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J. Virol., 06 1997, 4838-4841, Vol 71, No. 6
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Bovine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein B does not productively interact with cell surface heparan sulfate in a pseudorabies virion background

BG Klupp, A Karger and TC Mettenleiter
Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals, Insel Riems, Germany.

Attachment to cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans is the first step in infection by several alphaherpesviruses. This interaction is primarily mediated by virion glycoprotein C (gC). In herpes simplex virus, in the absence of the nonessential gC, heparan sulfate binding is effected by glycoprotein B. In contrast, gC-negative pseudorabies virus (PrV) infects target cells via a heparan sulfate-independent mechanism, indicating that PrV virion gB does not productively interact with heparan sulfate. To assay whether a heterologous alphaherpesvirus gB protein will confer productive heparan sulfate binding on gC- negative PrV, gC was deleted from an infectious PrV recombinant, PrV- 9112C2, which expresses bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) gB instead of PrV gB. Our data show that gC-negative PrV-BHV-1 gB recombinant 9112C2- delta gCbeta was not inhibited in infection by soluble heparin, in contrast to the gC-positive parental strain. Similar results were obtained when wild-type BHV-1 was compared with a gC-negative BHV-1 mutant. Moreover, infection of cells proficient or deficient in heparan sulfate biosynthesis occurred with equal efficiency by PrV-9112C2-delta gCbeta, whereas heparan sulfate-positive cells showed an approximately fivefold higher plating efficiency than heparan sulfate-negative cells with the parental gC-positive virus. In summary, our data show that in a PrV gC-negative virion background, BHV-1 gB is not able to mediate infection by productive interaction with heparan sulfate, and they indicate the same lack of heparin interaction for BHV-1 gB in gC- negative BHV-1.

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