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Journal of Virology, March 2007, p. 2418-2428, Vol. 81, No. 5
0022-538X/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.02146-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The Cytoplasmic Tail of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein Contains a Novel Endoplasmic Reticulum Retrieval Signal That Binds COPI and Promotes Interaction with Membrane Protein{triangledown}

Corrin E. McBride,{dagger} Jie Li,{dagger},{ddagger} and Carolyn E. Machamer*

Department of Cell Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205

Received 29 September 2006/ Accepted 5 December 2006

Like other coronaviruses, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS CoV) assembles at and buds into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC). Accumulation of the viral envelope proteins at this compartment is a prerequisite for virus assembly. Previously, we reported the identification of a dibasic motif (KxHxx) in the cytoplasmic tail of the SARS CoV spike (S) protein that was similar to a canonical dilysine ER retrieval signal. Here we demonstrate that this motif is a novel and functional ER retrieval signal which reduced the rate of traffic of the full-length S protein through the Golgi complex. The KxHxx motif also partially retained two different reporter proteins in the ERGIC region and reduced their rates of trafficking, although the motif was less potent than the canonical dilysine signal. The dibasic motif bound the coatomer complex I (COPI) in an in vitro binding assay, suggesting that ER retrieval may contribute to the accumulation of SARS CoV S protein near the virus assembly site for interaction with other viral structural proteins. In support of this, we found that the dibasic motif on the SARS S protein was required for its localization to the ERGIC/Golgi region when coexpressed with SARS membrane (M) protein. Thus, the cycling of SARS S through the ER-Golgi system may be required for its incorporation into assembling virions in the ERGIC.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Cell Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205. Phone: (410) 955-1809. Fax: (410) 955-4129. E-mail: machamer{at}jhmi.edu.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 13 December 2006.

{dagger} These authors contributed equally to this work.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287.

Journal of Virology, March 2007, p. 2418-2428, Vol. 81, No. 5
0022-538X/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.02146-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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