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J Virol. 1986 May; 58(2): 281-289

Molecular basis of the glycoprotein C-negative phenotypes of herpes simplex virus type 1 mutants selected with a virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibody.

ABSTRACT

Previously (Holland et al., J. Virol. 52:566-574, 1984; Kikuchi et al., J. Virol. 52:806-815, 1984) we described the isolation and partial characterization of over 100 herpes simplex virus type 1 mutants which were resistant to neutralization by a pool of glycoprotein C- (gC) specific monoclonal antibodies. The genetic basis for the inability of several of these gC- mutants to express an immunoreactive envelope form of gC is reported here. Comparative nucleotide sequence analysis of the gC gene of the six mutants gC-3, gC-8, gC-49, gC-53, gC-85, and synLD70, which secrete truncated gC polypeptides, with that of the wild-type KOS 321 gC gene revealed that these mutant phenotypes were caused by frameshift or nonsense mutations, resulting in premature termination of gC translation. Secretion of the gC polypeptide from cells infected with these mutants was due to the lack of a functional transmembrane anchor sequence. The six secretor mutants were tested for suppression of amber mutations in mixed infection with a simian virus 40 amber suppressor vector. Mutant gC-85 was suppressed and produced a wild-type-sized membrane-bound gC. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the six gC deletion mutants gC-5, gC-13, gC-21, gC-39, gC-46, and gC-98 revealed that they carried identical deletions which removed 1,702 base pairs of the gC gene. The deletion, which was internal to the gC gene, removed the entire gC coding sequence and accounted for the novel 1.1-kilobase mRNA previously seen in infections with these mutants. The mutant gC-44 was previously shown to produce a membrane-bound gC protein indistinguishable in molecular weight from wild-type gC. This mutant differed from wild-type virus in that it had reduced reactivity with virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the gC gene of mutant gC-44 demonstrated a point mutation which changed amino acid 329 of gC from a serine to a phenylalanine.

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