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Journal of Virology, December 1998, p. 9683-9697, Vol. 72, No. 12
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Recombinant Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Engineered for Targeted Binding to Erythropoietin Receptor-Bearing Cells

Sylvie Laquerre,1,dagger Dina B. Anderson,1 Donna B. Stolz,2 and Joseph C. Glorioso1,*

Departments of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry1 and Cell Biology and Physiology,2 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

Received 4 May 1998/Accepted 25 August 1998

The utility of recombinant herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) vectors may be expanded by manipulation of the virus envelope to achieve cell-specific gene delivery. To this end, an HSV-1 mutant virus deleted for glycoprotein C (gC) and the heparan sulfate binding domain of gB (KgBpK-gC-) was engineered to encode different chimeric proteins composed of N-terminally truncated forms of gC and the full-length erythropoietin hormone (EPO). Biochemical analyses demonstrated that one gC-EPO chimeric molecule (gCEPO2) was posttranslationally processed, incorporated into recombinant HSV-1 virus (KgBpK-gCEPO2), and neutralized with antibodies directed against gC or EPO in a complement-dependent manner. Moreover, KgBpK-gCEPO2 recombinant virus was specifically retained on a soluble EPO receptor column, was neutralized by soluble EPO receptor, and stimulated proliferation of FD-EPO cells, an EPO growth-dependent cell line. FD-EPO cells were nevertheless refractory to productive infection by both wild-type HSV-1 and recombinant KgBpK-gCEPO2 virus. Transmission electron microscopy of FD-EPO cells infected with KgBpK-gCEPO2 showed virus endocytosis leading to aborted infection. Despite the lack of productive infection, these data provide the first evidence of targeted HSV-1 binding to a non-HSV-1 cell surface receptor.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, E1240 Biomedical Science Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Phone: (412) 648-8106. Fax: (412) 624-8997. E-mail: joe{at}hoffman.mgen.pitt.edu.

dagger Present address: Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Richmond, Calif.

Journal of Virology, December 1998, p. 9683-9697, Vol. 72, No. 12
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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