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Jiang L, Tang A, Song L, Tong Y, Fan H. Advances in the development of antivirals for rotavirus infection. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1041149. [PMID: 37006293 PMCID: PMC10063883 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1041149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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Rotavirus (RV) causes 200,000 deaths per year and imposes a serious burden to public health and livestock farming worldwide. Currently, rehydration (oral and intravenous) remains the main strategy for the treatment of rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE), and no specific drugs are available. This review discusses the viral replication cycle in detail and outlines possible therapeutic approaches including immunotherapy, probiotic-assisted therapy, anti-enteric secretory drugs, Chinese medicine, and natural compounds. We present the latest advances in the field of rotavirus antivirals and highlights the potential use of Chinese medicine and natural compounds as therapeutic agents. This review provides an important reference for rotavirus prevention and treatment.
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- *Correspondence: Huahao Fan, ; Yigang Tong, ; Lihua Song,
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- *Correspondence: Huahao Fan, ; Yigang Tong, ; Lihua Song,
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- *Correspondence: Huahao Fan, ; Yigang Tong, ; Lihua Song,
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Rodríguez JM, Luque D. Structural Insights into Rotavirus Entry. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1215:45-68. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14741-9_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Cross-linking of rotavirus outer capsid protein VP7 by antibodies or disulfides inhibits viral entry. J Virol 2011; 85:10509-17. [PMID: 21849465 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00234-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Antibodies that neutralize rotavirus infection target outer coat proteins VP4 and VP7 and inhibit viral entry. The structure of a VP7-Fab complex (S. T. Aoki, et al., Science 324:1444-1447, 2009) led us to reclassify epitopes into two binding regions at inter- and intrasubunit boundaries of the calcium-dependent trimer. It further led us to show that antibodies binding at the intersubunit boundary inhibit uncoating of the virion outer layer. We have now tested representative antibodies for each of the defined structural epitope regions and find that antibodies recognizing epitopes in either binding region neutralize by cross-linking VP7 trimers. Antibodies that bind at the intersubunit junction neutralize as monovalent Fabs, while those that bind at the intrasubunit region require divalency. The VP7 structure has also allowed us to design a disulfide cross-linked VP7 mutant which recoats double-layered particles (DLPs) as efficiently as does wild-type VP7 but which yields particles defective in cell entry as determined both by lack of infectivity and by loss of α-sarcin toxicity in the presence of recoated particles. We conclude that dissociation of the VP7 trimer is an essential step in viral penetration into cells.
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Trypsin primes rotavirus for efficient infectivity by cleaving the spike protein, VP4, into VP8* and VP5*. A recombinant VP5* fragment has a trimeric, folded-back structure. Comparison of this structure with virion spikes suggests that a rearrangement, analogous to those of enveloped virus fusion proteins, may mediate membrane penetration by rotavirus during entry. To detect this inferred rearrangement of virion-associated authentic VP5*, we raised conformation-specific monoclonal antibodies against the recombinant VP5* fragment in its putative post-membrane penetration conformation. Using one of these antibodies, we demonstrate that rotavirus uncoating triggers a conformational change in the cleaved VP4 spike to yield rearranged VP5*.
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Zhou Y, Frey TK, Yang JJ. Viral calciomics: interplays between Ca2+ and virus. Cell Calcium 2009; 46:1-17. [PMID: 19535138 PMCID: PMC3449087 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceca.2009.05.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2008] [Revised: 05/15/2009] [Accepted: 05/18/2009] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Ca2+ is one of the most universal and versatile signaling molecules and is involved in almost every aspect of cellular processes. Viruses are adept at utilizing the universal Ca2+ signal to create a tailored cellular environment that meets their own demands. This review summarizes most of the known mechanisms by which viruses perturb Ca2+ homeostasis and utilize Ca2+ and cellular Ca2+-binding proteins to their benefit in their replication cycles. Ca2+ plays important roles in virion structure formation, virus entry, viral gene expression, posttranslational processing of viral proteins and virion maturation and release. As part of the review, we introduce an algorithm to identify linear “EF-hand” Ca2+-binding motifs which resulted in the prediction of a total of 93 previously unrecognized Ca2+-binding motifs in virus proteins. Many of these proteins are nonstructural proteins, a class of proteins among which Ca2+ interactions had not been formerly appreciated. The presence of linear Ca2+-binding motifs in viral proteins enlarges the spectrum of Ca2+–virus interplay and expands the total scenario of viral calciomics.
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- Yubin Zhou
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, 50 Decatur St., Atlanta, GA 30303 USA
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Dormitzer PR, Ulmer JB, Rappuoli R. Structure-based antigen design: a strategy for next generation vaccines. Trends Biotechnol 2008; 26:659-67. [PMID: 18977045 PMCID: PMC7114313 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2008] [Revised: 08/29/2008] [Accepted: 08/29/2008] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Vaccine design is progressing from empiricism towards the increasingly rational presentation of the targets of protective immunity. Nevertheless, most current vaccine antigens are essentially the native macromolecules of pathogens. These molecules are adapted to evade, not induce, immunity. High resolution structures reveal the electrostatic surfaces recognized by neutralizing antibodies and the architectures underlying these surfaces, thereby identifying which substructures must be left intact and which can be changed to optimize biochemical and immunologic performance. Armed with detailed structural information, we can engineer optimized antigens that are more stable, homogeneous, and efficiently produced, making immunization more practical and affordable. Understanding the structural basis for immunogenicity and immunodominance will allow us to improve vaccine efficacy and broaden the range of vaccine-preventable diseases.
