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J Virol. 1991 May; 65(5): 2283-2289

African swine fever virus attachment protein.

Centro de Biología Molecular (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias, Spain.

ABSTRACT

Treatment of African swine fever virus particles with nonionic detergents released proteins p35, p17, p14, and p12 from the virion. Of these proteins, only p12 bound to virus-sensitive Vero cells but not to virus-resistant L or IBRS2 cells. The binding of p12 was abolished by whole African swine fever virus and not by similar concentrations of subviral particles that lacked the external proteins. A monoclonal antibody (24BB7) specific for p12 precipitated a protein that, when analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the absence of 2-mercaptoethanol, showed a molecular mass of 17 kDa (p17*) instead of 12 kDa as found in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol. The relationship between these two proteins was confirmed by the conversion of p17* to p12 when the former was isolated from polyacrylamide gels in the absence of 2-mercaptoethanol and subsequently treated with the reducing agent. The supernatant obtained after immunoprecipitation with the p12-specific antibody lacked the virus-binding protein.

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