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A Herpesvirus Encoded Deubiquitinase Is a Novel Neuroinvasive Determinant 1 2 2 2 1 1 Joy I. Lee , Patricia J. Sollars , Scott B. Baver , Gary E. Pickard , Mindy Leelawong , Gregory A. Smith * 1 Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America Abstract The neuroinvasive property of several alpha-herpesviruses underlies an uncommon infectious process that includes the establishment of life-long latent infections in sensory neurons of the peripheral nervous system. Several herpesvirus proteins are required for replication and dissemination within the nervous system, indicating that exploiting the nervous system as a niche for productive infection requires a specialized set of functions encoded by the virus. Whether initial entry into the nervous system from peripheral tissues also requires specialized viral functions is not known. Here we show that a conserved deubiquitinase domain embedded within a pseudorabies virus structural protein, pUL36, is essential for initial neural invasion, but is subsequently dispensable for transmission within and between neurons of the mammalian nervous system. These findings indicate that the deubiquitinase contributes to neurovirulence by participating in a previously unrecognized initial step in neuroinvasion. Citation: Lee JI, Sollars PJ, Baver SB, Pickard GE, Leelawong M, et al. (2009) A Herpesvirus Encoded Deubiquitinase Is a Novel Neuroinvasive Determinant. PLoS Pathog 5(4): e1000387. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000387 Editor: Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher, Lo