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1 Max von Pettenkofer-Institut für Virologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Pettenkoferstraße 9a, D-80336 München, Germany
2 Institut für Medizinische Virologie, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Correspondence
Ulrich Koszinowski
koszinowski{at}mvp.uni-muenchen.de
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Published online ahead of print on 31 May 2006 as DOI 10.1099/vir.0.81921-0.
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). In vivo, HCMV can infect a broad range of cell types, including endothelial cells, epithelial cells, smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts, macrophages and monocytes (Plachter et al., 1996). However, the adaptation of clinical isolates to fibroblasts results in the inability to replicate efficiently in endothelial cells or monocytes (Waldman et al., 1989; MacCormac & Grundy, 1999; Sinzger et al., 1999; Kahl et al., 2000; Grazia Revello et al., 2001) and to transfer virus from virus-infected cells to leukocytes (Grazia Revello et al., 2001; Hahn et al., 2004). The three open reading frames of the UL128–131A locus are indispensable for virus growth in endothelial, epithelial and dendritic cells (Grazia Revello et al., 2001; Hahn et al., 2004; Gerna et al., 2005; Wang & Shenk, 2005a). All non-endotheliotropic laboratory strains tested show mutations in the UL128–131A locus affecting at least one of the genes (Akter et al., 2003; Hahn et al., 2004). Thus, an intact/wild-type UL128–131A locus is essential for infection of most of the host cells of HCMV, the major exception being fibroblasts.
It has been claimed that HCMV enters fibroblasts by fusion at the cell membrane (Compton et al., 1992), and epithelial and endothelial cells by endocytosis (Bodaghi et al., 1999; Ryckman et al., 2006). Endothelial cell entry of HCMV laboratory strains is apparently blocked at a post-entry step before transfer of the DNA to the nucleus (Sinzger et al., 2000). As the entry block can be released by reversion of mutations in the UL128–131A locus, a role of these proteins in the entry process can be assumed (Hahn et al., 2004; Wang & Shenk, 2005a). UL128–131A genes are transcribed with late kinetics (Akter et al., 2003). As all three proteins are necessary for the capacity of HCMV to infect endothelial cells, it is likely that they interact functionally or even physically. pUL128 and pUL130 have recently been reported to be virion constituents (Patrone et al., 2005; Wang & Shenk, 2005b) and to form a complex with the viral envelope proteins gH and gL (Wang & Shenk, 2005b). The UL131A gene product has not been studied so far.
Here, we studied the role of pUL131A in infection of fibroblasts and endothelial cells. UL131A encodes a 129 aa long protein with no obvious sequence similarity to known proteins. The non-endotheliotropic HCMV strain AD169 encodes a truncated pUL131A. Repair of the defective UL131A gene in AD169 reconstitutes endothelial cell tropism (Hahn et al., 2004; Wang & Shenk, 2005a). To study pUL131A, we cis-complemented the bacterial artificial chromosome BAC-AD169 genome by insertion of the wild-type UL131A gene or a haemagglutinin (HA)-tagged construct at an ectopic position. The complementation reconstituted the endothelial cell tropism, but negatively influenced virus spread in fibroblast cultures. pUL131A was detected in lysates of purified virions and was found to form a complex with gH. Endothelial cell infection was blocked selectively by pUL131A antiserum. Taken together, our data imply that pUL131A plays a dual role in HCMV infection, namely in cell-specific entry and in exit from infected cells.
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) were maintained in an EGM-2 MV BulletKit medium system (Cambrex).
The HCMV strain AD169 (Borst et al., 1999) and the endotheliotropic HCMV isolate VR1814 (Hahn et al., 2002) have been cloned as BACs (BAC-AD169 and BAC-VR1814). Viruses reconstituted from BACs (V-AD169 and V-VR1814) retain the parental cell tropism.
Virus stocks were prepared from supernatants of infected HFFs when a marked cytopathic effect (CPE) was seen. Supernatants were cleared of cellular debris by centrifugation for 10 min at 3500 g and either they were stored directly at –80 °C or virus was pelleted at 23 450 g for 3 h at 4 °C. Cell-associated virus was harvested by using cell douncers to disrupt infected cells. Virus titres were determined by TCID50 assays on HFFs in 96-well plates. Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-expressing virus was titrated in the presence of 1 µg doxycycline ml–1 and only green plaques were counted.
