FUSION ACTIVITY OF INFLUENZA VIRUS-PR8/34 CORRELATES WITH A TEMPERATURE-INDUCED CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE WITHIN THE HEMAGGLUTININ ECTODOMAIN DETECTED BY PHOTOCHEMICAL LABELING
FUSION ACTIVITY OF INFLUENZA VIRUS-PR8/34 CORRELATES WITH A TEMPERATURE-INDUCED CONFORMATIONAL CHANGE WITHIN THE HEMAGGLUTININ ECTODOMAIN DETECTED BY PHOTOCHEMICAL LABELING
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00223a019
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发表时间:
1991-03-05
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
MISCHLER, R
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作者:
BRUNNER, J;ZUGLIANI, C;MISCHLER, R
Fusion of influenza viruses with membranes is catalyzed by the viral spike protein hemagglutinin (HA). Under mildly acidic conditions (approximately pH 5) this protein undergoes a conformational change that triggers the exposure of the "fusion peptide", the hydrophobic N-terminal segment of the HA2 polypeptide chain. Insertion of this segment into the target membrane (or viral membrane?) is likely to represent a key step along the fusion pathway, but the details are far from being clear. The photoreactive phospholipid 1-palmitoyl-2-[11-[4-[3-(trifluoromethyl)diazirinyl]phenyl][2-H-3]undecanoyl]-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine ([H-3]PTPC/11), inserted into the bilayer of large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs), allowed us to investigate both the interaction of viruses with the vesicles under "prefusion" conditions (pH 5; 0-degrees-C) and the fusion process itself occurring at elevated temperatures (> 15-20-degrees-C) only. Despite the observed binding of viruses to LUVs at pH 5 and 0-degrees-C, labeling of HA2 was very weak (< 0.002% of the radioactivity originally present). In contrast, fusion could be readily monitored by the covalent labeling of that polypeptide chain. We have studied also the effect of temperature on the acid-induced (pH 5) interaction of bromelain-solubilized HA (BHA) with vesicles. Labeling of the BHA2 polypeptide chain was found to show a remarkable correlation with the temperature dependence of the fusion activity of whole viruses. A temperature-induced structural change appears to be critical for both the interaction of BHA with membranes and the expression of fusion activity of intact viruses.