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Proteins at the

trans

-Golgi Network To Promote Virus Replication

Kathryne E. Taylor, Karen L. Mossman

Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

ABSTRACT

It has recently been proposed that the herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein ICP0 has cytoplasmic roles in blocking antiviral

sig-naling and in promoting viral replication in addition to its well-known proteasome-dependent functions in the nucleus.

How-ever, the mechanisms through which it produces these effects remain unclear. While investigating this further, we identified a

novel cytoplasmic interaction between ICP0 and the poorly characterized cellular protein WDR11. During an HSV infection,

WDR11 undergoes a dramatic change in localization at late times in the viral replication cycle, moving from defined perinuclear

structures to a dispersed cytoplasmic distribution. While this relocation was not observed during infection with viruses other

than HSV-1 and correlated with efficient HSV-1 replication, the redistribution was found to occur independently of ICP0

ex-pression, instead requiring viral late gene expression. We demonstrate for the first time that WDR11 is localized to the

trans

-Golgi network (TGN), where it interacts specifically with some, but not all, HSV virion components, in addition to ICP0.

Knock-down of WDR11 in cultured human cells resulted in a modest but consistent decrease in yields of both wild-type and ICP0-null

viruses, in the supernatant and cell-associated fractions, without affecting viral gene expression. Although further study is

re-quired, we propose that WDR11 participates in viral assembly and/or secondary envelopment.

IMPORTANCE

While the TGN has been proposed to be the major site of HSV-1 secondary envelopment, this process is incompletely

under-stood, and in particular, the role of cellular TGN components in this pathway is unknown. Additionally, little is known about the

cellular functions of WDR11, although the disruption of this protein has been implicated in multiple human diseases. Therefore,

our finding that WDR11 is a TGN-resident protein that interacts with specific viral proteins to enhance viral yields improves

both our understanding of basic cellular biology as well as how this protein is co-opted by HSV.

W

ith worldwide seroprevalence rates reaching 60 to 90% (

1

),

herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) is a tremendously successful

human pathogen. HSV-1 particles consist of a double-stranded

DNA genome encased by an icosahedral capsid, surrounded by a

proteinaceous layer known as the tegument, which is in turn

en-closed by an envelope of host-derived lipids (

2

). During the lytic

replication cycle, viral glycoprotein-mediated fusion of the

enve-lope with the host cell plasma membrane releases the capsid and

tegument proteins into the cytosol (

3

). HSV capsids are then

transported to the nucleus along microtubules via molecular

mo-tor proteins (

4

). The release of the genome into the nucleus is

followed by viral gene expression in a sequential manner,

begin-ning with the immediate-early (IE) genes and then progressing to

the early (E) and late (L) classes, resulting in viral genomic DNA

replication and packaging into capsids.

Although subsequent steps have been controversial, it is now

generally accepted that capsids escape from the nucleus by first

budding from the inner nuclear membrane, acquiring a primary

envelope, and then fusing with the outer nuclear membrane,

re-leasing the unenveloped capsids into the cytoplasm (

5

,

6

). To

be-come mature particles, these capsids must then undergo

second-ary envelopment. Although the exact mechanism and subcellular

location at which this event takes place have been highly debated

(

7–12

), current evidence appears to support the

trans

-Golgi

net-work (TGN) as the major site of secondary envelopment (

8

,

9

,

13–17

). This network of tubules connected with the

trans

-face of

the Golgi apparatus functions in the secretory pathway as a sorting

station, directing cargo into distinct carriers which transport them

to their final cellular destinations (reviewed in references

18

and

19

). Although the exact details of secondary envelopment remain

unclear, interactions between the tegument proteins and

glyco-proteins that gather at the TGN and the capsid and

capsid-associ-ated tegument proteins are thought to help drive this process (

5

,

20

). The resulting enveloped viral particles within transport

vesi-cles travel to and fuse with the plasma membrane, releasing

ma-ture viruses, via the classical pathway of cargo transport from the

TGN to the cell surface (

17

).

Infected cell protein 0 (ICP0) is a multifunctional IE HSV-1

protein with roles in enhancing viral gene expression during lytic

replication, promoting reactivation from latency, and opposing

both the intrinsic and the interferon-mediated antiviral response

(reviewed in reference

21

). Traditionally, the majority of ICP0

functions have been thought to occur in the nucleus—where the

Received6 July 2015 Accepted12 July 2015

Accepted manuscript posted online15 July 2015

CitationTaylor KE, Mossman KL. 2015. Cellular protein WDR11 interacts with specific herpes simplex virus proteins at thetrans-Golgi network to promote virus replication. J Virol 89:9841–9852.doi:10.1128/JVI.01705-15.

Editor:R. M. Sandri-Goldin

Address correspondence to Karen L. Mossman, [email protected].