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- Philip R Dormitzer
- Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., 350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Endoplasmic reticulum chaperones are involved in the morphogenesis of rotavirus infectious particles. J Virol 2008; 82:5368-80. [PMID: 18385250 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02751-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The final assembly of rotavirus particles takes place in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In this work, we evaluated by RNA interference the relevance to rotavirus assembly and infectivity of grp78, protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), grp94, calnexin, calreticulin, and ERp57, members of the two ER folding systems described herein. Silencing the expression of grp94 and Erp57 had no effect on rotavirus infectivity, while knocking down the expression of any of the other four chaperons caused a reduction in the yield of infectious virus of about 50%. In grp78-silenced cells, the maturation of the oligosaccharide chains of NSP4 was retarded. In cells with reduced levels of calnexin, the oxidative folding of VP7 was impaired and the trimming of NSP4 was accelerated, and in calreticulin-silenced cells, the formation of disulfide bonds of VP7 was also accelerated. The knockdown of PDI impaired the formation and/or rearrangement of the VP7 disulfide bonds. All these conditions also affected the correct assembly of virus particles, since compared with virions from control cells, they showed an altered susceptibility to EGTA and heat treatments, a decreased specific infectivity, and a diminished reactivity to VP7 with monoclonal antibody M60, which recognizes only this protein when its disulfide bonds have been correctly formed. In the case of grp78-silenced cells, the virus produced bound less efficiently to MA104 cells than virus obtained from control cells. All these results suggest that these chaperones are involved in the quality control of rotavirus morphogenesis. The complexity of the steps of rotavirus assembly that occur in the ER provide a useful model for studying the organization and operation of the complex network of chaperones involved in maintaining the quality control of this organelle.
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Chami M, Oulès B, Paterlini-Bréchot P. Cytobiological consequences of calcium-signaling alterations induced by human viral proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2006; 1763:1344-62. [PMID: 17059849 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2006] [Revised: 09/13/2006] [Accepted: 09/15/2006] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Since calcium-signaling regulates specific and fundamental cellular processes, it represents the ideal target of viral proteins, in order for the virus to control cellular functions and favour its persistence, multiplication and spread. A detailed analysis of reports focused on the impact of viral proteins on calcium-signaling has shown that virus-related elevations of cytosolic calcium levels allow increased viral protein expression (HIV-1, HSV-1/2), viral replication (HBx, enterovirus 2B, HTLV-1 p12(I), HHV-8, EBV), viral maturation (rotavirus), viral release (enterovirus 2B) and cell immortalization (EBV). Interestingly, virus-induced decreased cytosolic calcium levels have been found to be associated with inhibition of immune cells functions (HIV-1 Tat, HHV-8 K15, EBV LMP2A). Finally, several viral proteins are able to modulate intracellular calcium-signaling to control cell viability (HIV-1 Tat, HTLV-1 p13(II), HCV core, HBx, enterovirus 2B, HHV-8 K7). These data point out calcium-signaling as a key cellular target for viral infection and should stimulate further studies exploring new calcium-related therapeutic strategies.
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Trask SD, Dormitzer PR. Assembly of highly infectious rotavirus particles recoated with recombinant outer capsid proteins. J Virol 2006; 80:11293-304. [PMID: 16971442 PMCID: PMC1642144 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01346-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Assembly of the rotavirus outer capsid is the final step of a complex pathway. In vivo, the later steps include a maturational membrane penetration that is dependent on the scaffolding activity of a viral nonstructural protein. In vitro, simply adding the recombinant outer capsid proteins VP4 and VP7 to authentic double-layered rotavirus subviral particles (DLPs) in the presence of calcium and acidic pH increases infectivity by a factor of up to 10(7), yielding particles as infectious as authentic purified virions. VP4 must be added before VP7 for high-level infectivity. Steep dependence of infectious recoating on VP4 concentration suggests that VP4-VP4 interactions, probably oligomerization, precede VP4 binding to particles. Trypsin sensitivity analysis identifies two populations of VP4 associated with recoated particles: properly mounted VP4 that can be specifically primed by trypsin, and nonspecifically associated VP4 that is degraded by trypsin. A full complement of properly assembled VP4 is not required for efficient infectivity. Minimal dependence of recoating on VP7 concentration suggests that VP7 binds DLPs with high affinity. The parameters for efficient recoating and the characterization of recoated particles suggest a model in which, after a relatively weak interaction between oligomeric VP4 and DLPs, VP7 binds the particles and locks VP4 in place. Recoating will allow the use of infectious modified rotavirus particles to explore rotavirus assembly and cell entry and could lead to practical applications in novel immunization strategies.
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- Shane D Trask
- Children's Hospital, Enders 673, 320 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Yoder JD, Dormitzer PR. Alternative intermolecular contacts underlie the rotavirus VP5* two- to three-fold rearrangement. EMBO J 2006; 25:1559-68. [PMID: 16511559 PMCID: PMC1440311 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2005] [Accepted: 02/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The spike protein VP4 is a key component of the membrane penetration apparatus of rotavirus, a nonenveloped virus that causes childhood gastroenteritis. Trypsin cleavage of VP4 produces a fragment, VP5*, with a potential membrane interaction region, and primes rotavirus for cell entry. During entry, the part of VP5* that protrudes from the virus folds back on itself and reorganizes from a local dimer to a trimer. Here, we report that a globular domain of VP5*, the VP5* antigen domain, is an autonomously folding unit that alternatively forms well-ordered dimers and trimers. Because the domain contains heterotypic neutralizing epitopes and is soluble when expressed directly, it is a promising potential subunit vaccine component. X-ray crystal structures show that the dimer resembles the spike body on trypsin-primed virions, and the trimer resembles the folded-back form of the spike. The same structural elements pack differently to form key intermolecular contacts in both oligomers. The intrinsic molecular property of alternatively forming dimers and trimers facilitates the VP5* reorganization, which is thought to mediate membrane penetration during cell entry.
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- Joshua D Yoder
- Program in Virology, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in Virology, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Ruiz MC, Díaz Y, Peña F, Aristimuño OC, Chemello ME, Michelangeli F. Ca2+ permeability of the plasma membrane induced by rotavirus infection in cultured cells is inhibited by tunicamycin and brefeldin A. Virology 2005; 333:54-65. [PMID: 15708592 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2004] [Revised: 11/18/2004] [Accepted: 12/05/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Rotavirus infection of cultured cells induces a progressive increase in plasma membrane permeability to Ca2+. The viral product responsible for this effect is not known. We have used tunicamycin and brefeldin A to prevent glycosylation and membrane traffic and study the involvement of viral glycoproteins, NSP4 and/or VP7, in rotavirus-infected HT29 and MA104 cells. In infected cells, we observed an increase of plasma membrane Ca2+ permeability and a progressive depletion of agonist-releasable ER pools measured with fura 2 and an enhancement of total Ca2+ content measured as 45Ca2+ uptake. Tunicamycin inhibited the increase in membrane Ca2+ permeability, induced a depletion of agonist-releasable and 45Ca2+-sequestered pools. Brefeldin A inhibited the increase of Ca2+ permeability and the increase in 45Ca2+ uptake induced by infection. We propose that the glycosylated viral product NSP4 (and/or VP7) travels to the plasma membrane to form a Ca2+ channel and hence elevate Ca2+ permeability.
