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Journal of Virology, May 2004, p. 4827-4837, Vol. 78, No. 9
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.9.4827-4837.2004

Norwalk Virus N-Terminal Nonstructural Protein Is Associated with Disassembly of the Golgi Complex in Transfected Cells

Virneliz Fernandez-Vega,1 Stanislav V. Sosnovtsev,1 Gaël Belliot,1 Adriene D. King,1 Tanaji Mitra,1 Alexander Gorbalenya,2 and Kim Y. Green1*

Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland,1 Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands2

Received 19 September 2003/ Accepted 23 December 2003

Norwalk virus is the prototype strain for members of the genus Norovirus in the family Caliciviridae, which are associated with epidemic gastroenteritis in humans. The nonstructural protein encoded in the N-terminal region of the first open reading frame (ORF1) of the Norwalk virus genome is analogous in gene order to proteins 2A and 2B of the picornaviruses; the latter is known for its membrane-associated activities. Confocal microscopy imaging of cells transfected with a vector plasmid that provided expression of the entire Norwalk virus N-terminal protein (amino acids 1 to 398 of the ORF1 polyprotein) showed colocalization of this protein with cellular proteins of the Golgi apparatus. Furthermore, this colocalization was characteristically associated with a visible disassembly of the Golgi complex into discrete aggregates. Deletion of a predicted hydrophobic region (amino acids 360 to 379) in a potential 2B-like (2BL) region (amino acids 301 to 398) near the C terminus of the Norwalk virus N-terminal protein reduced Golgi colocalization and disassembly. Confocal imaging was conducted to examine the expression characteristics of fusion proteins in which the 2BL region from the N-terminal protein of Norwalk virus (a genogroup I norovirus) or MD145 (a genogroup II norovirus) was fused to the C terminus of enhanced green fluorescent protein. Expression of each fusion protein in cells showed evidence for its colocalization with the Golgi apparatus. These data indicate that the N-terminal protein of Norwalk virus interacts with the Golgi apparatus and may play a 2BL role in the induction of intracellular membrane rearrangements associated with positive-strand RNA virus replication in cells.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Institutes of Health, Building 50, Room 6318, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: (301) 594-1665. Fax: (301) 480-5031. E-mail: kgreen{at}niaid.nih.gov.

Journal of Virology, May 2004, p. 4827-4837, Vol. 78, No. 9
0022-538X/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.9.4827-4837.2004




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