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Journal of Virology, September 2002, p. 9271-9283, Vol. 76, No. 18
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.18.9271-9283.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Truncation of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Glycoprotein B Increases Its Cell Surface Expression and Activity in Cell-Cell Fusion, but These Properties Are Unrelated

Zhenghong Fan, Michael L. Grantham, M. Shane Smith, Eric S. Anderson, James A. Cardelli, and Martin I. Muggeridge*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130

Received 31 October 2001/ Accepted 11 January 2002

Formation of small polykaryons by cell-cell fusion is characteristic of herpes simplex virus (HSV) lesions, but the great majority of viruses isolated from such lesions produce only limited cell fusion in tissue culture. Because of this, HSV laboratory strains that produce extensive cell fusion (syncytium formation) in culture are regarded as variants or mutants. Furthermore, the rarity of clinical isolates able to produce syncytia in culture suggests that extensive cell fusion is deleterious in vivo. Mutations that confer a syncytial phenotype can then be regarded as bypassing a mechanism that normally limits cell fusion. Determination of how these mutations, some of which are in the cytoplasmic tail of glycoprotein B (gB), lead to syncytium formation will likely reveal how fusion is controlled. Here we show the following. (i) Truncation of the cytoplasmic tail of HSV type 2 gB (gB-2) by a minimum of 25 residues or a maximum of 49 residues produces a syncytial phenotype. (ii) Truncation by 20 to 49 residues increases cell fusion when gB-2 is coexpressed with only gD-2, gH-2, and gL-2. (iii) Truncation by 25 or more residues removes a potential endocytosis motif and increases gB-2 cell surface expression. (iv) Mutation of this motif increases gB-2 cell surface expression but does not increase fusogenic activity, whereas mutation of another potential endocytosis motif does not increase surface expression but does increase fusogenic activity. Therefore, syncytial mutations in the cytoplasmic tail of gB-2 do not act by increasing cell surface levels of the protein.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA 71130. Phone: (318) 675-7571. Fax: (318) 675-5764. E-mail: mmugge{at}lsuhsc.edu.

Journal of Virology, September 2002, p. 9271-9283, Vol. 76, No. 18
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.18.9271-9283.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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