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ArticleJournal of virology1999

Expression and characterization of a novel structural protein of human cytomegalovirus, pUL25.

M C Battista, G Bergamini, M C Boccuni, F Campanini, A Ripalti, M P Landini

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Article in Journal of virology, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M C BattistaDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Division of Microbiology, University of Bologna, St. Orsola Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
G Bergamini
M C Boccuni
F Campanini
A Ripalti
M P Landini
University of Bologna · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) UL25 has recently been found to encode a new structural protein that is present in both virion and defective viral particles (C. J. Baldick and T. Shenk, J. Virol. 70:6097-6105, 1996). In the present work a polyclonal antibody was raised against a prokaryotic pUL25 fusion protein in order to investigate the biosynthesis and localization of the UL25 product (pUL25) during HCMV replication in human fibroblasts. Furthermore, pUL25 was transiently expressed in its native form and fused to the FLAG epitope, in COS7 and U373MG cells, in order to compare the properties of the isolated protein and that produced during infection. Immunoblotting analysis revealed a group of polypeptides, ranging from 80 to 100 kDa, in both transfected and infected cells; in vivo labeling experiments with infected cells demonstrated they are posttranslationally modified by phosphorylation. The transcriptional analysis of the UL25 open reading frame combined with the study of pUL25 biosynthesis showed true late kinetics for this protein in infected human fibroblasts. By indirect immunofluorescence both recombinant and viral pUL25 were detected exclusively in the cytoplasm of transfected or infected cells. Interestingly, pUL25 was shown to localize in typical condensed structures in the perinuclear region as already observed for other HCMV tegument proteins. Colocalization of ppUL99 in the same vacuoles suggests that these structure are endosomal cisternae, which are proposed to be a preferential site of viral particle envelopment. Our data suggest that pUL25 is most likely a novel tegument protein and possibly plays a key role in the process of envelopment.

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AnimalsCOS CellsCytomegalovirusEpitopesGene ExpressionHumansMiceOligopeptidesPeptidesProkaryotic CellsProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSubcellular FractionsTime FactorsTranscription, GeneticTumor Cells, CulturedEpitopesFLAG peptideOligopeptidesPeptidesRecombinant Fusion ProteinsUL25 protein, CytomegalovirusViral Proteins

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PMID10196274
PMCPMC104157
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