Copyright © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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protein localizes early in infection (

22

)—through its ability to

target proteins for degradation via the proteasome using the E3

ubiquitin ligase activity of its RING finger domain (

23–25

).

How-ever, ICP0 is found largely in the cytoplasm as the infection

pro-gresses (

26–30

), and evidence is mounting that it also has

impor-tant activities in this location (

31–33

). Interestingly, a RING

finger-independent cytoplasmic function for ICP0 in promoting

viral replication has recently been suggested (

33

), implying that

this protein may have activities that are distinct from its

func-tion in proteasome-mediated protein degradafunc-tion. However, the

mechanism through which ICP0 produces this effect remains

un-clear.

Although widely expressed in human tissues (

34

) and highly

conserved in vertebrates (

35

), the cellular protein WD repeat

do-main 11 (WDR11) is poorly understood. Disruption of the

WDR11 gene has been found in both human glioma cells (

34

) and

breast cancer cells (

36

), leading to the suggestion that WDR11

may act as a tumor suppressor, and mutations in WDR11 have

also been reported in patients with idiopathic hypogonadotropic

hypogonadism (IHH), Kallmann syndrome (KS), and combined

pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) (

37

), conditions

character-ized by low sex steroids and delayed puberty (

35

,

38

).

Addition-ally, depletion of WDR11 was found to sensitize cells to the

AB-type toxin ricin (

39

). Although a potential function in autophagy

for WDR11 has been proposed to explain some of these results

(

39

,

40

), the molecular mechanisms through which WDR11 is

involved in these diverse activities remain unknown.

To further characterize the mechanism of action of ICP0 in the

cytosol, we recently performed quantitative mass spectrometry to

identify proteins that coimmunoprecipitated with ICP0 from

cy-toplasmic extracts (unpublished data). One of the proteins

iden-tified in this screen was WDR11. Here, we characterize the

ICP0-WDR11 interaction in more detail. We found that ICP0-WDR11 has a

tight perinuclear distribution in uninfected human fibroblasts,

but undergoes a profound redistribution at late times

postinfec-tion in an HSV-1-specific manner. Interestingly, although ICP0

was found to interact strongly with WDR11, this protein is not

degraded during an HSV-1 infection, and the relocation of

WDR11 was found to occur independently of ICP0. To begin to

explain this finding, we show for the first time that WDR11 is

localized to the TGN and interacts specifically with some, but not

all, HSV-1 virion components. Additionally, depletion of WDR11

was found to cause a modest but reproducible decrease in the

yields of both cell-associated and secreted virus for wild-type

HSV-1 as well as an ICP0-null mutant, without affecting viral gene

expression, suggesting a possible role for this protein in viral

as-sembly in the cytoplasm or secondary envelopment.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Cells, viruses, reagents, and plasmids.Human embryonic lung (HEL) fibroblasts and U2OS osteosarcoma cells were purchased from the Amer-ican Type Culture Collection (ATCC) and grown in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 2 mML-glutamine, 100 U/ml penicillin, and 100 mg/ml streptomycin. Polyinosinic/poly(C) (poly I·C; GE Healthcare) was directly added to cul-ture medium at a concentration of 100␮g/ml. Wild-type HSV-1 strain 17 syn (41) was propagated on Vero cells, while the ICP0-null strain dl1403 (42) was grown on U2OS in the presence of 3 mM hexamethylene bisac-etamide (HMBA). Both viruses were purified on a 36% sucrose cushion. Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV; strain AD169; kindly provided by T. Compton) was propagated on HEL fibroblasts; Sendai virus (SeV; strain

Cantell) was purchased from Charles River Laboratories; and vesicular stomatitis virus expressing green fluorescent protein (VSV-GFP; kindly provided by B. Lichty) was propagated on Vero cells. All viral infections were performed for 1 h in serum-free medium at 37°C, at the following multiplicities of infection (MOIs): 10 PFU/cell for 17 syn and dl1403, 0.5 PFU/cell for HCMV, 80 hemagglutinating units (HAU)/106cells for SeV,

and 0.1 PFU/cell for VSV-GFP. Transfections were performed with 15␮g of pCI-D8 (57) or the empty vector and 48␮l Lipofectamine 2000 (Invit-rogen) per 10-cm dish of U2OS cells, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, 24 h before harvest.

Immunoprecipitation.For immunoprecipitation (IP) experiments, cytoplasmic extracts were generated as previously described (33). Five micrograms of anti-ICP0 (Virusys) or 0.8␮g anti-WDR11 (ab93871; Ab-cam) antibody was incubated with 20␮l of Dynabeads protein G (Life Technologies) for 1 h at 4°C. Beads were washed three times with immu-noprecipitation buffer (50 mM Tris [pH 8.0], 150 mM NaCl, and 1% NP-40) and incubated with 500␮g (HEL) or 250␮g (U2OS) of cytoplas-mic extract for 16 h at 4°C. Beads were washed 5 times and eluted either by boiling in sample buffer containing SDS and␤-mercaptoethanol (for WDR11 IPs) or via two consecutive 2-min incubations with 20␮l of elution buffer (100 mM glycine, pH 2.0) and neutralization with 4␮l 2 M Tris, pH 8.0 (for ICP0 IPs).

