RNA from an immediate early region of the type 1 herpes simplex virus genome is present in the trigeminal ganglia of latently infected mice. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Transcription of the type 1 herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) genome in trigeminal ganglia of latently infected mice was studied using in situ hybridization. Probes representative of each temporal gene class were used to determine the regions of the genome that encode the transcripts present in latently infected cells. Probes encoding HSV-1 sequences of the five immediate early genes and representative early (thymidine kinase), early-late (major capsid protein), and late (glycoprotein C) genes were used in these experiments. Of the probes tested, only those encoding the immediate early gene product infected-cell polypeptide (ICP) 0 hybridized to RNA in latently infected tissues. Probes containing the other immediate early genes (ICP4, ICP22, ICP27, and ICP47) and the representative early, early-late, and late genes did not hybridize. Two probes covering approximately equal to 30% of the HSV-1 genome and encoding over 20 early and late transcripts also did not hybridize to RNA in latently infected tissues. These results, with probes spanning greater than 60% of the HSV-1 genome, suggest that transcription of the HSV-1 genome is restricted to one region in latently infected mouse trigeminal ganglia.

publication date

  • May 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Ganglia
  • Genes
  • Genes, Viral
  • Immediate-Early Proteins
  • RNA, Viral
  • Simplexvirus
  • Trigeminal Nerve
  • Viral Proteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC304837

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0009602729

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.84.10.3204

PubMed ID

  • 3033640

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 84

issue

  • 10