Nuclear-cytoplasmic compartmentalization of the herpes simplex virus 1 infected cell transcriptome is co-ordinated by the viral endoribonuclease vhs and cofactors to facilitate the translation of late proteins.

HSV1 encodes an endoribonuclease termed virion host shutoff (vhs) that is produced late in infection and packaged into virions. Paradoxically, vhs is active against not only host but also virus transcripts, and is involved in host shutoff and the temporal expression of the virus transcriptome. Two o...

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Main Authors: Kathleen Pheasant, Carla Sofia Möller-Levet, Juliet Jones, Daniel Depledge, Judith Breuer, Gillian Elliott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007331