ASSEMBLY OF ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS
ASSEMBLY OF ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6822(80)90071-9
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
CARTER, BJ
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作者:
MYERS, MW;CARTER, BJ
The assembly of the defective parvovirus, adeno-associated virus (AAV), was studied by labeling DNA and protein precursors with [3H]thymidine or [35S]methionine, respectively. Virus particles were extracted from cell [human oral carcinoma KB] lysates and characterized by banding to equilibrium in CsCl gradients and by velocity sedimentation in neutral sucrose. Radioactive pulse-chase labeling experiments showed that newly synthesized AAV proteins are rapidly assembled into empty capsids which in turn serve as precursors to stable, mature (full) particles that contain a standard or deleted (defective-interfering) virus genome. While association of the newly synthesized progeny DNA strands with empty capsids appears to be rapid, maturation to form a stable full particle apparently is a much slower process requiring several hours. A new component having the properties of an AAV genome associated with the empty capsid in a DNase-sensitive conformation (in contrast to the complete DNase resistance of DNA in mature particles) also exhibited pulse-chase kinetics consistent with a role as an assembly intermediate. L-Canavanine inhibited production of empty capsids and thus inhibited assembly of full particles. Pretreatment of infected cultures with hydroxyurea inhibited appearance of full particles and caused accumulation of empty capsids consistent with their precursor role. Addition of hydroxyurea immediately after a pulse label showed that maturation of AAV particles appears to occur in the absence of concomitant DNA replication. A model is proposed for AAV assembly in which progeny DNA strands are packaged into preformed capsids.