Assembly-dependent maturation cleavage in provirions of a small icosahedral insect ribovirus.
AUTOR(ES)
Gallagher, T M
RESUMO
Extracts from nodavirus-infected Drosophila cells contained detergent-labile 140S "young" particles much richer than mature virions in their content of protein alpha, a precursor of coat proteins beta and gamma. Incorporation studies in infected cells showed that most newly synthesized alpha protein was assembled into young particles within a few minutes. Incubation of the particles, either in cytoplasmic extracts or after purification, resulted in spontaneous first-order cleavage of alpha protein to form beta-plus-gamma chains. Alpha protein that was not associated with particles failed to cleave. Cleavage was accompanied by a marked increase in detergent stability of the particles and was unaffected by a broad spectrum of protease inhibitors or by coating with precipitating antibody. We conclude (i) that alpha chains are cleaved only after assembly into provirions, (ii) that cleavage occurs internally and is likely therefore autocatalytic, and (iii) that cleavage stabilizes the mature virus particles.
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