To infect cells, the medium was removed from 90 % confluent cell monolayers and replaced by virus diluted in medium for 2 h. For some experiments, virus uptake was enhanced by a centrifugation step (30 min, 2000 g at room temperature). For co-culture infections, HCMV-infected HFFs or TIME cells showing complete CPE were mixed at 10-fold dilutions with uninfected HFFs or TIME cells. Infections were screened either by indirect immunofluorescence staining for HCMV immediate-early protein or by inspection for GFP-positive cells after induction with 1 µg doxycycline ml–1.
To block infection, infected cells or virus stocks were preincubated with a 1 : 20 dilution of anti-pUL131A rabbit antiserum or preimmune serum. Preincubation was performed in a 100 µl volume for 1 h at 4 °C. The antigen specificity of the block was tested by depletion of the antiserum with 15 µg KLH-coupled peptides, either one specific for pUL131A (CDFRRQNRRGGTNKR) or an irrelevant control peptide (VALRCPDGEVCYSPE).
Gradient purification of HCMV virions.
For gradient purification of HCMV virions, infectious supernatants from infected HFF cultures showing approximately 100 % late-stage CPE were cleared from cell debris by centrifugation for 10 min at 2800 g. Supernatants were then ultracentrifuged for 70 min at 80 000 g. Pellets containing virions were resuspended in 1 ml PBS and transferred onto a preformed, linear glycerol/tartrate gradient (15–35 % sodium tartrate and 30–0 % glycerol in 0.04 % sodium phosphate), which was ultracentrifuged for 45 min at 80 000 g. The virion-containing band was harvested with a syringe and the virions were washed and pelleted by an additional ultracentrifugation for 70 min at 80 000 g. The pellet was resuspended in 0.04 % sodium phosphate and stored at –80 °C until used for experiments.
Plasmids.
The UL131A reading frame was amplified by PCR from cDNA generated from total RNA of VR1814-infected HFFs by using oligo(dT)18–22 primers (Invitrogen). UL131A was amplified as an untagged sequence (UL131Afor, 5'-GCGCGAATTCATGCGGCTGTGTCGGGTGTGGCTG-3'; UL131Arev, 5'-AGTCAGATCTCTAGTTGGCAAAGAGTCGCACGC-3') or as a C-terminally HA-tagged sequence (UL131Afor; UL131ArevHA, 5'-AGTCAGATCTCTAAGCGTAGTCTGGGACGTCGTATGGGTAGTTGGCAAAGAGTCGCACGC-3'). The PCR products were cloned into the EcoRI/BglII sites of pSG5 (Stratagene) to be expressed under the control of the simian virus 40 (SV40) promoter. For ectopic expression of UL131A proteins, SalI fragments of pSG5 containing the complete SV40–UL131A expression cassette were filled in by Klenow polymerase and cloned into the EcoRV site of pOriR6K-zeo (Bubeck et al., 2004). Inducible GFP was inserted into the pHB5/FRT BAC from pO6-SVT-gfp-TR (Rupp et al., 2005).
BAC mutagenesis.
For insertion of a 48 bp FRT site into the UL45 locus, a linear PCR fragment containing a kanamycin-resistance gene flanked by two 48 bp FRT sites and sequences homologous to the HCMV UL45 coding region (Hahn et al., 2002) was generated with primers UL45-FRT-Kanfor (5'-GCCAGTGGTACCACTTGAGCATCCTGGCCAGAAGCACGTCGGGCGTCATCCCCGAGTCATAGTAGCGGGGGTGTCCAGGGTTTTCCC-3') and UL45-FRT-Kanrev (5'-ACACATCGCACACAGACTTTATAAACCGTAGTTGTCGGCGCCATCTAGACTCACTTTATTGAAACTTCCGGCTCGTATGTTGTGTGG-3') and pCP15 as template (Cherepanov & Wackernagel, 1995). The resulting fragment was inserted into BAC-AD169 and BAC-VR1814 by homologous recombination in Escherichia coli, thereby deleting 2.7 kb of the UL45 locus as described previously (Hahn et al., 2002; Wagner et al., 2002). The kanamycin-resistance gene was subsequently excised by FLP-mediated site-directed recombination (Bubi
et al., 2004).