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- Marie Christine Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela.
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Jayaram H, Estes MK, Prasad BVV. Emerging themes in rotavirus cell entry, genome organization, transcription and replication. Virus Res 2004; 101:67-81. [PMID: 15010218 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2003.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Rotaviruses, causative agents of gastroenteritis in young animals and humans, are large icosahedral viruses with a complex architecture. The double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome composed of 11 segments, which codes for 6 structural and 6 non-structural proteins, is enclosed within three concentric capsid layers. In addition to facilitating host-specific interactions, the design of the capsid architecture in rotaviruses as in other dsRNA viruses should also be conducive to the requirement of transcribing the enclosed genome segments repeatedly and simultaneously within the capsid interior. Several non-structural proteins facilitate the subsequent processes of genome replication and packaging. Electron cryomicroscopy studies of intact virions, recombinant virus-like particles, functional complexes, together with recent X-ray crystallographic studies on rotavirus proteins have provided structural insights into the capsid architecture, genome organization, antibody interaction, cell entry, trypsin-enhanced infectivity, endogenous transcription and replication. These studies underscore contrasting features and unifying themes between rotavirus and other dsRNA viruses.
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- Hariharan Jayaram
- Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Golantsova NE, Gorbunova EE, Mackow ER. Discrete domains within the rotavirus VP5* direct peripheral membrane association and membrane permeability. J Virol 2004; 78:2037-44. [PMID: 14747568 PMCID: PMC369428 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.4.2037-2044.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Cleavage of the rotavirus spike protein, VP4, is required for rotavirus-induced membrane permeability and viral entry into cells. The VP5* cleavage product selectively permeabilizes membranes and liposomes and contains an internal hydrophobic domain that is required for membrane permeability. Here we investigate VP5* domains (residues 248 to 474) that direct membrane binding. We determined that expressed VP5 fragments containing residues 248 to 474 or 265 to 474, including the internal hydrophobic domain, bind to cellular membranes but are not present in Triton X-100-resistant membrane rafts. Expressed VP5 partitions into aqueous but not detergent phases of Triton X-114, suggesting that VP5 is not integrally inserted into membranes. Since high-salt or alkaline conditions eluted VP5 from membranes, our findings demonstrate that VP5 is peripherally associated with membranes. Interestingly, mutagenesis of residue 394 (W-->R) within the VP5 hydrophobic domain, which abolishes VP5-directed permeability, had no effect on VP5's peripheral membrane association. In contrast, deletion of N-terminal VP5 residues (residues 265 to 279) abolished VP5 binding to membranes. Alanine mutagenesis of two positively charged residues within this domain (residues 274R and 276K) dramatically reduced (>95%) binding of VP5 to membranes and suggested their potential interaction with polar head groups of the lipid bilayer. Mutations in either the VP5 hydrophobic or basic domain blocked VP5-directed permeability of cells. These findings indicate that there are at least two discrete domains within VP5* required for pore formation: an N-terminal basic domain that permits VP5* to peripherally associate with membranes and an internal hydrophobic domain that is essential for altering membrane permeability. These results provide a fundamental understanding of interactions between VP5* and the membrane, which are required for rotavirus entry.
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- Nina E Golantsova
- Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA
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Pesavento JB, Billingsley AM, Roberts EJ, Ramig RF, Prasad BVV. Structures of rotavirus reassortants demonstrate correlation of altered conformation of the VP4 spike and expression of unexpected VP4-associated phenotypes. J Virol 2003; 77:3291-6. [PMID: 12584352 PMCID: PMC149743 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.5.3291-3296.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Numerous prior studies have indicated that viable rotavirus reassortants containing structural proteins of heterologous parental origin may express unexpected phenotypes, such as changes in infectivity and immunogenicity. To provide a structural basis for alterations in phenotypic expression, a three-dimensional structural analysis of these reassortants was conducted. The structures of the reassortants show that while VP4 generally maintains the parental structure when moved to a heterologous protein background, in certain reassortants, there are subtle alterations in the conformation of VP4. The alterations in VP4 conformation correlated with expression of unexpected VP4-associated phenotypes. Interactions between heterologous VP4 and VP7 in reassortants expressing unexpected phenotypes appeared to induce the conformational alterations seen in VP4.
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- Joseph B Pesavento
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Chang KO, Vandal OH, Yuan L, Hodgins DC, Saif LJ. Antibody-secreting cell responses to rotavirus proteins in gnotobiotic pigs inoculated with attenuated or virulent human rotavirus. J Clin Microbiol 2001; 39:2807-13. [PMID: 11473996 PMCID: PMC88243 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.39.8.2807-2813.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2001] [Accepted: 05/13/2001] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Because of their similarities to infants in mucosal immune responses and their susceptibility to human rotavirus (HRV) diarrhea, gnotobiotic pigs provide a useful model for rotaviral disease. In this study, we performed quantitative enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) assays to measure local and systemic isotype-specific antibody-secreting cell (ASC) responses to individual structural (VP4, VP6, and VP7) and nonstructural (NSP3 and NSP4) proteins of Wa HRV. The Spodoptera frugiperda cells expressing each recombinant baculovirus HRV protein were formalin fixed and used as antigen for ELISPOT assays. Neonatal gnotobiotic pigs were orally inoculated once with virulent Wa (WaV) or three times with attenuated Wa (WaA) HRV or mock inoculated (Mock) and then were challenged with virulent Wa (WaV/PC) 28 days after the first inoculation. The ASCs from intestinal and systemic lymphoid tissues of pigs from each group were quantitated by ELISPOT assay at the day of challenge, at postinoculation day 28 (WaV, WaA, and Mock) or at postchallenge day (PCD) 7 (WaV+WaV/PC, WaA+WaV/PC, and Mock+WaV/PC). In all virus-inoculated pigs, regardless of the inoculum, lymphoid tissue, or isotype, VP6 induced the highest numbers of ASCs, followed by VP4; ASCs specific for VP7, NSP3, and NSP4 were less numerous. At challenge, total HRV- and HRV protein-specific immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG ASCs in intestinal lymphoid tissues were significantly greater in WaV- than in WaA-inoculated pigs, and WaV pigs were fully protected against diarrhea postchallenge, whereas the WaA pigs were partially protected. At PCD 7, there were no significant differences in ASC numbers for any HRV proteins between the WaV+WaV/PC and WaA+WaV/PC groups.
