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Journal of Virology, August 2001, p. 7528-7542, Vol. 75, No. 16
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Received 23 February 2001/Accepted 8 May 2001
The wrapping of intracellular mature vaccinia virions by modified
trans-Golgi or endosomal cisternae to form intracellular enveloped virions is dependent on at least two viral proteins encoded
by the B5R and F13L open reading frames. B5R is a type I integral
membrane glycoprotein, whereas F13L is an unglycosylated, palmitylated protein with a motif that is conserved in a superfamily of
phospholipid-metabolizing enzymes. Microscopic visualization of the
F13L protein was achieved by fusing it to the enhanced green
fluorescent protein (GFP). F13L-GFP was functional when expressed by a
recombinant vaccinia virus in which it replaced the wild-type F13L gene
or by transfection of uninfected cells with a plasmid vector followed
by infection with an F13L deletion mutant. In uninfected or infected
cells, F13L-GFP was associated with Golgi cisternae and post-Golgi
vesicles containing the LAMP 2 late endosomal-lysosomal marker.
Association of F13L-GFP with vesicles was dependent on an intact
phospholipase catalytic motif and sites of palmitylation. The B5R
protein was also associated with LAMP2-containing vesicles when
F13L-GFP was coexpressed, but was largely restricted to Golgi cisternae
in the absence of F13L-GFP or when the F13L moiety was mutated. We
suggest that the F13L protein, like its human phospholipase D homolog,
regulates vesicle formation and that this process is involved in
intracellular enveloped virion membrane formation.
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.16.7528-7542.2001
Vaccinia Virus F13L Protein with a Conserved Phospholipase
Catalytic Motif Induces Colocalization of the B5R Envelope
Glycoprotein in Post-Golgi Vesicles
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