A study of the Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus ODV envelope protein p74 using a GFP tag

United State Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Plant Sciences Institute, Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, Bldg 011A, Rm 214, BARC-West, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA 1 Author for correspondence: Susan D. Lawrence. Fax +1 301 504 5104. e-mail lawrencs{at}ba.ars.usda.gov The Autog...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of general virology 2001-09, Vol.82 (9), p.2279-2287
Hauptverfasser: Slack, Jeffrey M, Dougherty, Edward M, Lawrence, Susan D
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Zusammenfassung:United State Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Plant Sciences Institute, Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, Bldg 011A, Rm 214, BARC-West, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA 1 Author for correspondence: Susan D. Lawrence. Fax +1 301 504 5104. e-mail lawrencs{at}ba.ars.usda.gov The Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus ( Ac MNPV) protein p74 is associated with the occlusion-derived virus (ODV) envelope. p74 is essential for oral infectivity of ODV and has been proposed to play a role in midgut attachment and/or fusion. In this study, p74 protein was expressed in-frame with green fluorescent protein (GFP) to create a p74–GFP chimera. The C-terminal GFP portion of the chimera facilitated visualization of the trafficking of p74 in baculovirus-infected Spodoptera frugiperda ( Sf -9) cells. p74–GFP chimeric proteins localized in the intranuclear ring zone of the nucleus and were found to co-precipitate with the microvesicle fraction of cell lysates. A series of truncations of p74 was expressed as p74–GFP chimeras in recombinant baculoviruses. When C-terminal region S580–F645 was deleted from p74, p74–GFP chimera localization became non-specific and chimeras became soluble. p74 region S580–F645 directed GFP to the intranuclear ring zone in a similar pattern to full-length p74. The hydrophobic C terminus of p74 plays a role in protein localization and possibly in transmembrane anchoring and insertion.
ISSN:0022-1317
1465-2099
DOI:10.1099/0022-1317-82-9-2279