SV40-driven UL131A with or without a HA tag cloned in pOriR6K-zeo was inserted into the FRT sites by using the pOriR6K-zeo vector and the temperature-sensitive FLP expression plasmid pCP20 (Bubeck et al., 2004). To introduce an inducible GFP, the construct pO6-SVT-gfp-TR was used (Rupp et al., 2005).
Insertions/deletions were controlled by restriction-pattern analysis, followed by Southern blot analysis using a UL45 PCR product amplified from a pHB5 BAC plasmid (UL45for, 5'-GGCCGTGCACGCAGGCCGAG-3'; UL45rev, 5'-TGCTCGAGTTCGGATTGCGC-3') to detect restriction fragments with UL45 sequences. The UL131A SalI fragment from the pSG5 construct was used to detect restriction fragments containing the UL131A expression cassette.
Reconstitution of virus from recombinant BACs.
BAC plasmids were reconstituted to virus by transfection of BAC DNA into HFFs with an MBS transfection kit (Stratagene) following the instructions of the manufacturer. Circular viral DNA was isolated by the method of Hirt (1967) as described previously (Messerle et al., 1997).
Antibodies and antisera.
HCMV-specific mAbs used were mouse anti-pp65 antibody (MAB8770; Chemicon), mouse anti-immediate-early protein 1 antibody (anti-ie1; Perkin Elmer), mouse anti-gB antibody (2F12; Abcam) and mouse anti-gH antibody (AP86, kindly provided by W. Britt, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA). HA-tagged protein was detected by using a rat anti-HA antibody (3F10; Roche Diagnostics). Fc receptors were blocked by preincubation of the cells with FcR-blocking reagent (1 : 20) (Miltenyi Biotec).
To generate a pUL131A-specific antiserum, rabbits were immunized with two pUL131A peptides (CDFRRQNRRGGTNKRT and CSRALPDQTRYKYVEQ; Eurogentec). Antibodies were purified by affinity columns coupled with the peptides used for immunization (Eurogentec).
Immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis.
Cells or purified virions were lysed in RIPA buffer [50 mM Tris (pH 7.4), 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1 % Nonidet P-40, 0.1 % SDS, 0.5 % deoxycholate] containing a protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche Diagnostics). Comparable protein amounts were subjected to immunoprecipitation by using the rabbit anti-pUL131A antiserum and protein G–Sepharose (Amersham Biosciences) for precipitation of protein–antibody complexes. For Western blot analysis, precipitates, cell pellets or purified virions were lysed in sample buffer [0.13 M Tris/HCl (pH 6.8), 6 % SDS, 10 % 
-thioglycerol], separated on 10 or 15 % polyacrylamide gels and transferred onto nylon Hybond-P membranes (Amersham Biosciences). Membranes were blocked with 5 % low-fat milk in PBS, incubated with the respective primary antibodies and detected by using peroxidase-coupled secondary antibodies and enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL system; Amersham Biosciences).
Indirect immunofluorescence staining.
HCMV-infected cells were detected by staining for immediate-early protein 1 (ie1) of HCMV. Cells were fixed in 50 % acetone/50 % methanol, incubated with an anti-ie1 antibody for 45 min and detected with Cy3-coupled goat anti-mouse antibody (Dianova).
For confocal laser-scanning microscopy, cells were seeded on glass coverslips, fixed with 4 % paraformaldehyde and permeabilized with 0.1 % Triton X-100. To block Fc receptors expressed in HCMV-infected cells, cells were preincubated with an FcR block for 30 min and then stained with affinity-purified anti-pUL131A and anti-pp65 antibodies and detected with Fluor488-coupled goat anti-rabbit antibody (Molecular Probes) and Texas red-coupled goat anti-mouse antibody (Dianova), respectively. Stained cells were mounted in Vectashield (Vector Laboratories) and analysed by using a Zeiss Axiovert 200M microscope and the Zeiss LSM510 Meta laser system.