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- K O Chang
- Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center/The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA
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Dormitzer PR, Greenberg HB, Harrison SC. Purified recombinant rotavirus VP7 forms soluble, calcium-dependent trimers. Virology 2000; 277:420-8. [PMID: 11080489 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Rotavirus is a major cause of severe, dehydrating childhood diarrhea. VP7, the rotavirus outer capsid glycoprotein, is a target of protective antibodies and is responsible for the calcium-dependent uncoating of the virus during cell entry. We have purified, characterized, and crystallized recombinant rhesus rotavirus VP7, expressed in insect cells. A critical aspect of the purification is the elution of VP7 from a neutralizing monoclonal antibody column by EDTA. Gel filtration chromatography and equilibrium analytical ultracentrifugation demonstrate that, in the presence of calcium, purified VP7 trimerizes. Trimeric VP7 crystallizes into hexagonal plates. Preliminary X-ray analysis suggests that the crystal packing reproduces the hexagonal component of the icosahedral lattice of VP7 on triple-layered rotavirus particles. These data indicate that the rotavirus outer capsid assembles from calcium-dependent VP7 trimers and that dissociation of these trimers is the biochemical basis for EDTA-induced rotavirus uncoating and loss of VP7 neutralizing epitopes.
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- P R Dormitzer
- Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Enders 673, Children's Hospital, 320 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Ruiz MC, Cohen J, Michelangeli F. Role of Ca2+in the replication and pathogenesis of rotavirus and other viral infections. Cell Calcium 2000; 28:137-49. [PMID: 11020376 DOI: 10.1054/ceca.2000.0142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Ca2+ plays a key role in many pathological processes, including viral infections. Rotavirus, the major etiological agent of viral gastroenteritis in children and young animals, provides a useful model to study a number of Ca2+ dependent virus-cell interactions. Rotavirus entry, activation of transcription, morphogenesis, cell lysis, particle release, and the distant action of viral proteins are Ca2+ dependent processes. In the extracellular medium, Ca2+ stabilizes the structure of the viral capsid. During entry into the cell the low cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration induced the solubilization of the outer protein layer of the capsid and transcriptase activation. Viral protein synthesis modifies Ca2+ homeostasis which, in turn, favours viral morphogenesis and induces cell death. The generation of diarrhea is a multifactorial process involving Ca2+ dependent secretory processes of mediators and water and electrolytes, as well as the induction of cell death in the different cell types that compose the intestinal epithelium. The discovery of the non-structural viral protein NSP4 as a viral enterotoxin and the possible participation of the enteric nervous system in the pathogenesis of diarrhea represent significant advances in its understanding. Ca2+ also plays a role in the replication cycles and pathogenesis of other viral diseases such as poliovirus, Coxsackie virus, cytomegalovirus, vaccinia and measles virus and HIV.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Centro de Biofísica y Bioquímica, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) Caracas, Venezuela
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Mirazimi A, Svensson L. ATP is required for correct folding and disulfide bond formation of rotavirus VP7. J Virol 2000; 74:8048-52. [PMID: 10933714 PMCID: PMC112337 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.17.8048-8052.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rotavirus is one of very few viruses that utilize the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) for assembly, and therefore it has been used as an attractive model to study ER-associated protein folding. In this study, we have examined the requirements for metabolic energy (ATP) for correct folding of the luminal and ER-associated VP7 of rotavirus. We found that VP7 rapidly misfolds in an energy-depleted milieu and is not degraded within 60 min. We also found that VP7 attained a stable minimum-energy state soon after translation in the ER. Most surprisingly, energy-misfolded VP7 could be recovered and establish correct disulfide bonds and antigenicity following a shift to an ATP-rich milieu. Using a Semliki Forest virus expression system, we observed that VP7 requires ATP and cellular, but not viral, factors for correct disulfide bond formation. Our results show for the first time that the disulfide bond formation of rotavirus VP7 is an ATP-dependent process. It has previously been shown that chaperones hydrolyze ATP during interaction with newly synthesized polypeptides and prevent nonproductive intra- and intermolecular interactions. The most reasonable explanation for the energy requirement of VP7 is thus a close interaction during folding with an ATP-dependent chaperone, such as BiP (Grp78), and possibly with protein disulfide isomerase. Taken together, our observations provide new information about folding of ER-associated proteins in general and rotavirus VP7 in particular.
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- A Mirazimi
- Department of Virology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Karolinska Institute, 171 82 Solna, Sweden
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Dowling W, Denisova E, LaMonica R, Mackow ER. Selective membrane permeabilization by the rotavirus VP5* protein is abrogated by mutations in an internal hydrophobic domain. J Virol 2000; 74:6368-76. [PMID: 10864647 PMCID: PMC112143 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.14.6368-6376.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Rotavirus infectivity is dependent on the proteolytic cleavage of the VP4 spike protein into VP8* and VP5* proteins. Proteolytically activated virus, as well as expressed VP5*, permeabilizes membranes, suggesting that cleavage exposes a membrane-interactive domain of VP5* which effects rapid viral entry. The VP5* protein contains a single long hydrophobic domain (VP5*-HD, residues 385 to 404) at an internal site. In order to address the role of the VP5*-HD in permeabilizing cellular membranes, we analyzed the entry of o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG) into cells induced to express VP5* or mutated VP5* polypeptides. Following IPTG (isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside) induction, VP5* and VP5* truncations containing the VP5*-HD permeabilized cells to the entry and cleavage of ONPG, while VP8* and control proteins had no effect on cellular permeability. Expression of VP5* deletions containing residues 265 to 474 or 265 to 404 permeabilized cells; however, C-terminal truncations which remove the conserved GGA (residues 399 to 401) within the HD abolished membrane permeability. Site-directed mutagenesis of the VP5-HD further demonstrated a requirement for residues within the HD for VP5*-induced membrane permeability. Functional analysis of mutant VP5*s indicate that conserved glycines within the HD are required and suggest that a random coiled structure rather than the strictly hydrophobic character of the domain is required for permeability. Expressed VP5* did not alter bacterial growth kinetics or lyse bacteria following induction. Instead, VP5*-mediated size-selective membrane permeability, releasing 376-Da carboxyfluorescein but not 4-kDa fluorescein isothiocyanate-dextran from preloaded liposomes. These findings suggest that the fundamental role for VP5* in the rotavirus entry process may be to expose triple-layered particles to low [Ca](i), which uncoats the virus, rather than to effect the detergent-like lysis of early endosomal membranes.
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- W Dowling
- Department of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8173, USA
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Ahmadian S, Shahrabadi MS. Morphological study of the role of calcium in the assembly of the rotavirus outer capsid protein VP7. Biotech Histochem 1999; 74:266-73. [PMID: 10711507 DOI: 10.3109/10520299909034663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Maturation of rotavirus occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a site of intracellular calcium storage. It was demonstrated previously that calcium plays an important role in the maturation of bovine rotavirus. We used protein A colloidal gold conjugated to an antibody to localize VP7, the outer capsid protein of the simian rotavius SA11, in permeabilized infected cells in the presence and absence of calcium in the culture medium. In medium containing calcium, VP7 was associated with nonenveloped double-shelled particles and membranous structures of the ER. In calcium-free medium, gold particles were not associated with the ER or with virus particles. Gold particles were distributed through the cytoplasm and were mainly associated with granular structures, but did not assemble onto virus particles. Our data suggest that in calcium-free medium, VP7 is synthesized, but does not remain incorporated, in the ER.
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- S Ahmadian
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Iran.
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Mirazimi A, Nilsson M, Svensson L. The molecular chaperone calnexin interacts with the NSP4 enterotoxin of rotavirus in vivo and in vitro. J Virol 1998; 72:8705-9. [PMID: 9765412 PMCID: PMC110284 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.11.8705-8709.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Calnexin is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated molecular chaperone proposed to promote folding and assembly of glycoproteins that traverse the secretory pathway in eukaryotic cells. In this study we examined if calnexin interacts with the ER-associated luminal (VP7) and transmembrane (NSP4) proteins of rotavirus. Only glycosylated NSP4 interacted with calnexin and did so in a time-dependent manner (half-life, 20 min). In vitro translation experiments programmed with gene 10 of rhesus rotavirus confirmed that calnexin recognizes only glycosylated NSP4. Castanospermine (a glucosidase I and II inhibitor) experiments established that calnexin associates only with partly deglucosylated (di- or monoglucosylated) NSP4. Furthermore, enzymatic removal of the remaining glucose residues on the N-linked glycan units was essential to disengage the NSP4-calnexin complex. Novel experiments with castanospermine revealed that glucose trimming and the calnexin-NSP4 interaction were not critical for the assembly of infectious virus.
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- A Mirazimi
- Department of Virology, SMI/Karolinska Institute, 105 21 Stockholm, Sweden
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Mirazimi A, Svensson L. Carbohydrates facilitate correct disulfide bond formation and folding of rotavirus VP7. J Virol 1998; 72:3887-92. [PMID: 9557673 PMCID: PMC109613 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.5.3887-3892.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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It is well established that glycosylation is essential for assembly of enveloped viruses, but no information is yet available as to the function of carbohydrates on the nonenveloped but glycosylated rotavirus. We show that tunicamycin and, more pronouncedly, a combination of tunicamycin and brefeldin A treatment caused misfolding of the luminal VP7 protein, leading to interdisulfide bond aggregation. While formation of VP7 aggregates could be prevented under reducing conditions, they reoccurred in less than 30 min after a shift to an oxidizing milieu. Furthermore, while glycosylated VP7 interacted during maturation with protein disulfide isomerase, nonglycosylated VP7 did not, suggesting that glycosylation is a prerequisite for protein disulfide isomerase interaction. While native NSP4, which does not possess S-S bonds, was not dependent on N-linked glycosylation or on protein disulfide isomerase assistance for maturation, nonglycosylated NSP4 was surprisingly found to interact with protein disulfide isomerase, further suggesting that protein disulfide isomerase can act both as an enzyme and as a chaperone. In conclusion, our data suggest that the major function of carbohydrates on VP7 is to facilitate correct disulfide bond formation and protein folding.
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- A Mirazimi
- Department of Virology, SMI/Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Gajardo R, Vende P, Poncet D, Cohen J. Two proline residues are essential in the calcium-binding activity of rotavirus VP7 outer capsid protein. J Virol 1997; 71:2211-6. [PMID: 9032355 PMCID: PMC191328 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.3.2211-2216.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Rotavirus maturation and stability of the outer capsid are calcium-dependent processes. It has been shown previously that the concentration of Ca2+-solubilizing outer capsid proteins from rotavirus particles is dependent on the virus strain. This property of viral particles has been associated with the gene coding for VP7 (gene 9). In this study the correlation between VP7 and resistance to low [Ca2+] was confirmed by analyzing the origin of gene 9 from reassortant viruses prepared under the selective pressure of low [Ca2+]. After chemical mutagenesis, we selected mutant viruses of the bovine strain RF that are more resistant to low [Ca2+]. The genes coding for the VP7 proteins of these independent mutants have been sequenced. Sequence analysis confirmed that these mutants are independent and revealed that all mutant VP7 proteins have proline 75 changed to leucine and have an outer capsid that solubilized at low [Ca2+]. The mutation of proline 279 to serine is found in all but two mutants. The phenotype of mutants having a single proline change can be distinguished from the phenotype of mutants having two proline changes. Sequence analysis showed that position 75 is in a region (amino acids 65 to 78) of great variability and that proline 75 is present in most of the bovine strains. In contrast, proline 279 is in a conserved region and is conserved in all the VP7 sequences in data banks. This region is rich in oxygenated residues that are correctly allocated in the metal-coordinating positions of the Ca2+-binding EF-hand structure pattern, suggesting that this region is important in the Ca2+ binding of VP7.
