Characterization and classification of virus particles associated with hepatitis A. III. Structural proteins.
AUTOR(ES)
Tratschin, J D
RESUMO
Hepatitis A virus was purified from fecal samples collected at various times in the incubation period of patients with naturally acquired hepatitis A. The proteins of particles banding at around 1.34 g/ml in CsCl and sedimenting at about 160S were radioiodinated in vitro and separated by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels in the presence of 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate and 8 M urea. Under these conditions, the capsid proteins resolved into four polypeptides with molecular weights of approximately 31,000, 24,500, 21,000, and 9,000, respectively. A fifth protein of about 40,000 daltons in size and assumed to be equivalent to the precursor polypeptide VP0 of the picornaviruses was present in particles sedimenting at only 150 to 155S and banding at around 1.33 g/ml in CsCl. The physicochemical characteristics of these particles are consistent with those of the provirion structures of picornaviruses. In several of the fecal samples, these particles represented a considerable fraction of all particles present. The significance of this finding with respect to the antigenicity of hepatitis A antigen extracted from stool specimens is discussed.
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