Biochemical characterization of the structural and nonstructural polypeptides of a porcine group C rotavirus.

Purified virions or radiolabeled lysates of infected MA104 cells were used to characterize the structural and nonstructural polypeptides of a porcine group C rotavirus. At least six structural proteins were identified from purified group C rotavirus by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Of these, two (37,000- and 33,000-molecular-weight polypeptides) were associated with the outer shell, as demonstrated by the ability of EDTA to remove them from the purified virion. The other four polypeptides (molecular weights, 125,000, 93,000, 74,000, and 41,000) were located in the inner shell. The structural or nonstructural nature of a 25,000-molecular-weight protein identified in our studies was unclear. Glycosylation inhibition studies with tunicamycin in infected cells demonstrated that the 37,000- and 25,000-molecular-weight proteins were glycosylated and contained mannose-rich oligosaccharides identified by radiolabeling of the infected cells with [3H]mannose. The 37,000-molecular-weight outer shell glycoprotein was shown by pulse-chase experiments to be posttranslationally processed. The kinetics of viral polypeptide synthesis in infected cells were also studied, and maximal synthesis occurred at 6 to 9 h postinfection. The 41,000-molecular-weight inner capsid polypeptide was the most abundant and was the subunit structure of a 165,000-molecular-weight protein aggregate. Two polypeptides (molecular weights, 39,000 and 35,000) appeared to be nonstructural, as determined by comparison of the protein pattern of radiolabeled infected cell lysates with that of purified virions. Radioimmunoprecipitation was used to examine the serologic cross-reactions between the viral polypeptides of a group C rotavirus with those of a group A rotavirus. No serologic cross-reactivities were detected. The polypeptides of group A and C rotaviruses are compared and discussed.     

Analysis of the structural polypeptides of a porcine group C rotavirus.

Polyacrylamide gel analysis of the structural polypeptides of purified group C virions allowed six major proteins to be identified. Of these, two (52,000- and 39,000-molecular-weight polypeptides) were shown to be in the outer virion shell as judged by the ability to strip them from virions by treatment with EDTA. Treatment of purified particles with endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase F showed that the 39,000-molecular-weight outer shell polypeptide is probably posttranslationally glycosylated. Serological cross-comparison of groups A and C by using Western blotting (immunoblotting) extended the previously demonstrated lack of cross-reaction for the group antigen to show that none of the structural polypeptides cross-reacted. Possible implications of these findings for the epidemiology of rotaviruses are discussed.     

Purification and characterization of adult diarrhea rotavirus: identification of viral structural proteins.

Adult diarrhea rotavirus (ADRV) is a newly identified strain of noncultivable human group B rotavirus that has been epidemic in the People's Republic of China since 1982. We have used sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western (immuno-) blot analysis to examine the viral proteins present in the outer and inner capsids of ADRV and compared these with the proteins of a group A rotavirus, SA11. EDTA treatment of double-shelled virions removed the outer capsid and resulted in the loss of three polypeptides of 64, 61, and 41, kilodaltons (kDa). Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H digestion of double-shelled virions identified the 41-kDa polypeptide as a glycoprotein. CaCl2 treatment of single-shelled particles removed the inner capsid and resulted in the loss of one polypeptide with a molecular mass of 47 kDa. The remaining core particle had two major structural proteins of 136 and 113 kDa. All of the proteins visualized on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis were antigenic by Western blot analysis when probed with convalescent-phase human and animal antisera. A 47-kDa polypeptide was most abundant and was strongly immunoreactive with human sera, animal sera raised against ADRV and against other group B animal rotaviruses (infectious diarrhea of infant rat virus, bovine and porcine group B rotavirus, and bovine enteric syncytial virus) and a monoclonal antibody prepared against infectious diarrhea of infant rat virus. This 47-kDa inner capsid polypeptide contains a common group B antigen and is similar to the VP6 of the group A rotaviruses. Human convalescent-phase sera also responded to a 41-kDa polypeptide of the outer capsid that seems similar to the VP7 of group A rotavirus. Other polypeptides have been given tentative designations on the basis of similarities to the control preparation of SA11, including a 136-kDa polypeptide designated VP1, a 113-kDa polypeptide designated VP2, 64- and 61-kDa polypeptides designated VP5 and VP5a, and several proteins in the 110- to 72-kDa range that may be VP3, VP4, or related proteins. The lack of cross-reactivity on Western blots between antisera to group A versus group B rotaviruses confirmed that these viruses are antigenically quite distinct.     