Western blotting.For Western blotting studies, radioimmunopre-cipitation assay (RIPA) extracts and cytoplasmic extracts were generated as previously described (33), and extract protein levels were quantified via Bradford assay (Bio-Rad Laboratories). Twenty-five-microgram aliquots of the indicated extracts were separated via electrophoresis on 10% dena-turing polyacrylamide gels, transferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (Millipore), and blocked in 5% skim milk. Blots were probed with 1:1,000 dilutions of the following primary antibodies: anti-ICP0, ICP4, ICP27, gC, and gB (Virusys Corporation), actin and ICP8 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), WDR11, and anti-VP16 (LP1; ab110226; Abcam). Secondary antibodies conjugated to horseradish peroxidase were used at a dilution of 1:5,000, and the signals were visualized via chemiluminescence.

Immunofluorescence.For the immunofluorescence assays, HEL or U2OS cells were seeded onto coverslips and infected at 50% confluence. At the indicated times, cells were fixed with 10% formalin (Sigma), per-meabilized with 0.1% Triton X-100, and blocked with 3% goat serum, 3% bovine serum albumin, and 0.02% Tween 20. Cells were incubated with 1:250 anti-ICP0, 1:250 anti-WDR11, or 1:100 anti-TGN46 (AHP500; Se-rotec), and then 1:250 anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 488 or Alexa Fluor 594 (Invitrogen) or 1:250 anti-sheep Alexa Fluor 488 (Life Technologies) sec-ondary antibodies. Nuclei were stained with 1:10,000 Hoechst 33258 dye. All images were captured with a Leica DM-IRE2 inverted microscope and analyzed using Openlab software (Improvision).

siRNA transfections.For small interfering RNA (siRNA) transfec-tions, the WDR11 ON-TARGETplus SMARTpool (Dharmacon) (se-quences: 5=-GCCAAGAAAGCUCUAAAUA-3=, 5=-GGAUGUAGCAGC AGGAGUA-3=, 5=-GGUAUUGAAUGGACAAGUU-3=, and 5=-GCAGU CGUAUUCAGAGAUA-3=) and the ON-TARGETplus nontargeting pool (Dharmacon) were resuspended in sterile nuclease-free water to make 5 ␮M stocks. Next, 25 nM siRNA was combined with 3␮l Dharmafect 1 (Dharmacon) in serum-free DMEM per well of a 12-well plate, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, and added to quarter-seeded (HEL) or half-seeded (U2OS) cells. Medium was replaced after 6 h. Cells were left to grow for 3 days, then challenged with 17 syn or dl1403 for 24 h in 1 ml of medium. The medium was then removed and spun at 1,500 rpm in a GH-3.8 rotor (Beckman Coulter) for 10 min to remove any cells, and the supernatant was frozen. Meanwhile, the cells were scraped into 1 ml se-rum-free medium and freeze-thawed three times.

Plaque assays.Serial dilutions of the appropriate samples were used to infect U2OS cells in the presence of HMBA and 2% human serum, and after 3 days cells were fixed with methanol and stained with Giemsa (Sigma), and plaques were counted.

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Statistical analysis.Statistical analysis was performed using Graph-Pad Prism. Where necessary, values were first adjusted via logarithmic transformation to equalize variances.

RESULTS

ICP0 interacts with the cellular protein WDR11.

In a screen for

cytoplasmic proteins that bind to ICP0, we recently identified the

poorly characterized cellular protein WDR11. To further

investi-gate this potential interaction, we first performed reciprocal

co-immunoprecipitations (co-IPs) in cells infected with wild-type

HSV-1 strain 17 syn (

Fig. 1A

). Accordingly, endogenous WDR11

was confirmed to be present after IP with an anti-ICP0 antibody,

and ICP0 was found after IP with an anti-WDR11 antibody.

Iden-tical results were also observed when cells were infected with D8/

FXE (data not shown), a virus encoding an ICP0 mutant lacking

both the RING finger of ICP0 as well as the nuclear localization

signal, which causes the protein to localize to the cytoplasm (

33

).

We next tested whether ICP0 induces the proteasome-mediated

degradation of WDR11, given that the RING finger is not required

for this interaction, by determining the levels of WDR11 after

infection (

Fig. 1B

), and we found no loss of WDR11, even at late

times postinfection with either 17 syn, which expresses high levels

of ICP0 at this time, or the ICP0-null HSV-1 strain dl1403.

