Viruses as hijackers of PML nuclear body

• Authors: A. Moller , M.L. Schmitz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Promyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies (PML-NBs) are discrete interchromosomal macromolecular structures. The integrity of this dynamic nuclear subcompartment critically depends on the presence of the name-giving PML protein. Among the permanent or transient residents of PML-NBs are various regulatory proteins, including Sp100, CBP, pRb, HIPK2, RAD51 and p53. PML-NBs are frequently targeted by viral infections, as a number of different RNA and DNA viruses including herpesviruses, adenoviruses, papovaviruses, papillomaviruses and arenaviruses cause changes in PML-NBs. Viruses interfere with PML-NB in two ways: 1) some viral proteins can associate with PML-NB proteins and/or lead to the destruction and lysis of this subnuclear compartment, thus aiding viral gene expression and disabling the host's innate immunity; 2) the parental genomes of some nuclear-replicating DNA viruses associate preferentially with PML-NBs, which presumably serves to assist in viral gene expression or replication. Here we feature the different viral strategies leading to the hijacking of PML-NBs and discuss the consequences for the immune response.

Keywords

EN

NUCLEAR BODY; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; VIRUS INFECTION

Discipline

• IMMUNOLOGY: IMMUNOLOGY

• Publisher: Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis
• Year: 2003
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 295-300

Contributors

author

A. Moller

author

M.L. Schmitz

• Document Type: REVIEW
• Publication order reference: A. Moller, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland