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Activation of vesicular stomatitis virus fusion with cells by pretreatment at low pH
A Puri et al. J Biol Chem. 1988.
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Abstract
Fusion of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) with Vero cells was measured after exposure of the virus to low pH under a variety of experimental conditions. The method of relief of fluorescence self-quenching of the probe octadecylrhodamine was used to monitor fusion. Incubation of the virus at pH 5.5 prior to binding to cells led to significant enhancement of fusion at the plasma membrane, whereas fusion via the endocytic pathway was inhibited. Fusion of pH 5.5-pretreated VSV showed a similar pH threshold for fusion as nontreated virus, and it was blocked by antibody to VSV G protein. Activation of VSV by pretreatment at low pH was only slightly dependent on temperature. In contrast, when VSV was first bound to target cells and subsequently exposed at 4 degrees C to the low pH, activation of the fusion process did not occur. The pH 5.5-mediated activation of VSV could be reversed by returning the pH to neutral in the absence of target membranes. The low pH pretreatment also led to aggregation of virus; large aggregates could be pelleted by low speed centrifugation and only the effects of the supernatant, which consist of single virions and/or microaggregates, were considered. The data were analyzed in the framework of an allosteric model according to which viral spike glycoproteins undergo a pH-dependent conformational transition to an active (fusion-competent) state. Based on that analysis we conclude that the conformational transition to the active state is rate-limiting for fusion and that the viral spike glycoproteins are fusion-competent only in their protonated form.
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