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J Virol, June 1998, p. 5215-5223, Vol. 72, No. 6
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

The Major Structural Protein of African Swine Fever Virus, p73, Is Packaged into Large Structures, Indicative of Viral Capsid or Matrix Precursors, on the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Christian Cobbold and Thomas Wileman*

Division of Immunology, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Surrey, England

Received 9 January 1998/Accepted 18 March 1998

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large enveloped DNA virus that shares the striking icosahedral symmetry of iridoviruses. To understand the mechanism of assembly of ASFV, we have been studying the biosynthesis and subcellular distribution of p73, the major structural protein of ASFV. Sucrose density sedimentation of lysates prepared from infected cells showed that newly synthesized p73 was incorporated into a complex with a size of 150 to 250 kDa. p73 synthesized by in vitro translation migrated at 70 kDa, suggesting that cellular and/or viral proteins are required for the formation of the 150- to 250-kDa complex. During a 2-h chase, approximately 50% of the newly synthesized pool of p73 bound to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). During this period, the membrane-bound pool of p73, but not the cytosolic pool, formed large complexes of approximately 50,000 kDa. The complexes were formed via assembly intermediates, and the entire membrane-associated pool of p73 was incorporated into the 50,000-kDa complex within 2 h. The 50,000-kDa complexes containing p73 were also detected in virions secreted from cells. Immunoprecipitation of sucrose gradients with sera taken from hyperimmune pigs suggested that p73 was the major component of the 50,000-kDa complex. It is possible, therefore, that the complex contains between 600 and 700 copies of p73. The kinetics of complex formation and envelopment of p73 were similar, and complex formation and envelopment were both reversibly inhibited by cycloheximide, suggesting a functional link between complex assembly and ASFV envelopment. A protease protection assay detected 50,000-kDa complexes on the inside and outside of the membranes forming the viral envelope. The identification of a complex containing p73 beneath the envelope of ASFV suggests that p73 may be a component of the inner core shell or matrix of ASFV. The outer pool may represent p73 within the outer capsid layer of the virus. In summary, the data suggest that the assembly of the inner core matrix and outer capsid of ASFV takes place on the ER membrane during envelopment and that these structures are not preassembled in the cytosol.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Immunology, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Surrey, England GU24 ONF. Phone: 01483 232441. Fax: 01483 232448. E-mail: thomas.wileman{at}bbsrc.ac.uk.

J Virol, June 1998, p. 5215-5223, Vol. 72, No. 6
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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