Interaction of glycoprotein H of human herpesvirus 6 with the cellular receptor CD46 |
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Authors: | Santoro Fabio Greenstone Heather L Insinga Alessandra Liszewski M Kathryn Atkinson John P Lusso Paolo Berger Edward A |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. |
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Abstract: | Human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) employs the complement regulator CD46 (membrane cofactor protein) as a receptor for fusion and entry into target cells. Like other known herpesviruses, HHV-6 encodes multiple glycoproteins, several of which have been implicated in the entry process. In this report, we present evidence that glycoprotein H (gH) is the viral component responsible for binding to CD46. Antibodies to CD46 co-immunoprecipitated an approximately 110-kDa protein band specifically associated with HHV-6-infected cells. This protein was identified as gH by selective depletion with an anti-gH monoclonal antibody, as well as by immunoblot analysis with a rabbit hyperimmune serum directed against a gH synthetic peptide. In reciprocal experiments, a monoclonal antibody against HHV-6 gH was found to co-immunoprecipitate CD46. Studies using monoclonal antibodies directed against specific CD46 domains, as well as engineered constructs lacking defined CD46 regions, demonstrated a close correspondence between the CD46 domains involved in the interaction with gH and those previously shown to be critical for HHV-6 fusion (i.e. short consensus repeats 2 and 3). |
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