Better late than never: A unique strategy for late gene transcription in the beta- and gammaherpesviruses
Dremel S, Didychuk A. Better late than never: A unique strategy for late gene transcription in the beta- and gammaherpesviruses. Seminars In Cell And Developmental Biology 2022, 146: 57-69. PMID: 36535877, PMCID: PMC10101908, DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.12.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsViral transcriptional activityViral preinitiation complexPol IITranscription of late genesGene transcriptionCellular RNA polymerase IITATA-binding proteinRNA polymerase IIModified TATA boxCis-acting elementsSubfamily of herpesvirusesPolymerase IITATA boxPreinitiation complexConsensus sequenceLate genesTranscriptional activityGene promoterLytic replicationGenesTemporal cascadeTranscriptionViral mimicPolPromoterA Two-tiered functional screen identifies herpesviral transcriptional modifiers and their essential domains
Morgens D, Nandakumar D, Didychuk A, Yang K, Glaunsinger B. A Two-tiered functional screen identifies herpesviral transcriptional modifiers and their essential domains. PLOS Pathogens 2022, 18: e1010236. PMID: 35041709, PMCID: PMC8797222, DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010236.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsViral DNA replicationKaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirusViral genomeDsDNA virusesLate genesDNA replicationTranscriptional activityViral sequencesViral transcriptional activityCatalytic domainIndividual mutantsSgRNA librarySarcoma-associated herpesvirusTiling screensDNA bindingDeep sequencingBase pairsFunctional screeningCut sitePooled screeningTranscriptional modifiersDNA virusesGenomeEssential domainsGene expression