WDR11 becomes relocalized at late times postinfection in an

HSV-specific but ICP0-independent manner.

We next examined

the subcellular localization of endogenous WDR11. In primary

human HEL fibroblasts (

Fig. 2A

), WDR11 is found in the

cyto-plasm in a characteristic pattern adjacent to the nucleus in

mock-treated cells. However, beginning approximately 8 h after

infec-FIG 1ICP0 interacts with WDR11 but does not cause its degradation. (A) HEL cells were infected with the indicated viruses at 10 PFU/cell for 8 h, and then samples were harvested via cytoplasmic extract and immunoprecipitated with the indicated antibodies. Eluents were then analyzed via Western blotting for ICP0 and WDR11. (B) HEL cells were infected with the indicated viruses at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h and then harvested in RIPA extract and analyzed for WDR11, ICP0, and actin levels via Western blotting.

FIG 2WDR11 has a distinct perinuclear distribution that becomes dispersed at late times after HSV-1 infection in an ICP0-independent manner. HEL cells (A) or U2OS cells (B) were mock treated or infected with the indicated viruses at 10 PFU/cell for the times shown and then fixed and analyzed for WDR11 localization via immunofluorescence. Nuclei were identified using Hoechst stain.

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tion with 17 syn (data not shown) and becoming pronounced by

12 h postinfection (hpi), WDR11 undergoes a dramatic

redistri-bution, losing the tight perinuclear localization and becoming

dis-persed throughout the cytoplasm. In contrast, even at the very late

time point of 24 hpi in HEL cells, no redistribution of WDR11 was

observed with dl1403, suggesting that this effect may be

depen-dent on ICP0. However, because ICP0-null viruses show a

repli-cation defect in human fibroblasts at the MOI we used here, it was

not clear whether the lack of WDR11 relocation was directly due

to the absence of ICP0 or was rather a by-product of the decreased

replication of dl1403. Therefore, the experiment was repeated in

U2OS cells (

Fig. 2B

), which complement the growth of ICP0-null

viruses (

43

). Although these highly permissive cells were

begin-ning to show morphological changes as a result of the

HSV-in-duced cytopathic effect at late times postinfection, the relocation

of WDR11 was clearly detectable with dl1043 as well as 17 syn by

12 hpi, demonstrating that this effect correlates with the efficiency

of viral replication and not specifically with the expression of

ICP0.

Given that WDR11 relocation was not dependent on ICP0

ex-pression, we next examined whether this change in localization

was a general consequence of viral infection or was due to

activa-tion of the antiviral response (

Fig. 3A

). HEL cells were therefore

infected with HCMV, VSV-GFP, or SeV at MOIs adjusted to

pro-duce approximately equal levels of cytopathic effect at 16 hpi, or

the cells were treated with the synthetic double-stranded RNA

analogue poly I·C. At that time, WDR11 redistribution was

ob-served only after infection with 17 syn and remained intact with all

other treatments. While this time point is late in the replication

cycles of SeV, VSV, and HSV (

44–48

), it occurs relatively early for

HCMV (

49

). Therefore, we also monitored WDR11 localization

over 4 days after infection with HCMV (data not shown), and

although we never observed a dispersal of WDR11 comparable to

that seen with HSV-1, we did find a subtle but consistent

relocal-ization of WDR11, in a pattern similar to the previously reported

reorganization of TGN markers into HCMV assembly sites (

50

).

To begin to determine how HSV-1 produces this effect on

WDR11, we next investigated whether the dispersal could be

pre-vented by blocking viral DNA synthesis using phosphonoacetate

(PAA) (

Fig. 3B

). As expected, this resulted in the inhibition of viral

late gene expression, as monitored by observing gC production,

and also prevented the redistribution of WDR11, implicating one

or more late gene products in this process.

WDR11 colocalizes with the TGN marker TGN46.

This

HSV-1 late gene-specific dispersal of WDR11 in the cytoplasm at

late times postinfection is similar to the disruption of both the

Golgi apparatus and the TGN that has been reported during HSV

infections (

8

,

15

,

51–54

). Indeed, markers for both structures have

been shown to lose their tight perinuclear organization and

be-come scattered throughout the cytoplasm at approximately 8 to 12

h after infection (

15

,

52

). Therefore, we wondered if WDR11

might in fact be a TGN component, becoming redistributed upon

the dispersal of the TGN during HSV infection. To investigate

this, we examined the localization of WDR11 relative to the TGN

marker TGN46 via immunofluorescence. In uninfected cells (

Fig.

