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Nucleic Acids Research, 1993, Vol. 21, No. 12 2931-2937
© 1993

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The human cytomegalovirus US3 immediate-early protein lacking the putative transmembrane domain regulates gene expression

Daniel J. Tenney+, Linda D. Santomenna, Karyn B. Goudie§ and Anamaris M. Colberg-Poley*

The Du Pont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. PO Box 80328, Wilmington, DE 19880-0328, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Center I Research, R-213, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20010-2970, USA

Received July 22, 1992. Revised May 6, 1993. Accepted April 15, 1993.

Through alternative transcript splicing, the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) US3 immediate-early (IE) locus encodes multiple products including potential membrane-bound glycoproteins. To characterize the US3 products and determine which encode regulatory activity, individual cDNAs were cloned and expressed. Three transcript species were confirmed through the isolation of cDNAs; an unspliced transcript, a transcript spliced once from exon 3 to exon 5 and a transcript spliced both at exon 1 to exon 3 and at exon 3 to exon 5. The predicted signal sequences and N-linked glycosylation sites in the US3 products were confirmed using expression in reticuiocyte lysates containing microsomal membranes. Regulatory activity of the individual US3 products was demonstrated using transient transfection assays. The unspliced cDNA and the cDNA containing the exon 3 to exon 5 splice, encoded products which increased expression of the human heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) promoter, while the product of the doubly-spliced US3 cDNA did not. Transactivation was synergistically increased by coexpression with the HCMV UL37 protein. We conclude that the first 132 amino acids common to the unspliced and the singly-spliced US3 gene products are sufficient for hsp70 transactivation; while the aminoterminal 28 amino acids, encoded by the doubly-spliced US3 cDNA, are not. These resuits demonstrate that a US3 IE protein lacking the putative transmembrane domain has regulatory activity.

Present addresses: +Department of Virology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, NJ 08543-4000

Present addresses: §;DUMC, Box 3020, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Durham, NC 27710, USA


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