Activation of a paramyxovirus fusion protein is modulated by inside-out signaling from the cytoplasmic tail

AUTOR(ES)

Waning, David L.

FONTE

National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Many viruses have evolved fusion-mediating glycoproteins that couple the energy released from irreversible protein refolding to the work of membrane fusion. The viral fusion proteins require a triggering event to undergo a cascade of tightly regulated conformational changes. Different isolates of the paramyxovirus SV5 fusion (F) protein have either a short (20-residue) or long (42-residue) cytoplasmic tail (CT), and a long CT suppresses fusion activity in a sequence-specific manner. Addition of a domain to the F protein CT, which has the propensity to form a three-helix bundle, stabilizes the F protein and increases the energy required for fusion activation. Quantitative cell–cell fusion assays and measurement of ectodomain conformation by monoclonal antibody reactivity indicate that this suppression of fusion by the long CT or addition of a three-helix bundle occurs at a step preceding initial membrane merger. The data suggest that F protein activation involves CT signaling to the ectodomain.

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