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Journal of Virology, June 1999, p. 4590-4599, Vol. 73, No. 6
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0

Vaccinia Virus WR Gene A5L Is Required for Morphogenesis of Mature Virions

Ollie Williams,1 Elizabeth J. Wolffe,2 Andrea S. Weisberg,2 and Michael Merchlinsky1,*

Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland 20852,1 and Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 208922

Received 19 November 1998/Accepted 8 March 1999

The vaccinia virus WR A5L open reading frame (corresponding to open reading frame A4L in vaccinia virus Copenhagen) encodes an immunodominant late protein found in the core of the vaccinia virion. To investigate the role of this protein in vaccinia virus replication, we have constructed a recombinant virus, vA5Li, in which the endogenous gene has been deleted and an inducible copy of the A5 gene dependent on isopropyl-beta -D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) for expression has been inserted into the genome. In the absence of inducer, the yield of infectious virus was dramatically reduced. However, DNA synthesis and processing, viral protein expression (except for A5), and early stages in virion formation were indistinguishable from the analogous steps in a normal infection. Electron microscopy revealed that the major vaccinia virus structural form present in cells infected with vA5Li in the absence of inducer was immature virions. Viral particles were purified from vA5Li-infected cells in the presence and absence of inducer. Both particles contained viral DNA and the full complement of viral proteins, except for A5, which was missing from particles prepared in the absence of inducer. The particles prepared in the presence of IPTG were more infectious than those prepared in its absence. The A5 protein appears to be required for the immature virion to form the brick-shaped intracellular mature virion.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, HFM-457, 1401 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-1448. Phone: (301) 827-2934. Fax: (301) 480-1597. E-mail: merchlinsky{at}cber.fda.gov.

Journal of Virology, June 1999, p. 4590-4599, Vol. 73, No. 6
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0


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