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Temporal Analysis of the Nuclear-to-cytoplasmic Translocation of a Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Protein by Immunofluorescent Confocal Microscopy
Published on: November 4, 2018
[Role of lipid raft in assembly of human herpesvirus 6]
1Dept. of Pathogenobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, China.
Abstract:
To explore the role of lipid raft in assembly of human herpesvirus 6, the HHV-6 GS strain was applied to infect the HSB2 cells and then the lipid raft composition was extracted from the cells with non-ionic detergent Triton-X 100. The relationship between the HHV-6 envelope glycoprotein and lipid raft was analyzed by Western Blot. Immunofluorescence double-staining was used to study the colocalization of the HHV-6 glycoprotein B(gB) with GPI anchored protein CD59 and ganglioside GM respectively. HHV-6 envelope glycoprotein B, H, L, Q1 and Q2 (gB, gH, gL, gQ1 and gQ2) were all existed in the lipid raft. Moreover, CD59 and HHV-6 envelope glycoprotein B showed the same localization through the confocal microscope. We concluded the lipid raft provided the platform for HHV-6 assembly. This is the first report concerning to the role of lipid raft in assembly of human Herpesvirus 6.
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