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- R Gajardo
- Laboratoire de Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, INRA, C.R.J., Domaine de Vilvert, France
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Emslie KR, Coukell MB, Birch D, Williams KL. Calcium influences the stability and conformation of rotavirus SA11 glycoprotein VP7 expressed in Dictyostelium discoideum. J Biotechnol 1996; 50:149-59. [PMID: 8987623 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1656(96)01557-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We have previously reported expression of the rotavirus outer capsid glycoprotein, VP7, in the relatively new expression host, Dictyostelium discoideum. To optimise yields of recombinant VP7, we examined the role of Ca2+ since stability of both VP7 and mature rotavirus during a rotavirus infection are calcium-dependent. Low micromolar levels of free extracellular Ca2+ were required to maximise yields of VP7 in D. discoideum whilst levels of VP7 were reduced following depletion of intracellular Ca2+ reserves using A23187 and EGTA. Immunoblot analysis suggested that VP7 was being degraded in an intracellular compartment. Immunoprecipitation with a conformation-dependent neutralising antibody confirmed that EGTA-induced Ca2+ chelation alters the conformation of VP7. These results suggest that stability of VP7 is dependent on maintaining adequate levels of intracellular Ca2+ and that conformational changes in VP7 which occur following depletion of Ca2+ reserves induce rapid proteolysis of the protein. Since these results establish conditions for expressing optimal levels of VP7 in the correct conformation they have important implications for the development of a subunit vaccine based on recombinant VP7.
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- K R Emslie
- MUCAB (Macquarie University Centre for Analytical Biotechnology), School of Biological sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
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Ruiz MC, Charpilienne A, Liprandi F, Gajardo R, Michelangeli F, Cohen J. The concentration of Ca2+ that solubilizes outer capsid proteins from rotavirus particles is dependent on the strain. J Virol 1996; 70:4877-83. [PMID: 8763990 PMCID: PMC190437 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.8.4877-4883.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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It has been previously shown that rotavirus maturation and stability of the outer capsid are calcium-dependent processes. More recently, it has been hypothesized that penetration of the cell membrane is also affected by conformational changes of the capsid induced by Ca2+. In this study, we determined quantitatively the critical concentration of calcium ion that leads to solubilization of the outer capsid proteins VP4 and VP7. Since this critical concentration is below or close to trace levels of Ca2+, we have used buffered solutions based on ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA) and Ca-EGTA. This method allowed us to show a very high variability of the free [Ca2+] needed to stabilize, at room temperature, the outer capsid of several rotavirus strains. This concentration is about 600 nM for the two bovine strains tested (RF and UK), 100 nM for the porcine strain OSU, and only 10 to 20 nM for the simian strain SA11. Titration of viral infectivity after incubation in buffer of defined [Ca2+] confirmed that the loss of infectivity occurs at different [Ca2+] for these three strains. For the bovine strain, the cleavage of VP4 by trypsin has no significant effect on the [Ca2+] that solubilizes outer shell proteins. The outer layer (VP7) of virus-like particles (VLP) made of recombinant proteins VP2, VP6, and VP7 (VLP2/6/7) was also solubilized by lowering the [Ca2+]. The critical concentration of Ca2+ needed to solubilize VP7 from VLP2/6/7 made of protein from the bovine strain is close to the concentration needed for the corresponding virus. Genetic analysis of this phenotype in a set of reassortant viruses from two parental strains having the phenotypes of strains OSU (porcine) and UK (bovine) confirmed that this property of viral particles is probably associated with the gene coding for VP7. The analysis of VLP by reverse genetics might allow the identification of the region(s) essential for calcium binding.
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- M C Ruiz
- Laboratorio de Fisiologia Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Ishida S, Feng N, Tang B, Gilbert JM, Greenberg HB. Quantification of systemic and local immune responses to individual rotavirus proteins during rotavirus infection in mice. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:1694-700. [PMID: 8784572 PMCID: PMC229097 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.7.1694-1700.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The purpose of the present study was to develop a quantitative assay that could be used to measure the local and systemic immune responses to specific rotavirus proteins following rotavirus infection of adult mice. To measure these responses, we used an immunocytochemical staining assay of Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf-9) cells which were infected with recombinant baculovirus expressing selected rotavirus proteins. The specificity of the assay was documented by using a series of monoclonal antibodies to individual rotavirus proteins. We observed that the assay had high levels of sensitivity and specificity for a series of VP7- and VP4-specific neutralizing monoclonal antibodies which recognized conformation-dependent epitopes on their target proteins. We also studied immunoglobulin G (IgG) immune responses in serum and IgA immune responses in the stools of mice infected with wild-type murine rotavirus strain EHPw. In both sera and stools, the most immunogenic proteins were VP6 and VP4. VP2 was less immunogenic than VP6 or VP4, and the immune responses to VP7, NSP2, and NSP4 were very low in serum and undetectable in stools.
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- S Ishida
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA
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Tian P, Ball JM, Zeng CQ, Estes MK. Rotavirus protein expression is important for virus assembly and pathogenesis. ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY. SUPPLEMENTUM 1996; 12:69-77. [PMID: 9015103 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6553-9_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Rotaviruses have a unique morphogenesis in which particles obtain a transient membrane-envelope as newly made subviral particles bud into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This process is mediated by a viral nonstructural glycoprotein, NSP4. We have found that NSP4 has pleiotropic properties that became evident following expression of this protein in eukaryotic cells. NSP4 expressed in insect cells bound double-layered rotavirus particles in a manner similar to receptor-ligand interactions and this interaction is thought to trigger the particle budding process. Expression of NSP4 in insect cells also increases intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) levels and this effect may explain the toxicity of this protein in eukaryotic cells. Increases in [Ca2+]i levels in insect cells also are observed following exogenous addition to cells of purified NSP4 or of a synthetic peptide of NSP4. Experiments to determine the mechanism by which NSP4 causes an increase in [Ca2+]i showed that Ca2+ is released from a subset of the thapsigargin-sensitive store [endoplasmic reticulum (ER)]. However, exogenously added and endogenously expressed NSP4 use different mechanisms to alter the Ca2+ permeability of the ER membrane. We hypothesize that NSP4-mediated changes in ER membrane permeability trigger viral budding into the lumen of the ER, and eventually induce cell death and release of virus particles from infected cells. We also propose that release of NSP4 following cell lysis and the concomitant stimulation of a Ca2+ signal transduction pathway in neighboring cells contributes to altered ion transport in intestinal epithelium resulting in diarrheal disease.
