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J Virol. 1967 February; 1(1): 181-192
Copyright © 1967 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Cellular Compartmentalization of Herpesvirus Antigens During Viral Replication

Department of Microbiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Department of Virus Research, Microbiological Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland

ABSTRACT

HEp-2 cells infected with herpes simplex virus develop five distinct immunofluorescent elements. Three (small nuclear granules, large nuclear granules, and an amorphous mass filling the nucleus) contain antigens which react with a rabbit serum prepared against boiled infected cell debris. A labeled pool of human antibody revealed antigens making up cytoplasmic granules and those responsible for a diffuse cytoplasmic fluorescence. All five immunofluorescent elements are demonstrable with a rabbit serum prepared against unheated infected cell debris. Viral antigens are segregated in the nucleus or in the cytoplasm; within the limits of detection, each antigen accumulates in one compartment only. The antigens responsible for the diffuse cytoplasmic fluorescence and for the amorphous nuclear mass are synthesized early in infection; they are formed in arginine-deprived cells and exist in a form which does not sediment on centrifugation at 79,000 x g for 2 hr. The antigens comprising the nuclear and cytoplasmic granules arise relatively late in infection; they are not formed in arginine-deprived cells, and they are readily sedimented on centrifugation at 79,000 x g for 2 hr. Heating (60 C for 2 hr) confers on one or more cytoplasmic viral antigens a new specificity; the altered antigens are demonstrable with labeled rabbit anti-boiled infected cell serum which normally does not combine with cytoplasmic antigens.