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) served for the integration of the wild-type UL131A gene. The gene cassette contained the 129 aa long UL131A reading frame from the HCMV isolate VR1814 (Grazia Revello et al., 2001) or a C-terminally HA-tagged version under the control of the SV40 promoter (Fig. 1a). The gene cassettes were inserted into BAC-AD169 and also into BAC-VR1814, which carries a functional UL131A. The latter BAC thus carries two copies of UL131A, which permit controls for phenotypic changes due to positional effects or due to SV40 promoter control. Insertion at the UL45 locus was confirmed by restriction analysis of the BACs followed by Southern blots. In EcoRI digests, the 3.4 kbp EcoRI fragment specific for UL45 in BAC-AD169 and BAC-VR1814 was lost in the FRT BACs and the BACs carrying the ectopic UL131A (Fig. 1b) and a new fragment of 0.7 kbp, representing a UL45 residual sequence, appeared. A fragment of 1.4 kbp revealed the UL131A expression cassette in addition to the EcoRI fragments carrying the endogenous UL131A sequence (3.3 kbp for BAC-AD169 and 12.7 kbp for BAC-VR1814) (Fig. 1c). The genotype of viruses reconstituted from BACs was confirmed by restriction analysis of viral DNA and Southern blot (Fig. 1d).
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; Gerna et al., 2002; Hahn et al., 2004). Endothelial cell tropism is revealed by co-culture experiments in which infected fibroblasts are mixed with uninfected endothelial cells and the spread of infection from fibroblasts to the neighbouring uninfected cells is monitored. Non-endotheliotropic strains fail to infect endothelial cells in co-culture experiments. We used the microvascular cell line TIME as endothelial host cells (Venetsanakos et al., 2002). TIME cells offer two advantages. First, they can be cultured continuously and are thus more convenient to handle than primary human umbilical cord-derived HUVECs, and second, due to the small size, the microvascular cells can be distinguished easily by optical inspection from fibroblasts in co-culture experiments (data not shown). cis-Complementation with wild-type UL131A restored the endothelial cell tropism of AD169. In co-culture experiments, V-AD169/UL131A or V-AD169/UL131A/HA spread from infected HFFs to TIME cells, whereas the parental virus V-AD169/FRT did not spread (Fig. 2a). The endotheliotropic control viruses V-VR1814/FRT and V-VR1814/UL131A showed a comparable pattern of spreading (Fig. 2a). The presence of pUL131A in V-AD169/UL131A or V-AD169/UL131A/HA led to an only about fivefold increase in the efficiency of infection of TIME cells by free virus (Table 1). Even an m.o.i. of 5 was insufficient to infect all TIME cells in a culture.
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). Infected foci were detected by staining for HCMV pp65 tegument protein, which showed the typical nuclear staining early after infection and a cytoplasmic staining at later times of infection (Sanchez et al., 2000). There was no pUL131A-specific staining in foci of V-AD169/FRT-infected cells, whereas foci of V-AD169/UL131A- and V-AD169/UL131A/HA-infected cells were strongly positive for pUL131A. Expression of endogenous pUL131A in V-VR1814/FRT-infected cells was very weak, whereas V-VR1814/UL131A-infected cells showed a pattern comparable to that of V-AD169/UL131A-infected cells. Endogenous pUL131A in V-VR1814/FRT-infected cells was detectable only at late time points after infection, which is in accordance with the kinetics of UL131A RNA expression (Akter et al., 2003). Remarkably, expression of the SV40-driven pUL131A also followed late kinetics (data not shown).