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- P Tian
- Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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Falconer MM, Gilbert JM, Roper AM, Greenberg HB, Gavora JS. Rotavirus-induced fusion from without in tissue culture cells. J Virol 1995; 69:5582-91. [PMID: 7637004 PMCID: PMC189413 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.9.5582-5591.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We present the first evidence of fusion from without induced in tissue culture cells by a nonenveloped virus. Electron micrographs of two strains of rotavirus, bovine rotavirus C486 and rhesus rotavirus, show that virally mediated cell-cell fusion occurs within 1 h postinfection. Trypsin activation is necessary for rotavirus to mediate cell-cell fusion. The extent of fusion is relative to the amount of virus used, and maximum fusion occurs between pHs 6.5 and 7.5. Fusion does not require virus-induced protein synthesis, as virus from both an empty capsid preparation and from an EDTA-treated preparation, which is noninfectious, can induce fusion. Incubation of rotavirus with neutralizing and nonneutralizing monoclonal antibodies before addition to cells indicates that viral protein 4 (VP4; in the form of VP5* and VP8*) and VP7 are involved in fusion. Light and electron micrographs document this fusion, including the formation of pores or channels between adjacent fused cells. These data support direct membrane penetration as a possible route of infection. Moreover, the assay should be useful in determining the mechanisms of cell entry by rotavirus.
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- M M Falconer
- Centre for Food and Animal Research, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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Tian P, Estes MK, Hu Y, Ball JM, Zeng CQ, Schilling WP. The rotavirus nonstructural glycoprotein NSP4 mobilizes Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum. J Virol 1995; 69:5763-72. [PMID: 7637021 PMCID: PMC189437 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.9.5763-5772.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We previously reported that expression of rotavirus nonstructural glycoprotein NSP4 is responsible for an increase in cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) insect cells (P. Tian, Y. Hu, W. P. Schilling, D. A. Lindsay, J. Eiden, and M. K. Estes, J. Virol. 68:251-257, 1994). The purpose of the present study was to determine the mechanism by which NSP4 causes an increase in [Ca2+]i by measuring the permeability of the cytoplasmic and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes in recombinant-baculovirus-infected Sf9 cells. No obvious change in plasmalemma permeability to divalent cations was observed in cells expressing NSP4 compared with that in cells expressing another rotaviral glycoprotein (VP7) when the influx of Ba2+, a Ca2+ surrogate, was monitored. The basal Ca2+ permeability of the internal Ca2+ store was evaluated by measuring the release of Ca2+ induced by ionomycin, a Ca2+ ionophore, or thapsigargin, an inhibitor of the ER Ca(2+)-ATPase pump, following suspension of the cells in Ca(2+)-free extracellular buffer. Releasable Ca2+ decreased with time to a greater extent in cells expressing NSP4 compared with that in cells expressing VP7, suggesting that NSP4 increases the basal Ca2+ permeability of the ER membrane. To determine the possible mechanism by which NSP4 increases ER permeability, purified NSP4 protein or a 22-amino-acid synthetic peptide consisting of residues 114 to 135 (NSP4(114-135) was added exogenously to noninfected Sf9 cells during measurement of [Ca2+]i. Both NSP4 and the NSP4(114-135 peptide produced a time-dependent increase in [Ca2+]i that was attenuated by prior inhibition of phospholipase C with U-73122. Pretreatment of the cells with thapsigargin completely blocked the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by NSP4(114-135, but the peptide only partially reduced the change in [Ca2+]i produced by thapsigargin. No changes in [Ca2+]i were seen in cells treated with control peptides. These results suggest that (i) exogenous NSP4 increases [Ca2+]i through the activation of phospholipase C, (ii) Ca2+ release by exogenous NSP4 is from a store that is a subset of the thapsigargin-sensitive compartment, and (iii) amino acid residues 114 to 135 of NSP4 are sufficient for this activity. In contrast to exogenous NSP4, the mechanism by which endogenously expressed NSP4 increases [Ca2+]1 appears to be unrelated to phospholipase C, since no effect of U-73122 was seen on the elevated [Ca2+]1 in cells expressing NSP4 and exogenously applied NSP4(114-135) caused a further increase in [Ca2+]1 in cells expressing NSP4 protein.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- P Tian
- Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Michelangeli F, Liprandi F, Chemello ME, Ciarlet M, Ruiz MC. Selective depletion of stored calcium by thapsigargin blocks rotavirus maturation but not the cytopathic effect. J Virol 1995; 69:3838-47. [PMID: 7745732 PMCID: PMC189102 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.6.3838-3847.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Rotavirus matures inside the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a site of intracellular calcium storage. Total cell Ca2+ depletion has been shown to impair virus maturation, arresting this process at the membrane-enveloped intermediate form following its budding into the ER. On the other hand, rotavirus infection leads to an increase in the internal Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) and sequestered Ca2+ pools. We have used thapsigargin, an inhibitor of the Ca(2+)-ATPase of the ER, to release stored Ca2+ and to study its role in rotavirus morphogenesis and cytopathic effect. Thapsigargin (0.1 to 1 microM) released stored Ca2+ from MA-104 cells, as measured by chlorotetracycline fluorescence. The concentration of cytoplasmic Ca2+, measured with fura2, increased in infected cells whether treated or not with thapsigargin. Infectivity was decreased dose dependently by thapsigargin (3 log units at 0.25 to 1 microM). In infected cells treated with thapsigargin, glycosylation of VP7 and NS28 was inhibited. Electron microscopy of infected cells treated with thapsigargin showed normal synthesis of viroplasm. However, only membrane-enveloped, not double-shelled, particles could be observed within the ER. The conformation of VP7 in infected cells treated with thapsigargin appeared to be altered, as suggested by decreased immunofluorescence reactivity with monoclonal antibodies to highly conformation-dependent VP7 epitopes. The progression of cell death in infected cells, as measured by penetration of ethidium bromide, was not affected by thapsigargin. These results indicate that rotavirus maturation depends on a high sequestered [Ca2+], specifically in the ER. Cell death is the result of the accumulation of a viral product and is not related to the production of infective particles. This viral product(s) may be responsible for the increase in [Ca2+]i, which in turn leads to cell death.
