NDLI: The Membrane-Proximal Domain of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus G Protein Functions as a Membrane Fusion Potentiator and Can Induce Hemifusion

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Author	Jeetendra, E. Robison, Clinton S. Albritton, Lorraine M. Whitt, Michael A.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	Recently we showed that the membrane-proximal stem region of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) G protein ectodomain (G stem [GS]), together with the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains, was sufficient to mediate efficient VSV budding (C. S. Robison and M. A. Whitt, J. Virol. 74:2239-2246, 2000). Here, we show that GS can also potentiate the membrane fusion activity of heterologous viral fusion proteins when GS is coexpressed with those proteins. For some fusion proteins, there was as much as a 40-fold increase in syncytium formation when GS was coexpressed compared to that seen when the fusion protein was expressed alone. Fusion potentiation by GS was not protein specific, since it occurred with both pH-dependent as well as pH-independent fusion proteins. Using a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus encoding GS that contained an N-terminal hemagglutinin (HA) tag (GSHA virus), we found that the GSHA virus bound to cells as well as the wild-type virus did at pH 7.0; however, the GSHA virus was noninfectious. Analysis of cells expressing GSHA in a three-color membrane fusion assay revealed that GSHA could induce lipid mixing but not cytoplasmic mixing, indicating that GS can induce hemifusion. Treatment of GSHA virus-bound cells with the membrane-destabilizing drug chlorpromazine rescued the hemifusion block and allowed entry and subsequent replication of GSHA virus, demonstrating that GS-mediated hemifusion was a functional intermediate in the membrane fusion pathway. Using a series of truncation mutants, we also determined that only 14 residues of GS, together with the VSV G transmembrane and cytoplasmic tail, were sufficient for fusion potentiation. To our knowledge, this is the first report which shows that a small domain of one viral glycoprotein can promote the fusion activity of other, unrelated viral glycoproteins.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.76.23.12300-12311.2002
Ending Page	12311
Page Count	12
Starting Page	12300
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0022538X
e-ISSN	10985514
Journal	Journal of Virology
Issue Number	23
Volume Number	76
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Publisher Date	2002-12-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology
Subject Keyword	Immunology Virology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Virology Immunology Microbiology Insect Science

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