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Journal of Virology, March 2002, p. 2654-2666, Vol. 76, No. 6
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.6.2654-2666.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Repression of African Swine Fever Virus Polyprotein pp220-Encoding Gene Leads to the Assembly of Icosahedral Core-Less Particles

Germán Andrés,* Ramón García-Escudero, María L. Salas, and Javier M. Rodríguez

Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Received 11 October 2001/ Accepted 13 December 2001

African swine fever virus (ASFV) polyprotein pp220, encoded by the CP2475L gene, is an N-myristoylated precursor polypeptide that, after proteolytic processing, gives rise to the major structural proteins p150, p37, p34, and p14. These proteins localize at the core shell, a matrix-like virus domain placed between the DNA-containing nucleoid and the inner envelope. In this study, we have examined the role of polyprotein pp220 in virus morphogenesis by means of an ASFV recombinant, v220i, containing an inducible copy of the CP2475L gene regulated by the Escherichia coli repressor-operator system. Under conditions that repress pp220 expression, the virus yield of v220i was about 2.6 log units lower than that of the parental virus or of the recombinant grown under permissive conditions. Electron microscopy revealed that pp220 repression leads to the assembly of icosahedral particles virtually devoid of the core structure. Analysis of recombinant v220i by immunoelectron microscopy, immunoblotting, and DNA hybridization showed that mutant particles essentially lack, besides the pp220-derived products, a number of major core proteins as well as the viral DNA. On the other hand, transient expression of the CP2475L gene in COS cells showed that polyprotein pp220 assembles into electron-dense membrane-bound coats, whereas a mutant nonmyristoylated version of pp220 does not associate with cellular membranes but forms large cytoplasmic aggregates. Together, these findings indicate that polyprotein pp220 is essential for the core assembly and suggest that its myristoyl moiety may function as a membrane-anchoring signal to bind the developing core shell to the inner viral envelope.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. Phone: 34 91 397 84 38. Fax: 34 91 397 47 99. E-mail: gandres{at}cbm.uam.es.

Journal of Virology, March 2002, p. 2654-2666, Vol. 76, No. 6
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.6.2654-2666.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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