Functional complexation with host CDK7
Human cytomegalovirus
Impact on RNA polymerase (RNAP II) in infected cells
Journal Article
VCDK/pUL97–cyclin binding
Viral CDK ortholog (vCDK/pUL97)

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Date Completed 25.12.2023

Date Revised 25.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ijms242417421

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366299166