Further biochemical characterization, including the detection of surface glycoproteins, of human, calf, and simian rotaviruses.

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of purified preparation of the simian rotavirus SA-11 indicated eight polypeptide components that migrated in a manner remarkably similar to those of the previously characterized human and calf rotaviruses. Analyses of preparations of single-shelled and double-shelled particles of human, calf, and simian an rotaviruses have also permitted assignment of the polypeptides to the inner or outer shells. The major components of the outer shells of each virus have been identified as glycoproteins, and the importance of this in terms of host cell specificity is discussed. Sensitivities of the various rotaviruses to acid, proteases, and glycosidases were also investigated.     

Characterization of adenovirus-associated virus-induced polypeptides in KB cells.

Electrophoretic analysis of KB cells coinfected with adenovirus-associated virus (AAV) type 2, a defective parvovirus, and adenovirus type 5 (as helper) have revealed the synthesis in vivo of at least five AAV-specific polypeptides. The three largest polypeptides, with molecular weights of 90,700, 71,600, and 60,000 comigrated in polyacrylamide gels with the three AAV structural polypeptides. The remaining two polypeptides had molecular weights of 24,900 and 15,800. The concentrations of the AAV-induced polypeptides relative to one another remained approximately constant during the infectious cycle, and the structural components were present in proportions similar to those found in purified virions. As determined by pulse-chase experiments, all polypeptides were generated at the level of protein synthesis and not by posttranslational proteolytic processing. Although inhibitors of proteolytic enzymes failed to influence the pattern of AAV-induced polypeptides, and amino acid analog, L-canavanine, blocked the appearances of both the major structural polypeptide (60,000 daltons) and the larger nonstructural polypeptide (24,900 daltons). Taken in conjunction with pulse-chase data, this result supports a model whereby the major virion polypeptide is produced by proteolytic cleavage of the nascent polypeptide chain.     

Characterization of cricket paralysis virus-induced polypeptides in Drosophila cells

Cricket paralysis virus purified from Galleria mellonella larvae was shown to be similar to virus purified from Drosophila melanogaster cells. Cricket paralysis virus contained three major structural polypeptides of similar molecular weight (around 30,000), had a buoyant density of 1.344 g/ml, and had a capsid diameter of 27 nm. Twenty virus-induced polypeptides could be detected in CrPV-infected Drosophila cells. Two major polypeptides found in the infected cells corresponded to two structural viral polypeptides (VP1 and VP3), whereas the third major intracellular polypeptide was the apparent precursor of the third viral structural polypeptide (VP2). Three of the primary virus-induced polypeptides had molecular weights of 144,000, 124,000, and 115,000. These and other polypeptides were chased into lower-molecular-weight proteins when excess cold methionine was added after a short [³⁵S]methionine pulse. Although cricket paralysis virus has a number of characteristics in common with the mammalian enteroviruses, the extremely fast processing of high-molecular-weight polypeptides into viral proteins seems atypical. Also, no VP4 (8,000 to 10,000 molecular weight) has been found in the virus particles.     

Structural Polypeptides of the Granulosis Virus of Plodia interpunctella

Techniques were developed for the isolation and purification of three structural components of Plodia interpunctella granulosis virus: granulin, enveloped nucleocapsids, and nucleocapsids. The polypeptide composition and distribution of protein in each viral component were determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate discontinuous and gradient polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis. Enveloped nucleocapsids consisted of 15 structural proteins ranging in molecular weight from 12,600 to 97,300. Five of these proteins, having approximate molecular weights of 17,800, 39,700, 42,400, 48,200, and 97,300, were identified as envelope proteins by surface radioiodination of the enveloped nucleocapsids. Present in purified nucleocapsids were eight polypeptides. The predominant proteins in this structural component had molecular weights of 12,500 and 31,000. Whereas no evidence of polypeptide glycosylation was obtained, six of the viral proteins were observed to be phosphorylated.     

