Temporal Dynamics of HCMV Gene Expression in Lytic and Latent Infections
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens Human betaherpesvirus 5
PROVIDER: GSE193467 | GEO | 2022/03/29
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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2013-07-17 | E-GEOD-48875 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Human CMV (hCMV) establishes lifelong infections in most of us, causing developmental defects in human embryos and life-threatening disease in immunocompromised individuals. During productive infection, the viral >230,000-bp dsDNA genome is expressed widely and in a temporal cascade. The hCMV genome does not carry histones when encapsidated but has been proposed to form nucleosomes after release into the host cell nucleus. Here, we present hCMV genome-wide nucleosome occupancy and nascent transcript maps during infection of permissive human primary cells. We show that nucleosomes occupy nuclear viral DNA in a nonrandom and highly predictable fashion. At early times of infection, nucleosomes associate with the hCMV genome largely according to their intrinsic DNA sequence preferences, indicating that initial nucleosome formation is genetically encoded in the virus. However, as infection proceeds to the late phase, nucleosomes redistribute extensively to establish patterns mostly determined by nongenetic factors. We propose that these factors include key regulators of viral gene expression encoded at the hCMV major immediate-early (IE) locus. Indeed, mutant virus genomes defcient for IE1 expression exhibit globally increased nucleosome loads and reduced nucleosome dynamics compared with WT genomes. The temporal nucleosome occupancy differences between IE1-defcient and WT viruses correlate inversely with changes in the pattern of viral nascent and total transcript accumulation. These results provide a framework of spatial and temporal nucleosome organization across the genome of a major human pathogen and suggest that an hCMV major IE protein governs overall viral chromatin structure and function.
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Project description:Aguilera 2014 - HIV latency. Interaction
between HIV proteins and immune response
This model is described in the article:
Studying HIV latency by
modeling the interaction between HIV proteins and the innate
immune response.
Aguilera LU,
Rodríguez-González J.
J. Theor. Biol. 2014 Nov; 360:
67-77
Abstract:
HIV infection leads to two cell fates, the viral productive
state or viral latency (a reversible non-productive state). HIV
latency is relevant because infected active CD4+ T-lymphocytes
can reach a resting memory state in which the provirus remains
silent for long periods of time. Despite experimental and
theoretical efforts, the causal molecular mechanisms
responsible for HIV latency are only partially understood.
Studies have determined that HIV latency is influenced by the
innate immune response carried out by cell restriction factors
that inhibit the postintegration steps in the virus replication
cycle. In this study, we present a mathematical study that
combines deterministic and stochastic approaches to analyze the
interactions between HIV proteins and the innate immune
response. Using wide ranges of parameter values, we observed
the following: (1) a phenomenological description of the viral
productive and latent cell phenotypes is obtained by bistable
and bimodal dynamics, (2) biochemical noise reduces the
probability that an infected cell adopts the latent state, (3)
the effects of the innate immune response enhance the HIV
latency state, (4) the conditions of the cell before infection
affect the latent phenotype, i.e., the existing expression of
cell restriction factors propitiates HIV latency, and existing
expression of HIV proteins reduces HIV latency.
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