THE REPLICATION OF VIRUSES Virology Lecture 2 Three lectures dealing with (1) replication of DNA viruses (2) the culture, growth and recognition of virus infections (3) the replication of RNA viruses
Dec 18, 2015
THE REPLICATION OF VIRUSESVirology Lecture 2
Three lectures dealing with (1) replication of DNA viruses (2) the culture, growth and recognition of virus infections (3) the replication of RNA viruses
A growth curve for a virus in cell culture, based upon
the simultaneous infection of all cells in the culture
THE MODE OF REPLICATION OF VIRUSES -- WITH
PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO DNA VIRUSES There are a number of sequential steps in replication of
DNA viruses
1. Attachment or adsorption2. Penetration 3. Uncoating of virus and transport of genome to site of replication4. Early transcription (mRNA)5. Early translation and early proteins6. Viral DNA synthesis7. Late transcription of further mRNA8. Late translation and synthesis of structural proteins9. Assembly10.Release
These sequential steps in the replication of DNA
viruses can be considered in groups
1. Attachment or adsorption2. Penetration 3. Uncoating of virus .. transport of genome to site of replication4. Early transcription (mRNA)5. Early translation and early proteins6. Viral DNA synthesis7. Late transcription of further mRNA8. Late translation and synthesis of structural proteins9. Assembly10.Release
….. the red blood cells agglutinate (haemagglutination)
If the virus attaches to red blood cells ....and not all viruses will attach to red blood cells
Step 2. Penetration
• Fusion of the envelope of the virus with the plasma membrane of the cell and the direct release of the nucleocapsid into the cytoplasm. The fusion process is mediated by specific proteins or glycoproteins
OR
• Engulfment of the virus by the cell in a specific phagocytic process (adsorptive endocytosis) before the viral nucleic acid (genome) is released.
Step 3. Uncoating
• This is the general term applied to events after penetration which free the viral genome.
– It can occur in the cytoplasm, or in the cases of viruses that replicate in the nucleus (and this includes most DNA viruses) it occurs in the nucleus following transport of the virion through the cytoplasm to the nucleus.
• Different viruses have evolved different strategies.
– With poxviruses, which replicate in the cytoplasm, host factors induce the disruption of the virus.
– In herpesviruses, after fusion and deposition of the viral nucleocapsid ….in the cytoplasm of the cell …. nucleocapsid migrates to the cell nucleus along the microtubules ….to the nuclear pore, and … is released into the nucleus.
– With papillomaviruses, the virus is transported to the nucleus in vesicles
– Circoviruses gain entry to the nucleus during mitosis
• Next few slides demonstrate the initial stages in the replication of HIV
– attachment – penetration – uncoating and release of virus components into
the nucleus
CD4 antigen
Co-receptor
CD4+ cell
HIV binds to CD4-positive cells
HIV Gp120 (SU)
CD4 antigen
Co-receptor
gp41
(TM)
T4 cell
SU binds to CD4and SU changes conformation
CD4 antigen
Co-
receptor
Modified SU then binds to co-receptor
CD4 antigen
Co-
receptor
CD4 antigen
Co-
receptor
TM undergoes conformational change bringing membranes close together
TM is exposed and embeds in the membrane of the CD4 cell
HIV membrane and cell membrane begin to fuse
Membranes fuse
Nucleocapsid enters cytoplasm
Nuclear membrane
Cell
membrane
Nuclear
pore
Nucleocapsid moves toward nucleus
Nuclear membrane
Interacts with nuclear protein (nuclear pore?)
Reverse transcriptase
protease
integrase
RNA
Surface membrane
Nuclear membrane
tRNA primer
Components enter the nucleus
Steps 4 and 5. Early transcription and translation of viral proteins
The next step is the formation of a mRNA from the virus DNA (transcription) and formation of early viral‑coded proteins (translation).
DNA‑dependent RNA‑polymerase (cell origin, except poxviruses) Viral DNA Viral mRNA Nucleotide pool (ATP,TTP,CTP,GTP)
using cell ribosomes
Viral-coded proteins
What are the early coded proteins? Enzymes necessary for the next step in the process --DNA synthesis (eg. thymidine kinase and a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase) .
Where in the cell does this occur?
With most DNA viruses (but not poxviruses, which replicate in the cytoplasm), the transcriptional events occur in the nucleus.
From there mRNA is transported to the cytoplasm where translation of the coded proteins occurs.
The proteins are then transported back to the nucleus where they are needed before further steps in the replication process can proceed.
Uncoating and release of virus genome in nucleus
Transcription of mRNA from DNA
Translation of mRNA and production of early virus-coded proteins
Some of these virus-coded proteins re-enter the nucleus where they are needed for DNA replication, eg. The virus encodedDNA-dependent DNA polymerase
Step 6. Viral DNA synthesis (DNA replication)
Nucleotide pool in cell
Viral DNA Progeny viral
DNA DNA-dependent DNA polymerase
Progeny virus DNA
Steps 7 and 8. Late transcription and translation of proteins
• Late transcriptional events occur only after DNA synthesis has begun and does not occur if DNA synthesis is inhibited [by inhibitors such as IUDR]
• The late mRNAs which are transcribed are again transported to the cytoplasm and code for structural proteins which are later assembled to form the progeny virus particles.
Some of the structural proteins formed may be glycosylated on the trans-Golgi network before they are transported back to the nucleus, where assembly of the proteins into viral particles occurs.
Late transcription of mRNA
Late translation of virus proteins
Step 9. Assembly of viral particles
• After synthesis of viral nucleic acid and protein these are packaged together to form progeny virus.
• In assembly, the various proteins are assembled in a defined sequence. The inner `core' proteins are the first to associate with DNA, and the capsomers are laid down last.
• With the poxviruses and the iridoviruses ‑ which replicate in the cytoplasm of the cell ‑ progeny DNA and protein accumulate in a common cytoplasmic factory (inclusion) and there is little problem in assembly when the concentration of the two reach an adequate level.
• Other DNA viruses are assembled in the nucleus ‑ assembly occurs after structural proteins (synthesised in the cytoplasm) have migrated back to the nucleus where DNA replication and transcription have occurred.
Assembly
Progeny virus DNA
Structural virus proteins
Step 9. Assembly of viral particles
• After synthesis of viral nucleic acid and protein these are packaged together to form progeny virus.
• Most DNA viruses are assembled in the nucleus ‑ assembly occurs after structural proteins (synthesised in the cytoplasm) have migrated back to the nucleus where DNA replication and transcription have occurred.
• • Poxviruses replicate in the cytoplasm of the cell ‑ progeny DNA
and protein accumulate in a common cytoplasmic factory (inclusion) and assemble when the concentration of the two reach an adequate level.
Step 10. Release of the virus particles from the cell
• By autolysis of the cell - this is the method used by most DNA viruses
– Virus-induced programmed cell death (apoptosis) may be involved
• Herpesviruses mature by a more complex process during which the viruses acquire an envelope
Primary envelopement of capsids by budding at the inner leaflet of the nuclear membrane and translocation of capsids into the cytoplasm after loss of the primary envelope by fusion with the outer leaflet of the nuclear membrane
Tegumentation occurs in the cytoplasm
Capsids obtain final envelope by budding into vesicles of the trans-Golgi network
Final endocytosis from the plasma membrane and directional budding of virions results in release of virus from the cell.
Glycosylation of envelopeproteins and insertion into membrane of vesicles of the Golgi network