Details:

Alternative Title:
Virology
Personal Author:
Sharma, Sapna ; Wisner, Todd W. ; Johnson, David C. ; Heldwein, Ekaterina E. ;
Sharma, Sapna ; Wisner, Todd W. ; Johnson, David C. ; Heldwein, Ekaterina E. ; Less -
Description:
Glycoprotein B (gB) facilitates HCMV entry into cells by binding receptors and mediating membrane fusion. The crystal structures of gB ectodomains from HSV-1 and EBV are available, but little is known about the HCMV gB structure. Using multiangle light scattering and electron microscopy, we show here that HCMV gB ectodomain is a trimer with the overall shape similar to HSV-1 and EBV gB ectodomains. HCMV gB ectodomain forms rosettes similar to rosettes formed by EBV gB and the postfusion forms of other viral fusogens. Substitution of several bulky hydrophobic residues within the putative fusion loops with more hydrophilic residues reduced rosette formation and abolished cell fusion. We propose that like gB proteins from HSV-1 and EBV, HCMV gB has two internal hydrophobic fusion loops that likely interact with target membranes. Our work establishes structural and functional similarities between gB proteins from three subfamilies of herpesviruses.
Subject:
[+]
Amino Acid Sequence
Article
Cytomegalovirus
Entry
Fusion Loop
Glycoprotein B
Glycosylation
Herpesviridae
Herpesvirus
Herpesvirus 1, Human
Herpesvirus 4, Human
Mass Spectrometry
Membrane Fusion
Microscopy, Electron
Models, Molecular
Molecular Sequence Data
Protein Conformation
Rosette
Viral Envelope Proteins
Membrane Fusion

Source:
Virology. 2012 ; 435(2):239-249;
Pubmed ID:
23089254
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC3534942
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Funding:
R01 AI081517/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; 1DP20D001996/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; R01AI081517/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; P30 AI042853/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; DP2 OD001996/OD/NIH HHS/United States ;
R01 AI081517/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; 1DP20D001996/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; R01AI081517/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; P30 AI042853/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; DP2 OD001996/OD/NIH HHS/United States ; Less -
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
[+]
urn:sha256:195663a88bbab72a99b4638dc944088247103b5d7e7eca50e2f08779ab92f22f
File Type:

Supporting Files

• 	nihms411550f4.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550f5.gif	gif
  	nihms411550f5.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550f6.gif	gif
  	nihms411550f6.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550f7.gif	gif
  	nihms411550f7.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550.nxml	xml
  	nihms411550f1.gif	gif
  	nihms411550f1.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550f2.gif	gif
  	nihms411550f2.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550f3.gif	gif
  	nihms411550f3.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms411550f4.gif	gif

More +