Hemadsorption and fusion inhibition activities of hemagglutinin analyzed by vaccinia virus mutants

Autor: Masayasu Oie, Yasuo Ichihashi, Hisatoshi Shida, Makoto Seki
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: Virology. 175(2)
ISSN: 0042-6822
Popis: Vaccinia virus IHDA strain induces hemagglutinin (HA) on the surface membrane of infected cells and does not elicit cell-cell fusion (F − ). We isolated 21 independent hemadsorption-negative (HAD − ) mutant viruses from IHD-J and five HAD + revertants from one of these mutants. Of the 21 mutants, 19 that synthesized either no or little HA at the cell surface caused cell-cell fusion (F + ), whereas none of the five revertants that synthesized HA at the cell surface induced cell-cell fusion. Furthermore, anti-HA monoclonal antibody B2D10 induced extensive polykaryocytosis of IHD-J-infected cells and suppressed the ability of the IHD-J-infected cell extract to inhibit the polykaryocytosis induced by IHDW. The other 2 of the 21 HAD − mutants, B1 and A2, which induced HAs at the cell surface, showed F − and F + phenotype, respectively. The HA molecule of mutant B1 had a single amino acid substitution of Lys for Glu-121 in its extracellular domain, whereas that of mutant A2 had a single substitution mutation of Tyr for Cys-103. We conclude that the vaccinia HA is a fusion inhibition protein, that the active sites for the two activities reside separately in its extracellular domain, and that cysteine-103 is important in forming the proper tertiary structure of the protein to exert both activities.
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