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J. Virol., 08 1996, 5541-5547, Vol 70, No. 8
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

Disulfide bridge-mediated folding of Sindbis virus glycoproteins

M Carleton and DT Brown
The Cell Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 78713-7640, USA.

The Sindbis virus envelope is composed of 80 E1-E2 (envelope glycoprotein) heterotrimers organized into an icosahedral protein lattice with T=4 symmetry. The structural integrity of the envelope protein lattice is maintained by E1-E1 interactions which are stabilized by intramolecular disulfide bonds. Structural domains of the envelope proteins sustain the envelope's icosahedral lattice, while functional domains are responsible for virus attachment and membrane fusion. We have previously shown that within the mature Sindbis virus particle, the structural domains of the envelope proteins are significantly more resistant to the membrane-permeative, sulfhydryl- reducing agent dithiothreitol (DTT) than are the functional domains (R. P. Anthony, A. M. Paredes, and D. T. Brown, Virology 190:330-336, 1992). We have used DTT to probe the accessibility of intramolecular disulfides within PE2 (the precursor to E2) and E1, as these proteins fold and are assembled into the spike heterotrimer. We have determined through pulse-chase analysis that intramolecular disulfide bonds within PE2 are always sensitive to DTT when the glycoproteins are in the endoplasmic reticulum. The reduction of these disulfides results in the disruption of PE2-E1 associations. E1 acquires increased resistance to DTT as it folds through a series of disulfide intermediates (E1alpha, - beta, and -gamma) prior to assuming its native and most compact conformation (E1epsilon). The transition from a DTT-sensitive form into a form which exhibits increased resistance to DTT occurs after E1 has folded into its E1beta conformation and correlates temporally with the dissociation of BiP-E1 complexes and the formation of PE2-E1 heterotrimers. We propose that the disulfide bonds within E1 which stabilize the protein domains required for maintaining the structural integrity of the envelope protein lattice form early within the folding pathway of E1 and become inaccessible to DTT once the heterotrimer has formed.


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