4A

), the two proteins showed strong colocalization, suggesting

that WDR11 does in fact reside in the TGN. During 17 syn

infec-tion (

Fig. 4B

), the relocation of WDR11 mirrored the dispersal of

TGN46, although the two proteins did not maintain their

colocal-ization upon breakdown of the TGN. This demonstrated, for the

first time, that WDR11 is a TGN component. To further confirm

this observation, we next treated the cells with brefeldin A (BFA),

which causes the collapse of TGN membranes (

55

), and we found

that this treatment also caused the relocalization of WDR11 into

distinctive perinuclear spots that continued to colocalize with

TGN46 (

Fig. 4C

), verifying that WDR11 resides in the TGN. We

also observed strong colocalization of WDR11 and gE at early

times postinfection, when gE has been previously shown to

local-ize to the TGN (

54

), but not at later times, when gE moves to

cell-cell junctions (data not shown).

WDR11 interacts with specific additional HSV-1 proteins.

Although WDR11 is neither relocated nor degraded by ICP0, the

strong interaction between these two proteins suggests that

FIG 3WDR11 relocalization is specific to HSV infection and requires viral late gene expression. (A) HEL cells were infected with 17 syn (10 PFU/cell), HCMV (0.5 PFU/cell), SeV (80 HAU/106cells), or VSV (0.1 PFU/cell) or

treated with 100␮g/ml pI·C for 16 h. Infected cells were then fixed and ana-lyzed for WDR11 localization via immunofluorescence. (B) HEL cells were mock treated or infected with 17 syn at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h in the presence or absence of 400␮g/ml PAA and then analyzed for WDR11 localization and gC expression via immunofluorescence. Nuclei were identified using Hoechst stain.

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WDR11 may have a role in HSV-1 replication. To begin to

exam-ine this further, we investigated whether additional viral proteins

interacted with WDR11 via co-IP in HEL cells (

Fig. 5A

).

Intrigu-ingly, WDR11 was found to bind to gB, VP16, and VP5 in addition

to ICP0, but not to ICP4, ICP27, gC, or gE, suggesting that it

interacts specifically with some, but not all, HSV-1 proteins.

How-ever, it was possible that the proteins not detected after WDR11 IP

are simply expressed at lower levels than the interacting proteins.

To rule out this possibility, we repeated this experiment in U2OS

cells (

Fig. 5B

), which allow very high levels of expression of viral

proteins. As these cells permit efficient replication of dl1403, we

also determined whether ICP0 was required for the interaction of

the various viral proteins with WDR11. A similar pattern was

ob-served after WDR11 IP with U2OS cells compared to HEL cells,

with the exception of ICP27, which was now observed to interact

with WDR11. However, despite abundant expression, neither

gC, gE, nor ICP4 was found in the eluents, confirming our

observations that WDR11 interacts only with specific viral

pro-teins. Interestingly, there was no change in the proteins found

to interact with WDR11 in the presence or absence of ICP0. It

is important to note that no gC expression was detected after

infection with dl1403, consistent with the recent observation

that this virus contains an unintentional secondary mutation

disrupting the gC gene (

56

).

FIG 4WDR11 colocalizes with the TGN marker TGN46. HEL cells were mock treated (A), infected with 17 syn at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h (B), or treated with 10 ␮g/ml BFA or the vehicle control for 30 min (C) and then fixed and analyzed for TGN46 and WDR11 localization via immunofluorescence.

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Since ICP0 expression is not necessary for ICP27, gB, VP16, or

VP5 to bind to WDR11, we were interested in determining

whether ICP0 itself requires another viral protein to bridge its

interaction with WDR11. To investigate this, we performed the

WDR11 IPs in U2OS cells transfected with pCI-D8 (

57

), which

encodes a mutant form of ICP0 lacking its nuclear localization

signal, as exogenous wild-type ICP0 expressed in the absence of

other viral proteins is restricted to the nucleus (

26

,

58

), where it

may not have access to WDR11. Interestingly, we found that ICP0

is capable of interacting with WDR11 in the absence of all other

viral proteins, demonstrating that while ICP0 is sufficient to bind

to WDR11, it is not necessary for the binding of the other viral

proteins, suggesting that multiple independent interactions occur

between WDR11 and HSV-1 virion components.

WDR11 depletion reduces viral yields without decreasing

vi-ral gene expression.

To further investigate the potential role of

WDR11 in HSV-1 replication, we used siRNA to deplete WDR11,

using U2OS cells to permit a comparison of the effect of WDR11

knockdown on the growth of both 17 syn and dl1403. Cells

de-pleted of WDR11 remained healthy, showing no changes in

mor-phology or growth rate (data not shown). While siRNA treatment

reduced WDR11 levels in U2OS cells, depletion was not complete,

which was particularly evident in infected cells (

Fig. 6A

). We next

examined the expression of IE (ICP27), E (ICP8), and L (gC)

proteins after infection with 17 syn in control cells and WDR11

siRNA-treated cells (

Fig. 6C

). No detectable change in the levels of

any of these proteins was observed after depletion of WDR11,

suggesting that any possible function of this protein in the viral

replication cycle is downstream of virus entry and gene

expres-sion. We also did not observe any change in the localization of

ICP0, ICP4, gB, gC, gE, VP5, or VP16 via immunofluorescence in

cells treated with WDR11 siRNA compared to the control-treated

cells after 10 h of infection with 17 syn (data not shown),

suggest-ing that WDR11 is not involved in directsuggest-ing the intracellular

tar-geting of viral proteins.

