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Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 2331-2336, Vol. 75, No. 5
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.5.2331-2336.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Human Papillomavirus Type 16 Minor Capsid Protein L2 N-Terminal Region Containing a Common Neutralization Epitope Binds to the Cell Surface and Enters the Cytoplasm

Yukiko Kawana,1,2 Kei Kawana,1,2 Hiroyuki Yoshikawa,2 Yuji Taketani,2 Kunito Yoshiike,1 and Tadahito Kanda1,*

Division of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640,1 and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033,2 Japan

Received 24 August 2000/Accepted 29 November 2000

The first step of papillomavirus infection is believed to be binding of major capsid protein L1 to the cell surface without involvement of minor capsid protein L2, but the viral infectivity can be neutralized either by anti-L1 or anti-L2 antibody. To understand the role of L2 in human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, we examined a segment of HPV type 16 (HPV16) L2, which contains a neutralization epitope common to HPV6, for its involvement in adsorption and penetration of the capsids. Preincubation of monkey COS-1 cells with a synthetic peptide having amino acids (aa) 108 to 120 of HPV16 L2 reduced the susceptibility of COS-1 cells to infection with HPV16 pseudovirions. Confocal microscopy showed that the green fluorescence protein (GFP) fused with the L2 peptide was found to bind to the surface of a HeLa cell, an HPV18-positive human cancer cell line, at 4°C and to enter the cytoplasm after subsequent incubation at 37°C. Flow cytometry showed that fused GFP did not bind to HeLa cells that had been treated with trypsin. Besides COS-1 and HeLa cells, some human and rodent cell lines were detected by flow cytometry to be susceptible to binding with fused GFP, showing a tendency of epithelial cells toward higher susceptibility. Substitutions at aa 108 to 111 inhibited fused GFP from binding to HeLa cells and reduced the infectivity in COS-1 cells of the in vitro-constructed pseudovirions. The results suggest that L2 plays an important role in enhancing HPV infection through interaction between the N-terminal region and a cellular surface protein, facilitating penetration of the virions and determining part of the tropism of HPVs.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. Phone: (81)-3-5285-1111, ext. 2524. Fax: (81)-3-5285-1166. E-mail: kanda{at}nih.go.jp.

Journal of Virology, March 2001, p. 2331-2336, Vol. 75, No. 5
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.5.2331-2336.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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