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Methodology for the Efficient Generation of Fluorescently Tagged Vaccinia Virus Proteins
Published on: January 17, 2014
A conserved sequence within the H2 subunit of the vaccinia virus entry/fusion complex is important for interaction
Gretchen E Nelson1, Timothy R Wagenaar, Bernard Moss
1Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-3210, USA.
Abstract:
The recently described vaccinia virus entry/fusion complex (EFC) comprises at least eight polypeptides that are conserved in all poxviruses. Neither the structure of the complex nor the roles of individual subunits are known. Here we provide evidence for an interaction between the H2 and A28 subunits in the context of a virus infection as well as in uninfected cells transfected with plasmids expressing the corresponding genes. We focused on a highly conserved 21-amino acid-segment in H2 that is flanked by cysteine residues. The effect of amino acid substitutions within the 21-amino-acid segment was determined by an infectivity complementation assay using a conditional H2-null mutant of vaccinia virus. Mutations that had no, moderate, or large negative effects on complementation were found. The latter group included glutamic acid substitutions of leucine and individual glycines and alanine substitution of both glycines within a LGYSG sequence. Mutations with the most pronounced effect on infectivity disrupted the interaction of H2 with A28 to the greatest extent in both infected and uninfected cells. These data indicate that the LGYSG sequence is important for the interaction of H2 with A28 and suggest that this sequence is buried within the EFC complex.
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