A 49,000-dalton polypeptide bearing all antigenic determinants and full immunogenicity of 22-nm hepatitis B surface antigen particles

Spherical 22-nm hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) particles with a subtype adr were purified from plasma of asymptomatic carriers of hepatitis B virus. When purified HBsAg preparation was treated with sodium dodecylsulfate in the absence of reducing agents, it yielded spherical particles with a diameter smaller than 22 nm, and in addition, a polypeptide with a molecular size of 49,000 daltons, which seemed to constitute the outer coat of HBsAg particles. The recovery of the polypeptide on the basis of optical density at 280 nm was 2%, starting from 22-nm HBsAg particles. The 49,000-dalton polypeptide apparently represented a structural unit of the surface of HBsAg particles, since it bore all common (a, Re) and subtypic (d, r) determinants with essentially the same antigenic titers as intact HBsAg particles. Furthermore, this polypeptide was equally immunogenic as 22-nm HBsAg particles in raising corresponding antibodies in mice. When the 49,000-dalton polypeptide was reduced in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol, it cleaved into 22,000- and 27,000-dalton polypeptides with a drastic decrease in both antigenicity and immunogenicity. These results indicate the different molecular arrangements between outer coat and inner portion of HBsAg particles, and a potential application of the 49,000-dalton polypeptide as a component vaccine, owing to its strong antigenicity both in vitro and in vivo.     

In vitro translation products specified by the transforming region of adenovirus type 2.

Region 1 DNA sequences (map positions 0 to 11% on the linear adenovirus 2 genome) are expressed both early and late in lytic infection and are required for transformation by the virus. During productive infection six distinct cytoplasmic RNAs are synthesized from this region. These RNAs comprise two families, each consisting of three size classes that share 3' sequences. Region 1 RNA's were purified by hybridization selection, using restriction fragments bound to nitrocellulose membranes, and by size fractionation. The isolated RNAs were then translated in cell-free systems derived from wheat germ and rabbit reticulocytes. The family of RNAs specified by 0 to 4.4 sequences includes two RNAs, which are 12S and 13S in size. These RNAs were partially separated by molecular weight and translated. The 13S RNA produced 53,000-dalton (53K) and 41K peptides, and the 12S RNA synthesized 47K and 35K products. The family of RNAs mapping from 4.4 to 11.0 encodes three separate polypeptides, each of which can be assigned to a specific RNA. A 12K product that comigrates with structural polypeptide IX is synthesized from the 9S RNA as previously reported (U. Pettersson and M. B. Mathews, Cell 12:741-750, 1977). The 13S RNA encodes a 15K polypeptide that corresponds to a 15K polypeptide in infected cell extracts. The 22s RNA encodes a 52K protein distinct from the 0 to 4.4 polypeptides.     

Structural polypeptides of mammalian type C RNA viruses. Isolation and immunologic characterization of a low molecular weight polypeptide, p10.

Low molecular weight polypeptides of several mammalian type C RNA tumor viruses were purified by sequential ion exchange chromatography and molecular sizing techniques. These included a polypeptide with a molecular weight of 10,000 to 11,000, p 10, from two type C viruses of mouse origin. Rauscher- and Moloney-murine leukemia virus (MuL virus), and from an infectious type C virus isolate of the woolly monkey. The p12 structural polypeptides of these viruses as well as Rauscher-MuL virus p15 were also purified. By using radioimmunoassays developed for each polypeptide, it was possible to demonstrate that all three low molecular weight polypeptides, p15, p12, and p10, were immunologically unique. Among type C viral structural polypeptides, p10 has been least well characterized immunologically. The results of the present study indicate that p10 is virus-coded and possesses strong group-specific antigenic determinants. By use of appropriate immunoassays, broadly reactive interspecies determinants shared by mammalian type C virus isolates of murine, feline, and primate origin, were also demonstrated. The interspecies antigenic determinants of p10 were shown to be as broadly cross-reactive as those exhibited by the major type C virus structural polypeptide, p30.     

Protein heterogeneity in rabbit liver ferritin: two types of molecular dimers

Native pore-gradient polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of rabbit liver ferritin reveals the usual single band of molecular monomers, but shows two bands at the position of molecular dimers. The proteins in these three bands were purified by excision from preparative slab gels. All three bands (1) contain considerable amounts of iron-rich ferritin when examined by electron microscopy, (2) show complete identity when reacted with anti-rabbit-ferritin antibodies, and (3) have similar amounts of H-type and L-type ferritin subunits with denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. These results establish that there are two classes of ferritin molecular dimers. The larger dimer band uniquely also contains a polypeptide with Mr = 170,000. This unusual type of ferritin heterogeneity seems to be due to the presence of a non-ferritin protein associated only with one class of dimers.     