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- F Michelangeli
- Laboratorio de Fisiología Gastrointestinal, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Emslie KR, Miller JM, Slade MB, Dormitzer PR, Greenberg HB, Williams KL. Expression of the rotavirus SA11 protein VP7 in the simple eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum. J Virol 1995; 69:1747-54. [PMID: 7853513 PMCID: PMC188780 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.3.1747-1754.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The outer capsid protein of rotavirus, VP7, is a major neutralization antigen and is considered a necessary component of any subunit vaccine developed against rotavirus infection. For this reason, significant effort has been directed towards producing recombinant VP7 that maintains the antigenic characteristics of the native molecule. Using a relatively new expression system, the simple eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum, we have cloned the portion of simian rotavirus SA11 genome segment 9, encoding the mature VP7 protein, downstream of a native D. discoideum secretion signal sequence in a high-copy-number extrachromosomal vector. The majority of the recombinant VP7 expressed by transformants was intracellular and was detected by Western immunoblot following gel electrophoresis as two or three bands with an apparent molecular mass of 35.5 to 37.5 kDa. A small amount of VP7 having an apparent molecular mass of 37.5 kDa was secreted. Both the intracellular VP7 and the secreted VP7 were N glycosylated and sensitive to endoglycosidase H digestion. Under nonreducing electrophoresis conditions, over half the intracellular VP7 migrated as a monomer while the remainder migrated with an apparent molecular mass approximately twice that of the monomeric form. In an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, intracellular VP7 reacted with both nonneutralizing and neutralizing antibodies. The monoclonal antibody recognition pattern paralleled that found with VP7 expressed in either vaccinia virus or herpes simplex virus type 1 and confirms that D. discoideum-expressed VP7 is able to form the major neutralization domains present on viral VP7. Because D. discoideum cells are easy and cheap to grow, this expression system provides a valuable alternative for the large-scale production of recombinant VP7 protein.
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- K R Emslie
- School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Crawford SE, Labbé M, Cohen J, Burroughs MH, Zhou YJ, Estes MK. Characterization of virus-like particles produced by the expression of rotavirus capsid proteins in insect cells. J Virol 1994; 68:5945-52. [PMID: 8057471 PMCID: PMC237000 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.9.5945-5952.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Rotaviruses are triple-layered particles that contain four major capsid proteins, VP2, VP4, VP6, and VP7, and two minor proteins, VP1 and VP3. We have cloned each of the rotavirus genes coding for a major capsid protein into the baculovirus expression system and expressed each protein in insect cells. Coexpression of different combinations of the rotavirus major structural proteins resulted in the formation of stable virus-like particles (VLPs). The coexpression of VP2 and VP6 alone or with VP4 resulted in the production of VP2/6 or VP2/4/6 VLPs, which were similar to double-layered rotavirus particles. Coexpression of VP2, VP6, and VP7, with or without VP4, produced triple-layered VP2/6/7 or VP2/4/6/7 VLPs, which were similar to native infectious rotavirus particles. The VLPs maintained the structural and functional characteristics of native particles, as determined by electron microscopic examination of the particles, the presence of nonneutralizing and neutralizing epitopes on VP4 and VP7, and hemagglutination activity of the VP2/4/6/7 VLPs. The production of VP2/4/6 particles indicated that VP4 interacts with VP6. Cell binding assays performed with each of the VLPs indicated that VP4 is the viral attachment protein. Chimeric particles containing VP7 from two different G serotypes also were obtained. The ability to express individual proteins or to coexpress different subsets of proteins provides a system with which to examine the interactions of the rotavirus structural proteins, the role of individual proteins in virus morphogenesis, and the feasibility of a subunit vaccine.
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- S E Crawford
- Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Svensson L, Dormitzer PR, von Bonsdorff CH, Maunula L, Greenberg HB. Intracellular manipulation of disulfide bond formation in rotavirus proteins during assembly. J Virol 1994; 68:5204-15. [PMID: 8035518 PMCID: PMC236464 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.8.5204-5215.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Rotavirus undergoes a unique mode of assembly in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) of infected cells. Luminal RER proteins undergo significant cotranslational and posttranslational modifications, including disulfide bond formation. Addition of a reducing agent (dithiothreitol [DTT]) to rotavirus-infected cells did not significantly inhibit translation or disrupt established disulfide bonds in rotavirus proteins but prevented the formation of new disulfide bonds and infectious viral progeny. In DTT-treated, rotavirus-infected cells, all vp4, vp6, and ns28 epitopes but no vp7 epitopes were detected by immunohistochemical staining with a panel of monoclonal antibodies. When oxidizing conditions were reestablished in DTT-treated cells, intramolecular disulfide bonds in vp7 were rapidly and correctly established with the restoration of antigenicity, although prolonged DTT treatment led to the accumulation of permanently misfolded vp7. Electron microscopy revealed that cytosolic assembly of single-shelled particles and budding into the ER was not affected by DTT treatment but that outer capsid assembly was blocked, leading to the accumulation of single-shelled and enveloped intermediate subviral particles in the RER lumen.
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- L Svensson
- Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University Medical Center, California 94305
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- Y Hoshino
- Epidemiology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Tian P, Hu Y, Schilling WP, Lindsay DA, Eiden J, Estes MK. The nonstructural glycoprotein of rotavirus affects intracellular calcium levels. J Virol 1994; 68:251-7. [PMID: 8254736 PMCID: PMC236284 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.1.251-257.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Rotavirus infection of monkey kidney cells has been reported to result in a significant increase in the concentration of intracellular calcium. This increase in intracellular calcium was associated with viral protein synthesis and cytopathic effects in infected cells. We tested the effect of individual rotavirus proteins on intracellular calcium concentrations in insect Spodoptera frugiperda (Sf9) cells. Insect cells were infected with wild-type baculovirus or baculovirus recombinants that contained an individual rotavirus gene. The cells were harvested at different times postinfection, and the intracellular calcium concentration was measured by using fura-2 as a fluorescent calcium indicator. We found that the concentration of intracellular calcium was increased nearly fivefold in infected Sf9 cells that expressed the nonstructural glycoprotein (NSP4) of group A rotavirus, and this increase in intracellular calcium concentration coincided with NSP4 expression. A similar result was observed in insect cells expressing NSP4 from a group B rotavirus, suggesting the conservation of this function among rotavirus groups. Expression of the other 10 rotavirus proteins or of wild-type baculovirus proteins in Sf9 cells did not significantly increase intracellular calcium levels. These results suggest that the nonstructural glycoprotein NSP4 is responsible for the increase in cytosolic calcium observed in rotavirus-infected cells.
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- P Tian
- Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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