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Latent HSV Infection

Published by Bcured | January 20th 2010 | Views:

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The synthesis of viral gene products (both RNA and proteins) takes place in three sequential periods. The first set of viral gene products consists of six proteins known as immediate early proteins. Of these, five regulate the reproductive cycle of the virus, and one blocks the presentation of antigenic peptides on the infected cell surfaces.

Immediate early Proteins are essential for the synthesis of the second set of viral gene products, known as early proteins. Most of the early proteins are responsible for viral nucleic acid metabolism and are the main target of antiviral chemotherapy. The third class of proteins is for the most part the structural components of the virion. They assemble to form the capsid and tegument, and they incorporate into nuclear membranes for eventual envelopment of virions.

In the process of viral assembly, a procapsid is formed from scaffolding and capsid proteins. The scaffolding proteins consist of a protease and its substrate, with the protease cleaving the substrate during capsid assembly. The newly synthesized DNA is cleaved into unit-length molecules and packaged into the virions. Generally, envelopment favors capsids containing DNA.

Capsids containing DNA attach to the nuclear surface of the inner nuclear membrane and are rapidly enveloped and released into the space between the inner and outer nuclear membranes. Here, the virions become encased in transport vesicles and are transported thrbr>In the majority of the infected neurons, the viral genome remains in an episomal state for the entire life of the individual. Reactivations occur following a variety of local or systemic stimuli such as physical or emotional stress, fever, exposure to ultraviolet light, tissue damage, and immunosuppression.

Patients treated for trigeminal neuralgia by the sectioning of a branch of the trigeminal nerve have developed herpetic lesions along the innervated areas of the sectioned branch. Reactivation of latent virus appears dependent on an intact anterior nerve route and peripheral nerve pathways. Recurrences occur in the presence of both cell-mediated and humoral immunity.

Recurrent herpes labialis is three times more frequent in febrile patients than in nonfebrile controls. Latent virus can be retrieved either unilaterally or bilaterally from the trigeminal, sacral, and vagal ganglia of humans. The recovery of virus by in vitro cultivation of trigeminal ganglia helps explain the observation that vesicles recur at the same site in humans, usually the vermilion border of the lip.

Little is known regarding the mechanisms by which the virus establishes and maintains a latent state or is reactivated. In fact, disagreements exist on the fate of neurons in which latent virus has become reactivated. Herpes infections are much more common than most people realize. Herpes cures are among the most difficult dermatological treatments to have success with.

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