“…ICP0 was initially identified as an E3 Ub ligase by virtue of its ability to localize to and disrupt PML-NBs ( Everett, 2000 ; Maul et al, 1993 ; Maul and Everett, 1994 ; Everett and Maul, 1994 ; Everett et al, 1998 ; Chelbi-Alix and de The, 1999 ). PML-NBs are highly dynamic nuclear substructures composed of more than 70 proteins that respond to a variety of stimuli, including heat shock, cytokine signalling, and virus infection ( Lang et al, 2010 ; Van Damme et al, 2010 ; Hoischen et al, 2018 ; Lang et al, 2019 ; Bernardi and Pandolfi, 2007 ; Maul et al, 1995 ). Infecting HSV-1 genomes are rapidly entrapped by PML-NBs upon nuclear entry ( Alandijany et al, 2018 ; Dembowski and Deluca, 2017 ), a host response that can lead to viral genome silencing as a component of the intrinsic antiviral immune response (discussed below) ( Alandijany et al, 2018 ; Everett et al, 2006 ; Everett et al, 2008a ; Glass and Everett, 2013 ; Cabral et al, 2018 ).…”