To investigate this further, cells treated with control or WDR11

siRNA were subsequently infected with either 17 syn or dl1403,

and cell-associated or secreted virus was separately quantified

af-ter 24 h (

Fig. 6B

). Interestingly, reducing WDR11 levels caused a

modest but reproducible decrease in both supernatant and

cell-associated virus, equally for 17 syn and dl1403. No such decrease

in titer was observed for VSV (data not shown), demonstrating

that the loss of WDR11 specifically impacts HSV replication and

does not result from nonspecific effects on cell health or density.

Therefore, WDR11 appears to promote HSV replication in an

ICP0-independent manner. Since the equal decrease in both

se-creted and cell-associated virus appears to rule out a function for

WDR11 in egress itself, these data, taken together, suggest a

po-tential role for WDR11 in viral assembly.

DISCUSSION

Currently, the function of the cellular protein WDR11 remains

unclear. A clue to its possible role is that it contains a series of

loosely conserved motifs known as WD repeat domains, making it

a member of the WD repeat family of proteins. These repeats fold

to form a propeller-like arrangement, with each WD repeat

result-ing in a blade in a circular structure (

59–61

). Despite their shared

sequence motif and structure, WD repeat proteins have a great

deal of functional diversity, and the WD repeats themselves do not

exhibit any catalytic activity (

62

). Instead, the common function

of members of the WD repeat family seems to be the coordination

of multiprotein complexes, with the propeller structure providing

a stable scaffold for several simultaneous protein-protein

interac-tions (

62

,

63

). Indeed, WDR11 has been suggested to bind to

mul-tiple proteins, including STAT3 (

64

), EMX1, Tagln2, Ndrg4,

Nrxn3, and Hey1 (

35

), C17orf75 (

39

), and UBXD7 (

65

), although

the significance of these interactions requires further study.

In this work, we identified WDR11 as a novel binding partner

for ICP0. At first glance, this interaction is particularly intriguing,

because it does not result in the loss of the WDR11 protein.

Tra-ditionally, it was thought that proteins binding to ICP0 are

tar-geted for proteasome-mediated degradation (

66–79

). However,

several binding partners have been identified that are not directed

to the proteasome by ICP0 (

27

,

80–88

). This is consistent with our

recent observation that ICP0 has two distinct cytoplasmic

func-tions, neither of which involve protein degradation; first, it blocks

FIG 5Interaction of specific additional HSV proteins with WDR11. (A and B) HEL cells (A) or U2OS cells (B) were mock treated or infected with the indicated viruses at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h. (C) U2OS cells were transfected with either the empty vector (EV) or a plasmid carrying a mutant ICP0 expressed in the cytoplasm (D8) for 24 h. In all three cases, cytoplasmic extracts were then harvested, immunoprecipitations were performed with an anti-WDR11 antibody, and eluents were analyzed via Western blotting with the indicated antibodies.

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antiviral signaling via a mechanism that requires the RING finger

but not the proteasome, and second, that it promotes viral

repli-cation in a RING-independent manner (

33

). The exact

mecha-nisms behind the nondegradative effects of ICP0 remain to be

fully characterized.

Although ICP0 interacts strongly with WDR11, its relocation

during HSV infection is not dependent on ICP0. Instead, WDR11

relocalization correlates with efficient viral replication. This

find-ing is analogous to what has been observed with cyclin D3 and

IFI16, ICP0-binding proteins that were initially reported to be

stabilized or degraded, respectively, in an ICP0-dependent

man-ner (

78

,

80

). However, when conditions were adjusted to equalize

replication of the ICP0-null and wild-type viruses, the alleged

“ICP0-mediated” effects were observed to occur in the absence of

ICP0 (

89

,

90

). This highlights the importance of considering viral

replication levels during ICP0-null infection.

