Mouse polyomavirus (MPyV) is small non-enveloped DNA virus. Although this virus has been studied for almost 60 years, it still remains unclear, how can virus transport its genetic information to the cell nucleus. Also, the mechanism of virion morphogenesis is not well understood. First part of this work is focused on endocytic pathway which is used by MPyV for trafficking toward the cell nucleus. Using dominant negative mutant of caveolin-1 we showed that caveolin-1dependent endocytic pathway, described for SV40, is not used by MPyV for productive infection. MPyV is transported to early endosomes. Acidic milieu of endosomes is indispensable for productive infection. Preventing virus localisation into early endosomes (dominant negative mutant of Rab 5 GTPase) or endosomes alkalisation (by ammonium chloride or bafilomycin A1) led to dramatic decrease of virus infectivity. Alkalisation of endosomes entailed retention of MPyV in early endosomes. It indicates that virus is further transported to late endosomes. Finally, we confirmed by FRET that MPyV is in perinuclear space localized into recycling endosomes. Another poor characterized process is virion morphogenesis. To characterize the participation of cellular proteins in virion precursor complexes, nuclear as well as whole-cell lysates of infected cells or...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:309830 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Horníková, Lenka |
| Contributors | Forstová, Jitka, Němečková, Šárka, Mělková, Zora |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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