Beta-galactosidase: isolation of and antibodies to incomplete chains

A prematurely terminated polypeptide chain was purified to homogeneity from an Escherichia coli amber mutant strain containing the site of the mutation in the beta-galactosidase structural gene. The polypeptide was highly active against anti-beta-galactosidase, and had an amino acid composition similar to but not identical to that of beta-galactosidase. The molecular weight of the reduced, carboxymethylated chain in 6 m guanidine hydrochloride was found to be 89,000, in excellent agreement with the size predicted from the position of the mutation. This result adds further support to the conclusion that the gene specifies the structure of a single polypeptide chain. Antisera were prepared against partially purified preparations of this polypeptide and a similar one, of molecular weight about 100,000, produced by another amber mutant. These sera had lower titers towards beta-galactosidase than anti-beta-galactosidase. In the double-diffusion test, they reacted towards extracts of nonsense and deletion mutant strains in a pattern similar to that previously observed with anti-beta-galactosidase. A sensitive immunological test for cross-reacting protein was devised based on the inhibition by beta-galactosidase of the reaction between such protein and antibodies prepared against incomplete chains.     

Structure of extracellular hemoglobin from the brine shrimp Artemia salina.

1. Hemoglobin from the brine shrimp Artemia salina, purified by ultracentrifugation and preparative gel electrophoresis in non-denaturing medium, gave in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis a single band corresponding to a polypeptide chain with Mr 150,000. 2. Crosslinking by glutardialdehyde resulted in the appearance of a band corresponding to a molecular mass twice that of a polypeptide chain. 3. Limited trypsinolysis gave eight proteolytic bands corresponding to submultiples 8/9-1/9 of a polypeptide chain. 4. We conclude that a molecule of Artemia hemoglobin is composed of two single polypeptide chain subunits and that each subunit consists of nine structural units roughly equal in size.     

Structural Proteins of Simian Virus 40

Sodium dodecyl sulfate acrylamide gel electrophoresis of the solubilized proteins from purified simian virus 40 (SV40) virions revealed two major and two minor structural polypeptide components. The major components which comprise over 75% of the total virion were shown to be the capsid proteins by immunological and isoelectric focusing fractionation analysis. These two polypeptides have estimated molecular weights of 45,000 daltons as determined by gel electrophoresis. One of the two minor components was identified as the nucleocapsid protein and has an approximate molecular weight of 16,000. The other unidentified minor component has an average molecular weight of 29,000.     

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A polypeptide bacteriophage receptor: modified cell wall protein subunits in bacteriophage-resistant mutants of Bacillus sphaericus strain P-1

Bacillus sphaericus strain P-1 has previously been shown to have a tetragonally arrayed (T layer) protein which forms the outer layer of the cell wall. The T layer was quantitatively extracted from whole cells by 6 M urea, and the T layer subunits were purified by electrophoresis of the extracts on acrylamide gels containing 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate or 6 M urea. Using ethylene diacrylate cross-linked gels, the T layer was found to make up 16% of the total cellular protein. A virulent bacteriophage which is inactivated by purified T layer was isolated from soil. Twenty-four phage-resistant mutants were isolated, of which 17 had T layer subunits of increased mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate acrylamide gels. No mutants devoid of T layer were found. Mutants were grouped into six classes according to the molecular weight of their T layer subunits. These ranged from that of the wild type, 150,000 down to 86,000. Two mutants from different classes were examined in detail. Cells of the mutant strains did not adsorb phage nor did cell walls isolated from these mutants inactivate phage. The amino acid composition of the T layers from mutants differed little from that of the wild-type T layer.     

Catabolic alanine racemase from Salmonella typhimurium: DNA sequence, enzyme purification, and characterization

The alanine racemase encoded by the Salmonella typhimurium dadB gene was purified to 90% homogeneity from an overproducing strain. At 37 degrees C the enzyme has a specific activity of 1400 units/mg (V max, L- to D-alanine). Active enzyme molecules are monomers of Mr 39 000 with one molecule of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate bound per subunit. The Km's for L- and D-alanine are 8.2 and 2.1 mM, respectively. Measurement of turnover numbers yielded the expected Keq value of 1.0. Determination of 22 of the 25 N-terminal amino acid residues of the purified polypeptide allowed localization of cloned DNA encoding the structural gene. Sequencing of subcloned DNA revealed that the dadB gene encodes a polypeptide of 356 amino acids whose calculated molecular weight (apoenzyme) was 39 044.