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J Virol, May 1998, p. 4022-4031, Vol. 72, No. 5
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Two Types of Virus-Related Particles Are Found during Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus Morphogenesis

Cristina Risco,1 María Muntión,2 Luis Enjuanes,2 and José L. Carrascosa1,*

Departments of Macromolecular Structure1 and Molecular and Cell Biology,2 Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Received 11 November 1997/Accepted 3 February 1998

The intracellular assembly of the transmissible gastroenteritis coronavirus (TGEV) was studied in infected swine testis (ST) cells at different postinfection times by using ultrathin sections of conventionally embedded infected cells, freeze-substitution, and methods for detecting viral proteins and RNA at the electron microscopy level. This ultrastructural analysis was focused on the identification of the different viral components that assemble in infected cells, in particular the spherical, potentially icosahedral internal core, a new structural element of the extracellular infectious coronavirus recently characterized by our group. Typical budding profiles and two types of virion-related particles were detected in TGEV-infected cells. While large virions with an electron-dense internal periphery and a clear central area are abundant at perinuclear regions, smaller viral particles, with the characteristic morphology of extracellular virions (exhibiting compact internal cores with polygonal contours) accumulate inside secretory vesicles that reach the plasma membrane. The two types of virions coexist in the Golgi complex of infected ST cells. In nocodazole-treated infected cells, the two types of virions coexist in altered Golgi stacks, while the large secretory vesicles filled with virions found in normal infections are not detected in this case. Treatment of infected cells with the Golgi complex-disrupting agent brefeldin A induced the accumulation of large virions in the cisternae that form by fusion of different membranous compartments. These data, together with the distribution of both types of virions in different cellular compartments, strongly suggest that the large virions are the precursors of the small viral particles and that their transport through a functional Golgi complex is necessary for viral maturation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Macromolecular Structure, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 341-5854509. Fax: 341-5854506. E-mail: jlcarrascosa{at}cnb.uam.es.

J Virol, May 1998, p. 4022-4031, Vol. 72, No. 5
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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