UL131A expression impairs virus release from fibroblasts
After infection of HFFs with V-AD169/UL131A and V-AD169/FRT at a low m.o.i., the titres of cell-associated virus were comparable (Fig. 3a). However, V-AD169/UL131A showed a significant delay in the release of free virus into the supernatant when compared with V-AD169/FRT (Fig. 3a). V-VR1814/UL131A showed the same phenotype. This difference was most apparent 5 days after infection when cell monolayers were still intact. The number of HCMV immediate-early protein-positive nuclei was comparable 24 h after infection, indicating that the infection rate of fibroblasts was not affected by the UL131A copy (data not shown). We explain the slightly higher titres of cell-associated virus of V-AD169/FRT compared with V-AD169/UL131A by virus spread via the supernatant. In contrast, virus production in endothelial cells was not affected by ectopic expression of UL131A (Fig. 3a). We also compared virus productivity of the endotheliotropic viruses V-VR1814/FRT and V-VR1814/UL131A in HFFs and TIME cells. After infection with V-VR1814/UL131A at a low m.o.i., a significant reduction of supernatant virus was observed in fibroblasts (Fig. 3b). No difference in virus production was seen in TIME cells and when HFFs were infected with a high m.o.i. (Fig. 3b). The time point 10 days after infection was chosen because virus titres in supernatants of TIME cells were very low at earlier time points of infection (Fig. 3a). Altogether, ectopic expression of pUL131A delayed and reduced virus production in HFFs and supported cell-associated virus spread, leading to the formation of small foci rather than to an even distribution of the infection throughout the cell culture (Fig. 3c).
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). As expected, the addition of the HA tag shifted the size of the bands to higher molecular masses. The UL131A reading frame encodes a 129 aa long protein with an amino-terminal signal peptide of 18 aa. The three bands may reflect pUL131A proteins with and without signal peptide and/or other protein modifications. Remarkably, the fastest-migrating band of pUL131A/HA was also present in extracts from purified virions. The anti-pUL131A antiserum was less sensitive than the anti-HA antibody; therefore, it was not possible to detect the untagged protein in lysates of virions. The purity of the virion preparation was documented by the presence of the virion envelope protein gB and the absence of the abundant, but non-structural, 72 kDa immediate-early protein of HCMV (Fig. 4a). The anti-pUL131A antiserum precipitated gH from lysates of HFFs infected with V-AD169/UL131A or V-AD169/UL131A/HA (Fig. 4b) or from lysates of purified virions (Fig. 4c). Lysates of V-AD169/FRT-infected cells, which are negative for pUL131A, or lysates of virions derived from these cells showed no gH precipitation with the anti-pUL131A antiserum. We concluded that pUL131A forms a complex with the envelope glycoprotein gH and that this complex is incorporated into virions.
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). A comparison of the infection efficiency of the individual viruses V-AD169/gfp and V-AD169/UL131A showed a fivefold-better infection efficiency for the virus expressing pUL131A (Table 1). Thus, both genetic complementation by ectopic expression and pUL131A protein pseudotyping after mixed infections result in a comparable rescue of endothelial cell infection. No increase in the number of GFP-positive TIME cells was observed when V-AD169/gfp and V-AD169/UL131A virus stocks were mixed and given directly to TIME cells (data not shown). Recombination could result in stably GFP- and UL131A-positive viruses. One thousand GFP-positive TIME cells were screened microscopically over 10 days. Only single GFP-positive cells, but no GFP-positive plaques, could be detected. Thus, the phenotype only lasted for a single round of infection and was due to protein complementation (data not shown). Notably, when supernatants from mixed infections were preincubated with antiserum to pUL131A, the infection of endothelial cells was blocked (Table 2). There was no inhibition after preincubation with preimmune serum and, also, the basal infection capacity of pUL131A-negative virions (V-AD169/gfp) was not affected (Table 2). We concluded from these data that pUL131A is a virion constituent and contributes directly to endothelial cell infection.
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). In contrast, the infection of TIME cells by supernatant virus or by co-culture with infected HFFs was blocked (Fig. 5a). Preincubation of the immune serum with the KLH-coupled pUL131A peptide used for immunization lifted the inhibition, whereas a control peptide had no effect (Fig. 5c). This inhibition was not restricted to TIME cells, as infection of HUVECs was also blocked (data not shown). Preincubation of cells with anti-pUL131A rabbit antiserum had no effect, which excluded an effect on putative cellular receptors for HCMV (data not shown). Therefore, pUL131A contributes selectively and directly to infection of endothelial cells.