Here, we have shown for the first time that WDR11 is a

TGN-resident protein and that its redistribution is a result of the

virus-induced fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus and TGN (

8

,

15

,

51–54

). Previous descriptions of WDR11 localization have been

variable. Endogenous WDR11 in neuroblasts was reported to be

cytoplasmic, although the precise subcellular distribution was not

determined (

35

), while exogenous, GFP-tagged WDR11 was

shown to have either a diffuse cytoplasmic distribution in U2OS

cells (

35

) or a punctate perinuclear localization in HeLa cells

which partially colocalized with the autophagosome marker LC3

(

39

). LC3 can associate with the TGN membrane during

au-tophagy (

91

), consistent with our observations. It is currently

un-known whether the dispersal of the Golgi apparatus and TGN is a

specific effect of HSV late proteins to promote egress (

52

) or

sim-ply a by-product of envelopment (

92

), as neither inhibiting nor

augmenting the fragmentation of the Golgi apparatus impacts

HSV replication in cell culture (

51

). Similarly, we observed that

late gene expression is required for WDR11 dispersal, although

whether this is a direct or indirect effect is unclear. Regardless, our

observed relocalization of WDR11 with similar kinetics to the

dis-persal of TGN46 further substantiated the idea that WDR11 is a

TGN component, as did our observation that disruption of the

TGN with BFA also caused the relocation of WDR11.

Collectively, our data suggest that HSV recruits WDR11 for

optimal assembly or secondary envelopment, in an

ICP0-inde-pendent manner. Although the effect of WDR11 depletion of virus

production was modest, the knockdown of WDR11 was not

com-plete. Moreover, observations in cultured cells do not always

re-flect the biological outcome in an animal. For example, although

HSV-1 lacking the virion host shutoff protein vhs replicates to

wild-type levels in cultured cells, it is highly attenuated in mice

(

93

). Similarly, depletion of STAT1 does not affect HSV-1

repli-cation in culture (

94

), but it renders mice highly susceptible to

infection

in vivo

(

95–100

). Furthermore, high levels of WDR11 are

found in the brains of embryonic and adult mice (

35

), and

disrup-tions to WDR11 are associated with IHH/KS/CPHD (

35

,

38

),

con-ditions that result from abnormal migration of specific neurons

during embryogenesis (reviewed in reference

101

). Additionally,

WDR11 interacts with dysbindin, a neuronal protein enriched in

synapses (

102

), as well as EMX1 (

35

), a protein with important

functions in the developing nervous system (reviewed in reference

103

). Therefore, it is possible that the function of WDR11 may be

more crucial for viral replication

in vivo

in neurons as opposed to

cells of the periphery. Indeed, the pathway to assembly and egress

in neurons is thought to require specialized adaptations, as a result

of the long distances between the cell body and the axon termini

over which HSV virions must be transported (reviewed in

refer-ence

104

). Unfortunately, the current lack of a WDR11 knockout

mouse, potentially due to embryonic lethality (

35

), precludes

di-rectly addressing the

in vivo

relevance.

FIG 6WDR11 depletion reduces yields of both cell-associated and secreted HSV-1 without decreasing viral gene expression. U2OS cells were treated with WDR11 or nontargeting control siRNA for 72 h. (A) Cells on coverslips were infected with 17 syn at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h and then fixed and analyzed for WDR11 levels via immunofluorescence. Nuclei were identified using Hoechst stain. (B) Cells were infected with 17 syn at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h, and then RIPA extracts were harvested and analyzed for the expression of the indicated pro-teins via Western blotting. (C) Cells were infected with the indicated viruses at 10 PFU/cell for 24 h. Cells and supernatant medium were then harvested separately, the cell-associated fraction was freeze-thawed three times, and then titers in both fractions were determined on U2OS cells in the presence of HMBA. The data are averages of 3 independent replicates⫾standard errors of the means. Statistical analysis was performed using one-way analysis of vari-ance and Bonferroni’s multiple-comparison posttest. *,P⬍0.05; **,P⬍0.01; ***,P⬍0.001.

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Perhaps the most intriguing of our observations is that WDR11

not only interacts with ICP0 but also with specific viral proteins,

including gB, VP16, and VP5, but not ICP4, gC, or gE. It is

well-known that virion components form an intricate meshwork, with

tegument proteins binding to one another as well as to the

cyto-plasmic tails of envelope glycoproteins on one side and the capsid

proteins on the other (reviewed in reference

6

). The specificity of

WDR11 binding suggests that it selectively targets particular viral

proteins and that our results cannot simply be explained by the

complex protein-protein interactions among virion components.

The basis for this selectivity is currently unclear. For example,

both ICP0 (

105

) and ICP4 (

106

) are tegument components, and

indeed, these two proteins have been found to interact directly

(

107

), but only ICP0 binds WDR11. Similarly, both gC and gB are

major virion glycoproteins (

108

), and yet only gB interacts with

WDR11. Like gC, minor virion component gE does not bind

WDR11, despite its early localization to the TGN (

54

,

109

). VP16

is a major tegument component (

108

), and interestingly, it has

been shown to associate with gB but not gC (

110

). The interaction

of WDR11 with major capsid protein VP5 is intriguing, as it

sug-gests that WDR11 not only binds specific tegument and envelope

proteins but also the capsid itself. Since VP5 is a component of the

outer shell of the capsid and has been shown to be accessible for

interactions with tegument components (

111–115

), it may also be

available for binding to WDR11. ICP27 has been reported to be

packaged in virions grown on BHK cells (

116

), and not those

grown on Vero cells (

105

,

117

), suggesting that the incorporation

of this protein may be cell type dependent, consistent with our

observations that ICP27 interacts with WDR11 in U2OS but not

HEL cells. Our results also fit with reports that gC and gB are

independently incorporated into the virion (

118

), and likewise

that ICP4 is packaged independently of ICP0 (

119

). However,

further study is clearly necessary to determine the basis for the

ability of WDR11 to discriminate between specific viral proteins.

