Recruitment of cyclin-dependent kinase 9 to nuclear compartments during cytomegalovirus late replication: importance of an interaction between viral pUL69 and cyclin T1 Free

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Cyclin-dependent protein kinases (CDKs) are important regulators of cellular processes and are functionally integrated into the replication of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). Recently, a regulatory impact of CDK activity on the viral mRNA export factor pUL69 was shown. Here, specific aspects of the mode of interaction between CDK9/cyclin T1 and pUL69 are described. Intracellular localization was studied in the presence of a novel selective CDK9 inhibitor, R22, which exerts anti-cytomegaloviral activity . A pronounced R22-induced formation of nuclear speckled aggregation of pUL69 was demonstrated. Multi-labelling confocal laser-scanning microscopy revealed that CDK9 and cyclin T1 co-localized perfectly with pUL69 in individual speckles. The effects were similar to those described recently for the broad CDK inhibitor roscovitine. Co-immunoprecipitation and yeast two-hybrid analyses showed that cyclin T1 interacted with both CDK9 and pUL69. The interaction region of pUL69 for cyclin T1 could be attributed to aa 269–487. Moreover, another component of CDK inhibitor-induced speckled aggregates was identified with RNA polymerase II, supporting earlier reports that strongly suggested an association of pUL69 with transcription complexes. Interestingly, when using a UL69-deleted recombinant HCMV, no speckled aggregates were formed by CDK inhibitor treatment. This indicated that pUL69 is the defining component of aggregates and generally may represent a crucial viral interactor of cyclin T1. In conclusion, these data emphasize that HCMV inter-regulation with CDK9/cyclin T1 is at least partly based on a pUL69–cylin T1 interaction, thus contributing to the importance of CDK9 for HCMV replication.

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