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Journal of Virology, March 2004, p. 3063-3071, Vol. 78, No. 6
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.6.3063-3071.2004
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Identification and Characterization of Viral Structural Proteins of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus

Section for Fish Health, National Veterinary Institute, Oslo,¹ Department of Fisheries and Marine Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway,² Institute of Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg, Austria³

Received 21 September 2003/ Accepted 24 November 2003

Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) is an unclassified Orthomyxovirus that has been shown to contain a segmented genome with eight single-stranded RNA species coding for 10 viral proteins. Four major structural proteins were characterized in the present study: two glycosylated proteins with estimated molecular masses of 42 and 50 kDa, one 66-kDa phosphoprotein, and one 22-kDa protein. Examination of lysed virions revealed the two glycoproteins and the 22-kDa protein in the soluble fraction, while the 66-kDa phosphoprotein and a minor part of the 22-kDa protein were found in the pelleted fraction. Immunofluorescence staining of infected cells demonstrated that the 22-kDa protein was a late protein accumulating in the nucleus. We conclude that the 66-kDa protein is the nucleoprotein, the 22-kDa protein is the matrix protein, and the 42- and 50-kDa proteins are the surface proteins. Radioimmunoprecipitation analysis of the 42-kDa glycoprotein, which was previously shown to represent the ISAV hemagglutinin, indicated that this protein exists at least as dimers. Further, by labeling of purified ISAV with [1,3-³H]diisopropyl fluorophosphate, it was also demonstrated that the viral esterase is located with the hemagglutinin. This finding was confirmed by demonstration of acetylesterase activity in affinity-purified hemagglutinin preparations. Finally, the active-site serine residue could be tentatively identified at position 32 within the amino acid sequence of the hemagglutinin of ISAV strain Glesvaer/2/90. It is proposed that the ISAV vp66 protein be termed nucleoprotein, the gp42 protein be termed HE protein, and the vp22 protein be termed matrix protein.

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