Mutation in the matrix protein of Newcastle disease virus can result in decreased fusion glycoprotein incorporation into particles and decreased infectivity.

AUTOR(ES)

Peeples, M E

RESUMO

Virus particles produced in eggs by the group D ts mutants of Newcastle disease virus at permissive temperature display low infectious and hemolytic activities (M.E. Peeples and M. A. Bratt , J. Virol. 42:440-446, 1982). These lower activities correlate with a decreased incorporation of F1+2 (fusion glycoprotein) into virus particles, compared with that for wild type. The incorporation of F1+2 into virus particles of the group D mutants is also lower than that for wild type when grown in chicken embryo cells in culture at either permissive or nonpermissive temperature. The infectivity of virions from these mutants correlates with the amounts of F1+2 in the virus particles, below a certain concentration, indicating that the quantity of F1+2 in virus particles is a determining factor in the infectivity of those particles. In addition, one of these mutants, D1, produces an M (matrix protein) which migrates at a faster rate in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Three of four revertants of D1 have coreverted to wild-type M electrophoretic mobility, associating M with the ts lesion and the other observed phenotypes. In each of these revertants, as well as in three revertants each from D2 and D3, there has been coreversion from the low specific infectious and hemolytic activities to greater, and often wild-type, activities. There is also a coreversion for F1+2 incorporation into virions. All of the revertants incorporate F1+2 into virions more efficiently than their mutant parents. The coreversions associate those phenotypes with the ts lesion and, in the case of D1, with the M lesion as well.

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