J. Virol., Feb 1996, 985-991, Vol 70, No. 2
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

Recovery and characterization of a replicase complex in rotavirus- infected cells by using a monoclonal antibody against NSP2

C Aponte, D Poncet and J Cohen
Laboratoire de Virologie et Immunologie Moleculaires, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France.

Replication of the rotavirus genome involves two steps: (i) transcription and extrusion of transcripts and (ii) minus-strand RNA synthesis in viral complexes containing plus-strand RNA. In this study, we showed evidence for the importance of the viral nonstructural protein of rotavirus, NSP2, in the replication of viral RNAs. RNA- binding properties of NSP2 were tested by UV cross-linking in vivo (in rotavirus-infected MA104 cells and recombinant baculovirus-expressing NSP2-infected Sf9 cells). In rotavirus-infected cells, NSP2 is bound to the 11 double-stranded RNA genomic segments of rotavirus. Quantitative analysis (using hydrolysis by RNase A) is consistent with NSP2 being directly bound to partially replicated viral RNA. Using various monoclonal antibodies and specific antisera against the structural (VP1, VP2, and VP6) and nonstructural (NSP1, NSP2, NSP3, and NSP5) proteins, we developed a solid-phase assay for the viral replicase. In this test, we recovered a viral RNA-protein complex with replicase activity only with a monoclonal antibody directed against NSP2. Our results indicated that these viral complexes contain the structural proteins VP1, VP2, and VP6 and the nonstructural protein NSP2. Our results show that NSP2 is closely associated in vivo with the viral replicase.

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