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Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2005, p. 602-611, Vol. 25, No. 2
0270-7306/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.2.602-611.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Lymphotropic Herpesvirus saimiri Uses the SMN Complex To Assemble Sm Cores on Its Small RNAs

Tracey J. Golembe, Jeongsik Yong, Daniel J. Battle, Wenqin Feng, Lili Wan, and Gideon Dreyfuss*

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Received 23 August 2004/ Returned for modification 23 September 2004/ Accepted 15 October 2004

The lymphotropic Herpesvirus saimiri (HVS) causes acute leukemia, T-cell lymphoma, and death in New World monkeys. HVS encodes seven small RNAs (HSURs) of unknown function. The HSURs acquire host Sm proteins and assemble Sm cores similar to those found on the spliceosomal small nuclear RNPs (snRNPs). Here we show that, like host snRNPs, HSURs use the SMN (survival of motor neurons) complex to assemble Sm cores. The HSURs bind the SMN complex directly and with very high affinity, similar to or higher than that of host snRNAs, and can outcompete host snRNAs for SMN-dependent assembly into RNPs. These observations highlight the general utility of the SMN complex for RNP assembly and suggest that infectious agents that engage the SMN complex may burden SMN-dependent pathways, possibly leading to a deleterious reduction in available SMN complex for essential host functions.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6148. Phone: (215) 898-0398. Fax: (215) 573-2000. E-mail: gdreyfuss{at}hhmi.upenn.edu.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, January 2005, p. 602-611, Vol. 25, No. 2
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.2.602-611.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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