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Journal of Virology, June 2003, p. 7041-7047, Vol. 77, No. 12
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.12.7041-7047.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Interactions of Rotavirus VP4 Spike Protein with the Endosomal Protein Rab5 and the Prenylated Rab Acceptor PRA1

Vincent Enouf,1 Serge Chwetzoff,2 Germain Trugnan,2 and Jean Cohen1*

Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, UMR CNRS-INRA 2472, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette,1 INSERM U538, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, 75012 Paris, France2

Received 17 September 2002/ Accepted 27 March 2003

Rotavirus spike protein VP4 is implicated in several important functions, such as cell attachment, penetration, hemagglutination, neutralization, virulence, and host range. It is present at the plasma membrane and colocalizes with the cytoskeleton in infected cells. We looked for cellular partners responsible for the localization of VP4 by two-hybrid screening of a monkey CV1 cell cDNA library. In the screen we isolated repeatedly three cDNAs encoding either two isoforms (a and c) of Rab5 protein or the prenylated Rab acceptor (PRA1). The small GTPase Rab5 is a molecule regulating the vesicular traffic and the motility of early endosomes along microtubules. Rab5 interacts with a large number of effectors, in particular with PRA1. Interactions of VP4 with both partners, Rab5 and PRA1, were confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation from infected- or transfected-cell lysates. Interaction of Rab5 and PRA1 was restricted to free VP4, since neither triple-layered particles nor NSP4-VP4-VP7 heterotrimeric complexes could be coprecipitated. Site-directed and deletion mutants of VP4 were used to map a VP4 domain(s) interacting with Rab5 or PRA1. Of the 10 mutants tested, 2 interacted exclusively with a single partner. In contrast, the domain extending from amino acids 560 to 722 of VP4 is essential for both interactions. These results suggest that Rab5 and PRA1 may be involved in the localization and trafficking of VP4 in infected cells.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, UMR CNRS-INRA 2472, Avenue de la Terrasse, F-91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Phone: 33(0)169823854. Fax: 33(0)169824308. E-mail: cohen{at}gv.cnrs-gif.fr.

Journal of Virology, June 2003, p. 7041-7047, Vol. 77, No. 12
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.12.7041-7047.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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