A filovirus-unique region of Ebola virus nucleoprotein confers aberrant migration and mediates its incorporation into virions

被引：31

作者：

Shi, Wei ^{[1
]}

Huang, Yue ^{[1
]}

Sutton-Smith, Mark ^{[2
]}

Tissot, Berangere ^{[2
]}

Panico, Maria ^{[2
]}

Morris, Howard R. ^{[2
,3
]}

Dell, Anne ^{[2
]}

Haslam, Stuart M. ^{[2
]}

Boyington, Jeffrey ^{[1
]}

Graham, Barney S. ^{[1
]}

Yang, Zhi-Yong ^{[1
]}

Nabell, Gary J. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] NIAID, Vaccine Res Ctr, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

[2] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Fac Nat Sci, Div Mol Biosci, London SW7 2AZ, England

[3] M Scan Ltd, Fishponds Close RG41 2TZ, Wokingham, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY | 2008年 / 82卷 / 13期

基金：

英国惠康基金; 英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1128/JVI.02731-07

中图分类号：

Q93 [微生物学];

学科分类号：

071005 ; 100705 ;

摘要：

The Ebola virus nucleoprotein (NP) is an essential component of the nucleocapsid, required for filovirus particle formation and replication. Together with virion protein 35 (VP35) and VP24, this gene product gives rise to the filamentous nucleocapsid within transfected cells. Ebola virus NP migrates aberrantly, with an apparent molecular mass of 115 kDa, although it is predicted to encode an similar to 85-kDa protein. In this report, we show that two domains of this protein determine this aberrant migration and that this region mediates its incorporation into virions. These regions, amino acids 439 to 492 and amino acids 589 to 739, alter the mobility of Ebola virus NP by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis by 5 and 15 kDa, respectively, and confer similar effects on a heterologous protein, LacZ, in a position-independent fashion. Furthermore, when coexpressed with VP40, VP35, and VP24, this region mediated incorporation of NP into released viruslike particles. When fused to chimeric paramyxovirus NPs derived from measles or respiratory syncytial virus, this domain directed these proteins into the viruslike particle. The COOH-terminal NP domain comprises a conserved highly acidic region of NP with predicted disorder, distinguishing Ebola virus NPs from paramyxovirus NPs. The acidic character of this domain is likely responsible for its aberrant biochemical properties. These findings demonstrate that this region is essential for the assembly of the filamentous nucleocapsids that give rise to filoviruses.

引用

页码：6190 / 6199

页数：10

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