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Journal of Virology, July 2000, p. 6600-6613, Vol. 74, No. 14
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Trafficking of Varicella-Zoster Virus Glycoprotein gI:
T338-Dependent Retention in the trans-Golgi
Network, Secretion, and Mannose 6-Phosphate-Inhibitable Uptake of
the Ectodomain
Zuo-Hong
Wang,1
Michael D.
Gershon,2
Octavian
Lungu,3
Zhenglun
Zhu,2,
and
Anne A.
Gershon4,*
Institute of Human
Nutrition1 and Departments of Anatomy & Cell Biology,2
Microbiology,3 and
Pediatrics,4 Columbia University College
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032
Received 3 February 2000/Accepted 25 April 2000
The trans-Golgi network (TGN) is putatively the site
where varicella-zoster virus is enveloped. gE is targeted to the TGN by
selective retrieval from the plasmalemma in response to signaling sequences in its endodomain. gI lacks these sequences but forms a
complex with gE. We now find that gI is targeted to the TGN and plasma
membrane when expressed in Cos-7 cells; nevertheless, surface labeling
revealed that gI is not retrieved from the plasma membrane. TGN
targeting of gI depended on the T338 of its endodomain and
was lost when T338 was deleted or mutated to A, S, or D. The endodomain of gI was sufficient, if it contained T338,
to target a fusion protein containing the ectodomain of the human
interleukin-2 receptor to the TGN. A truncated protein consisting only
of the gI ectodomain was secreted and taken up by nontransfected cells.
This uptake of the secreted gI ectodomain was blocked by mannose
6-phosphate. Following cotransfection, both gI and gE were retrieved to
the TGN from the plasma membrane in 26.7% of cells, neither gI nor gE
was internalized in 18.3%, and gE was retrieved to the TGN while gI
remained at the plasma membrane in 55%. We suggest that the
T338 of its endodomain is necessary to retain gI in the
TGN; moreover, because gI and gE interact, the signaling sequences of
each glycoprotein reinforce one another in ensuring that both
glycoproteins are concentrated in the TGN yet remain on the cell surface.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of
Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 West 168th St., New York, NY 10032. Phone: (212) 305-9445. Fax: (212)
342-5218. E-mail: aag1{at}columbia.edu.

Present address: Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
Boston,
Mass.
Journal of Virology, July 2000, p. 6600-6613, Vol. 74, No. 14
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