Heliothis zea nudivirus-1 (HzNV-1) is an insect virus that can induce both lytic and latent infections in various insect cell lines. During latent infection, several microRNAs (miRNAs) are produced from persistency-associated gene 1 (pag1) as the only detectable HzNV-1 transcript. Previous studies have shown that the pag1 gene suppresses the immediate-early gene hhi1 and promotes host switching into a latent infection via miRNAs derived from pag1. Although other functions of the miRNAs derived from pag1 have not yet been elucidated, several studies have suggested that miRNAs encoded from latency-associated genes can regulate histone-associated enzymes. Because pag1 is a noncoding transcript, it potentially regulates host chromatin structure through miRNAs upon infection. Nevertheless, the exact mechanism by which pag1 alters viral infections remains unknown. In this study, we found that the pag1-encoded miRNA miR-420 suppresses expression of the histone modification-associated enzyme su(var)3-9. Therefore, this miRNA causes histone modification to promote HzNV-1 infection. These results suggest that HzNV-1 may directly influence epigenetic regulation in host cells through interactions with pag1 miRNAs to promote lytic infection. This study provides us with a better understanding of both the HzNV-1 infection pathway and the relationship between viral miRNAs and epigenetic regulation.

Department of Biotechnology Southern Taiwan University of Technology Tainan 710 Taiwan

Department of Entomology National Taiwan University Taipei 106 Taiwan

Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice Czech Republic

Institute of Entomology Biology Centre CAS Ceske Budejovice Czech Republic

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