Yue Z, Shatkin A J
Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.
J Virol. 1996 Jun;70(6):3497-501. doi: 10.1128/JVI.70.6.3497-3501.1996.
Reovirus genome segment S4 codes for polypeptide sigma3, a major outer capsid component of virions and a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-binding protein implicated in viral cytopathogenesis. We have constructed a stable HeLa cell line (S4tTA) that produces functional sigma3 under tetracycline transactivator control. In the absence of tetracycline, S4tTA cells synthesized stable dsRNA-binding sigma3 that accumulated in the nucleus as well as in the cytoplasm. However, in induced S4tTA cells also expressing reovirus outer shell polypeptide mu1/mu1C, migration of sigma3 into the nucleus was blocked, probably as a result of formation of a complex with mu1/mu1C which was exclusively in the cytoplasm. Mutant analyses indicated a correlation between dsRNA-binding activity and nuclear entry of sigma3, suggesting an additional role(s) for this capsid protein in virus-cell interactions.
呼肠孤病毒基因组片段S4编码σ3多肽,它是病毒粒子的主要外衣壳成分,也是一种双链RNA(dsRNA)结合蛋白,与病毒细胞病变机制有关。我们构建了一个稳定的HeLa细胞系(S4tTA),该细胞系在四环素反式激活因子的控制下产生功能性σ3。在没有四环素的情况下,S4tTA细胞合成稳定的dsRNA结合性σ3,其在细胞核和细胞质中积累。然而,在诱导的同时也表达呼肠孤病毒外壳多肽μ1/μ1C的S4tTA细胞中,σ3向细胞核的迁移被阻断了,这可能是由于与仅存在于细胞质中的μ1/μ1C形成复合物的结果。突变分析表明dsRNA结合活性与σ3的核进入之间存在相关性,这表明这种衣壳蛋白在病毒-细胞相互作用中还有其他作用。