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HCMV infection of endothelial, dendritic and epithelial cells depends on three viral genes, UL128, UL130 and UL131A (Hahn et al., 2004; Gerna et al., 2005). Deletion or mutation of one, two or all three genes is found consistently in fibroblast-adapted strains. Recently, the functions of the three individual genes were studied. The endothelial cell tropism of a UL130-negative HCMV strain could be trans-complemented in pUL130-expressing cells, which produced a genotypically UL130-negative, phenotypically endotheliotropic virus. The UL130 protein was found in virions of the endotheliotropic isolate VR1814 (Patrone et al., 2005). Wang & Shenk (2005a) corrected the single nucleotide insertion in UL131A of AD169. The phenotype of the corrected virus was compromised virus replication in fibroblasts and the rescue of virus growth in endothelial and epithelial cells. In another study, Wang & Shenk (2005b) analysed the virion composition and detected the UL128 and UL130 gene products in a complex with gH and gL. Antibodies to pUL128 and pUL130 blocked the infection of endothelial cells, but not of fibroblasts. Viruses lacking a functional UL131A did not contain pUL128 or pUL130 as virion components. As pUL131A was not detected in the virions of endotheliotropic viruses, pUL131A could contribute directly or indirectly to the formation of the complex between pUL128, pUL130 and gH–gL.
Here, we show that the UL131A gene product contributes by direct complex formation with gH. The UL131A protein is a virion component and the antiserum to pUL131A prevents endothelial cell infection. Most likely, all three gene products of the UL128–131A locus are involved in the entry process and it will be the subject of future studies to clarify whether entry into endothelial and epithelial cells by endocytosis is determined by these three proteins (Ryckman et al., 2006). As cell-membrane penetration by virions has also been observed in HCMV strains that have a defective UL128–131A locus (Sinzger et al., 2000), these virions are probably misdirected to an abortive entry pathway.
Associated with a UL131A-complemented gain of entry into endothelial cells is compromised growth in fibroblasts after infection with a low m.o.i. cis-Complementation under the control of the SV40 promoter resulted in an about 100-fold reduction of virus release. A similar reduction of virus release into the supernatant was also observed when the UL131A gene was repaired (Wang & Shenk, 2005a). As both repair and cis-complementation led to a virus-release deficit in fibroblasts, this is probably an inherent property of the wild-type UL131A gene product and not an artefact of the genomic construction. The V-VR1814/FRT / V-VR1814/UL131A pair, which differ only in the levels of pUL131A, provided a tool to compare infections in fibroblasts and endothelial cells. A higher level of pUL131A resulted in a reduced virus production specifically in fibroblasts. We could show that the reduced virus production was not due to a reduction in the number of infected cells, but rather to a change in the virus-release phenotype. The UL131A protein apparently redirects the virion to a more cell-associated, and therefore slower, spread. This is the reverse of what is selected for when clinical isolates are adapted for productivity in fibroblast cultures (Sinzger et al., 1999).
Virus-encoded proteins in the virion envelope define the cellular tropism of herpesviruses. At least three glycoprotein homologues, gB, gH and gL, shared by all herpesviruses, are essential for cell attachment and penetration. The gH–gL complex is complemented by additional proteins to mediate specific receptor binding (reviewed by Spear & Longnecker, 2003). Whereas herpes simplex virus requires in addition the glycoprotein gD, in Epstein–Barr virus, the presence or absence of gp42 in the gH–gL complex determines the tropism for B cells or epithelial cells, respectively (Borza & Hutt-Fletcher, 2002; Borza et al., 2004). For Human herpesvirus 6, two tripartite complexes, gH–gL–gO and gH–gL–gQ, have been described. The complex with gQ is a ligand for human CD46 (Mori et al., 2003, 2004). In HCMV, the gH–gL complex is associated with gO and, alternatively, with pUL128, pUL130 and pUL131A. Thus, the basic entry machinery is conserved among herpesviruses, but additional viral ligands modulate cell type-specific entry.
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