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Journal of Virology, December 2001, p. 11544-11554, Vol. 75, No. 23
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.23.11544-11554.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Palmitoylation of the Rous Sarcoma Virus Transmembrane Glycoprotein Is Required for Protein Stability and Virus Infectivity

Christina Ochsenbauer-Jambor, David C. Miller,dagger Charles R. Roberts, Sung S. Rhee,Dagger and Eric Hunter*

Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294

Received 6 April 2001/Accepted 7 August 2001

The Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) transmembrane (TM) glycoprotein is modified by the addition of palmitic acid. To identify whether conserved cysteines within the hydrophobic anchor region are the site(s) of palmitoylation, and to determine the role of acylation in glycoprotein function, cysteines at residues 164 and 167 of the TM protein were mutated to glycine (C164G, C167G, and C164G/C167G). In CV-1 cells, palmitate was added to env gene products containing single mutations but was absent in the double-mutant Env. Although mutant Pr95 Env precursors were synthesized with wild-type kinetics, the phenotypes of the mutants differed markedly. Env-C164G had properties similar to those of the wild type, while Env-C167G was degraded faster, and Env containing the double mutant C164G/C167G was very rapidly degraded. Degradation occurred after transient plasma membrane expression. The decrease in steady-state surface expression and increased rate of internalization into endosomes and lysosomes paralleled the decrease in palmitoylation observed for the mutants. The phenotypes of mutant viruses were assessed in avian cells in the context of the pATV8R proviral genome. Virus containing the C164G mutation replicated with wild-type kinetics but exhibited reduced peak reverse transcriptase levels. In contrast, viruses containing either the C167G or the C164G/C167G mutation were poorly infectious or noninfectious, respectively. These phenotypes correlated with different degrees of glycoprotein incorporation into virions. Infectious revertants of the double mutant demonstrated the importance of cysteine-167 for efficient plasma membrane expression and Env incorporation. The observation that both cysteines within the membrane-spanning domain are accessible for acylation has implications for the topology of this region, and a model is proposed.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th St. South, Birmingham, AL 35294. Phone: (205) 934-4321. Fax: (205) 924-1640. E-mail: ehunter{at}uab.edu

dagger Present address: Viral Antigens Inc., Memphis, Tenn.

Dagger Present address: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIMH, Bethesda, Md.

Journal of Virology, December 2001, p. 11544-11554, Vol. 75, No. 23
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.23.11544-11554.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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