Antibody recognition of the influenza virus neuraminidase.
Antibody recognition of the influenza virus neuraminidase.
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流感病毒神经氨酸酶的抗体识别。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1989.054.01.031
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发表时间:
1989
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通讯作者:
Luo,M
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作者:
Air,GM;Laver,WG;Webster,RG;Els,MC;Luo,M
Influenza virus neuraminidase (NA) was the first enzyme found to be an integral part of a virus and coded by the viral genome. It remains one of the bestcharacterized viral enzymes at the molecular level, although its role in viral infection is still not well understood. NA cleaves terminal N-acetyl neuraminic acid (sialic acid) from glycoconjugates on the cell surface. Because sialic acid is the receptor to which influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) initially binds on the host cell, NA is a receptor-destroying enzyme. It allows virus to be released from the surface of infected cells and prevents self-aggregation by cleaving sialic acid from the complex carbohydrates on the HA (Palese et al. 1974; Basak et al. 1985). NA may also assist in virus spread and access to new cells by cleaving sialic acid from the mucins that overlie the epithelial cells of the respiratory tract. Although the relative importance of these functions of NA are not well understood, NA induces antibodies that protect against lethal influenza viruses (Webster et al. 1988). NA is one of two surface glycoprotein spikes (the other being the receptor-binding moiety, HA) embedded in the lipid envelope of the virion. NA accounts for about 5-10% of the virus protein and is seen in the electron microscope as a mushroom-shaped protrusion. It is a tetramer with a box-shaped head, 100• 100 x 60/~,, made of four coplanar, roughly spherical identical subunits with a centrally attached stalk anchored in the virus membrane by a hydrophobic region near the amino-terminal end of the polypeptide (Fig. 1). This contrasts with the influenza HA, which is anchored by a hydrophobic sequence near the carboxyl terminus. No posttranslational cleavage of the NA polypeptide occurs, no signal peptide is split off, and even the initiating methionine is retained (Blok et al. 1982). Nor is there processing at the carboxyl terminus; the carboxyterminal sequence Met-Pro-Ile, predicted from the gene sequence for N2 NA, is found in intact NA molecules isolated from the virus. A sequence of six polar amino acids at the amino terminus of the NA polypeptide, which are totally conserved in each of the nine different influenza A NA subtypes (Blok and Air 1982; Air et al. 1985a) but not in influenza B (Shaw et al. 1982), is followed by a sequence of hydrophobic amino acids that must represent the transmembrane regions of the NA (Fields et al. 1981). This sequence is not conserved at all between subtypes (apart from conservation of hydrophobicity). For biochemical studies, a soluble form of the NA can be released from the virus particles by treatment with proteinases, which cleave the polypeptide in the positions shown (Fig. 1), removing the stalk and releasing the enzymatically and antigenically active head of the NA, which can be crystallized in some cases (Laver 1978). Viruses have been obtained with" stubby" NA molecules in which the stalk is shortened by deletions of up to 18 amino acids, which is nearly 50% of the length (Els et al. 1985). The three-dimensional structures of two influenza NAs have been determined by X-ray crystallography and published at 3/~ resolution (Varghese et al. 1983; Baker et al. 1987). Further refinement has since been done (Tulip et al., this volume). The genome of the influenza A and B viruses consists of single-stranded RNA of negative sense existing in eight pieces, packaged in orderly fashion within the virion by some as yet unknown mechanism. Each piece codes for one of the major viral proteins, and in some cases, minor proteins are also coded, using overlapping reading frames (for review, see Lamb and Choppin 1983). NA is coded by the sixth largest RNA segment. Each of the viral genes has been …