PMID- 24749493 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150710 LR - 20191210 IS - 1460-2202 (Electronic) IS - 0271-3683 (Linking) VI - 39 IP - 12 DP - 2014 Dec TI - Functional hierarchy of herpes simplex virus type-1 membrane proteins in corneal infection and virus transmission to ganglionic neurons. PG - 1169-77 LID - 10.3109/02713683.2014.906626 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: To determine the relative importance of viral glycoproteins gK, gM, gE and the membrane protein UL11 in infection of mouse corneas and ganglionic neurons. METHODS: Mouse eyes were scarified and infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1(F), gE-null, gM-null, gK-null, or UL11-null viruses. Clinical signs of ocular disease were monitored daily. Virus shedding was determined at 24, 48 and 72 h post infection. Viral DNA within trigeminal ganglia (TG) was quantified by quantitative PCR at 30 d post infection. RESULTS: The gE-null virus replicated as efficiently as the parental virus and formed viral plaques approximately half-the-size in comparison with the HSV-1(F) wild-type virus. The UL11-null and gM-null viruses replicated approximately one log less efficiently than the wild-type virus, and formed plaques that were on average one-third the size and one-half the size of the wild-type virus, respectively. The gK-null virus replicated more than 3-logs less efficiently than the wild-type virus and formed very small plaques (5-10 cells). Mice infected with the wild-type virus exhibited mild clinical ocular symptoms, while mice infected with the mutant viruses did not show any significant ocular changes. The wild-type virus produced the highest virus shedding post infection followed by the gM-null, gE-null and UL11-null viruses, while no gK-null virus was detected at any time point. All TG collected from mice infected with the wild-type virus and 6-of-10 of TG retrieved from mice infected with the UL11-null virus contained high numbers of viral genomes. The gE-null and gM-null-infected ganglia contained moderate-to-low number of viral genomes in 4-of-10 and 2-of-10 mice, respectively. No viral genomes were detected in ganglionic tissues obtained from gK-null eye infections. CONCLUSIONS: The results show that gK plays the most important role among gM, gE and UL11 in corneal and ganglionic infection in the mouse eye model. FAU - Kim, In-Joong AU - Kim IJ AD - Division of Biotechnology & Molecular Medicine, Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA , USA. FAU - Saied, Ahmad A AU - Saied AA FAU - Chouljenko, Vladimir N AU - Chouljenko VN FAU - Subramanian, Ramesh AU - Subramanian R FAU - Kousoulas, Konstantin G AU - Kousoulas KG LA - eng GR - P20GM103458/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140421 PL - England TA - Curr Eye Res JT - Current eye research JID - 8104312 RN - 0 (DNA, Viral) RN - 0 (Membrane Glycoproteins) RN - 0 (UL10 protein, Human herpesvirus 1) RN - 0 (UL11 protein, herpesviridae) RN - 0 (UL53 protein, Human herpesvirus 1) RN - 0 (Viral Envelope Proteins) RN - 0 (Viral Matrix Proteins) RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) RN - 0 (Viral Structural Proteins) RN - 0 (glycoprotein E, herpes simplex virus type 1) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Chlorocebus aethiops MH - Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial MH - Cornea/*innervation/virology MH - DNA, Viral/analysis MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Herpesvirus 1, Human/*physiology MH - Keratitis, Herpetic/*virology MH - Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Trigeminal Ganglion/*virology MH - Vero Cells MH - Viral Envelope Proteins/physiology MH - Viral Matrix Proteins/*physiology MH - Viral Proteins/physiology MH - Viral Structural Proteins/physiology MH - *Virus Replication MH - Virus Shedding/physiology OTO - NOTNLM OT - UL11 OT - gE OT - gK OT - gM OT - herpes simplex virus OT - neuroinvasion OT - ocular infection EDAT- 2014/04/23 06:00 MHDA- 2015/07/15 06:00 CRDT- 2014/04/23 06:00 PHST- 2014/04/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/04/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/07/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.3109/02713683.2014.906626 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Eye Res. 2014 Dec;39(12):1169-77. doi: 10.3109/02713683.2014.906626. Epub 2014 Apr 21.