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Journal of Virology, December 1998, p. 9978-9985, Vol. 72, No. 12
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Structure and Glycosylation Patterns of Surface Proteins from Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus

Tanja K. Tolle,1 Dieter Glebe,1 Monica Linder,2 Dietmar Linder,2 Sigrid Schmitt,2 Rudolf Geyer,2 and Wolfram H. Gerlich2,*

Institute of Medical Virology1 and Institute of Biochemistry,2 Clinicum and Medical School of Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Received 5 June 1998/Accepted 20 August 1998

Woodchucks chronically infected with woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) are a valuable model for human hepatitis B virus (HBV) in studies of pathogenesis, immunity, and antiviral therapy. For this reason, substantial efforts to characterize both the similarities and the differences between HBV and WHV are being made. The structure of the WHV surface proteins (WHs proteins) has not yet been adequately elucidated. The bands that would be expected for glycosylated and nonglycosylated small (S) WHs protein are found by sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis of purified WHs protein, but the bands corresponding to the middle (M) and large (L) WHs proteins of HBV are not seen at the expected sizes, even though the sequences of the WHV and HBV surface protein genes are 60% homologous. By amino-terminal sequencing we have identified two bands at 41 and 45 kDa as the MWHs proteins, 8 kDa larger than expected. We have also confirmed that two bands at 24 and 27 kDa are SWHs proteins. A protein of 49 kDa was blocked at the N terminus, which using immunoblotting with an antiserum against WHV pre-S1 (positions 126 to 146) was identified, together with a part of the 45-kDa protein, as glycosylated and nonglycosylated LWHs protein of the expected size. Sialidase and O-glycosidase digestion showed that the larger size of MWHs protein results from the presence of O glycoside groups which are probably in the pre-S2 domain of MWHs protein. Since the pre-S2 domains of HBV and WHV have similar numbers of potential O glycosylation sites, it appears to be likely that the glycosyltransferases act differently on the viral proteins in woodchucks and humans.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Medical Virology, Frankfurter Strasse 107, D 35392 Giessen, Germany. Phone: 49-641-99 41200. Fax: 49-641-99 41209. E-mail: wolfram.h.gerlich{at}viro.med.uni-giessen.de.

Journal of Virology, December 1998, p. 9978-9985, Vol. 72, No. 12
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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