Given that WDR11 both localizes to the TGN, a major site of

secondary envelopment (

8

,

9

,

13–17

), and specifically interacts

with several HSV virion components, and further that it is a

mem-ber of a protein family involved in coordinating multiple

simulta-neous protein-protein interactions, we propose that this protein

plays a role in HSV morphogenesis. Although WDR11 has not

been found to be among the known cellular proteins incorporated

into mature HSV virions (

120

), our hypothesis is supported by

our observations that WDR11 depletion decreases viral yields

without affecting viral gene expression, while the fact that both

secreted and cell-associated viruses were reduced after WDR11

knockdown suggests that this protein could be functioning in

re-envelopment as opposed to egress. Although the exact mechanism

is not yet clear, secondary envelopment is thought to be driven by

a complex series of protein-protein interactions between

glyco-proteins associated with the TGN membrane, tegument

compo-nents, and capsid proteins (

10

,

121–144

)—a process that could be

coordinated through the actions of WDR11. However,

transmis-sion electron microscopy (TEM) did not reveal any striking

dif-ferences in virion morphogenesis after 17 syn infection of cells

treated with either control or WDR11 siRNA (data not shown).

Although this could indicate that WDR11 is not involved in viral

assembly, it is more likely that TEM, while useful for identifying

gross defects in secondary envelopment or egress, is not

appropri-ate for detecting the subtle differences expected given the modest

decrease in the viral titer observed in the cells depleted of WDR11.

The role of cellular proteins in the reenvelopment process

re-mains poorly characterized. The ESCRT (endosomal sorting

com-plex required for transport) machinery, which has a multitude of

roles in processes involving membrane curvature and fission

(re-viewed in reference

145

), has been implicated in HSV

envelop-ment, with Vps24/CHMP3 (

10

) and Vps4 (

10

,

11

) suggested to

perform the physical budding step. Moreover, inhibiting the

ESCRT-III complex has also been reported to block secondary

envelopment (

146

). In addition, several Rab GTPases have been

implicated in HSV reenvelopment. Depletion of Rab1 and Rab43

results in decreased viral assembly, although this may be partially

explained by indirect effects, such as decreased processing of

gly-coproteins and their impaired transport to the TGN in the absence

of Rab1 and extensive disruption to the TGN structure upon

de-pletion of Rab43 (

147

). Similar to what we observed with WDR11,

Rab27a, which is involved in exocytosis and membrane trafficking

(

148

), has been found to colocalize with HSV proteins at the TGN

and increase viral yields and has therefore been suggested to play a

role in HSV morphogenesis and/or egress (

149

).

Altogether, this work identifies WDR11 as a TGN resident

pro-tein that interacts specifically with certain HSV-1 virion

compo-nents to augment viral yields, leading us to propose that this

pro-tein plays a role in viral assembly and/or secondary envelopment.

Although further study is necessary to confirm this hypothesis,

this work provides new insights into both the function of a poorly

characterized cellular protein as well as the incompletely

under-stood mechanism of HSV-1 secondary envelopment.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work is supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant MOP-57669. K.T. was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engi-neering Research Council (NSERC) Alexander Graham Bell Canada grad-uate doctoral scholarship.

We thank P. Ezzati and K. Coombs for technical and intellectual con-tributions.

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Figure

FIG 1 ICP0 interacts with WDR11 but does not cause its degradation. (A)HEL cells were infected with the indicated viruses at 10 PFU/cell for 8 h, andthen samples were harvested via cytoplasmic extract and immunoprecipitatedwith the indicated antibodies
FIG 3 WDR11 relocalization is specific to HSV infection and requires virallate gene expression
FIG 4 WDR11 colocalizes with the TGN marker TGN46. HEL cells were mock treated (A), infected with 17 syn at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h (B), or treated with 10�g/ml BFA or the vehicle control for 30 min (C) and then fixed and analyzed for TGN46 and WDR11 localization via immunofluorescence.
FIG 5 Interaction of specific additional HSV proteins with WDR11. (A and B) HEL cells (A) or U2OS cells (B) were mock treated or infected with the indicatedviruses at 10 PFU/cell for 10 h
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