Labeling of the cytoplasmic domain of the influenza virus hemagglutinin with fluorescein reveals sites of interaction with membrane lipid bilayers.
Labeling of the cytoplasmic domain of the influenza virus hemagglutinin with fluorescein reveals sites of interaction with membrane lipid bilayers.
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用荧光素标记流感病毒血凝素的细胞质结构域揭示了与膜脂双层相互作用的位点。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00348a043
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发表时间:
1985
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Parce,JW
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作者:
Lyles,DS;McKinnon,KP;Parce,JW
The hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein of influenza virus was labeled in its cytoplasmic domain with fluorescein. Reactive amino groups in the external domain were blocked by modification of the intact virus with the membrane-impermeable reagent isethionyl acetimidate. The HA was then solubilizedwith the detergent octyl glucoside, and the single lysine in the cytoplasmic domain was reacted with fluorescein isothiocyanate. This protocol resulted in the incorporation of 1.3 mol of fluorescein/mol of HA. Using a virus strain lacking lysine in the cytoplasmic domain ofHA, it was determined that 0.47 mol of fluor-escein/mol of HA was located at an additional site (s). The fluoresceingroups at both sites exist in an environment of reduced polarity as shown by a shift in excitation and emission maxima and a shift in the pKa of the fluorescein groups. The fluorescence polarization and the pKa of the fluorescein groups were greater when the HA was incorporated into liposomes than when in detergent solution. These dataindicate that the fluorescein groups interactdirectly with the lipid bilayer, probably in the phospholipid head-group region. The fluorescence properties of the labeled HA were not responsive to the gel to liquid-crystal phase transition in the lipid bilayer. These results indicate that the boundary between the cytoplasmic domain and the hydrophobic sequence that anchors the protein to the lipid bilayer is located in the head-group region of the bilayer. e membranelike envelope of influenza viruses contains two surface glycoproteins [reviewed extensively, eg, see Lamb (1983)]. The hemagglutinin (HA) 1 is the major virion surface protein. It is responsible for virus attachment to sialic acid containing receptors on host cells and for fusion of the virus envelope with the membrane of endocytic vesicles during virus penetration. The neuraminidase (NA) glycoprotein is present in lesser amounts in the virus envelope and is responsible for release of the virus from receptors. Both glycoproteins are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum and transported to the host plasma membrane by the same pathway followed by host plasma membrane glycoproteins. The virus envelope is acquired by budding from the host membrane. During the budding process, the internal viral components associate with the cytoplasmic surface of the membrane and interact with the viral glycoproteins to form a specialized region of the membrane from which host proteins are largely excluded. The surface glycoproteins are the major antigenic species on the virus envelope and host plasma membrane to which antiviral antibody is directed. Periodic genetic variation in these gly-coproteins gives rise to new virus strains that are antigenically distinct and are responsible for recurring epidemics of influ-enza. The HA glycoprotein is a trimer of identical subunits. Each subunit consists of two disulfide-linked peptidechains designated HA](Mr approximately 50000) and HA2 (Mr ap-proximately 25000) derived by proteolysis of a common precursor, HA0. The HA is anchored to the envelope phos-t Supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (Al-15892 and AI-20778) and the American Cancer Society (IM-307).* Correspondence should be addressed to this author.* Department of Microbiology and Immunology. s Present address: Department of Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710. 11 Department of Biochemistry.