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Journal of Virology, September 2007, p. 9377-9385, Vol. 81, No. 17
0022-538X/07/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JVI.00632-07
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Ranran Wang,1,
Minggang Fang,1,
Yue Jiang,1
Xushi Xu,1
Hanzhong Wang,1
Xinwen Chen,1
Basil M. Arif,2
Lin Guo,3
Hualin Wang,1 and
Zhihong Hu1*
State Key Laboratory of Virology and Joint Laboratory of Invertebrate Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, People's Republic of China,1 Laboratory for Molecular Virology, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada,2 State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan University and College of Life Sciences, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China3
Received 24 March 2007/ Accepted 14 June 2007
Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry were used to analyze the structural proteins of the occlusion-derived virus (ODV) of Helicoverpa armigera single nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV), a group II NPV. Twenty-three structural proteins of HearNPV ODV were identified, 21 of which have been reported previously as structural proteins or ODV-associated proteins in other baculoviruses. These include polyhedrin, P78/83, P49, ODV-E18, ODV-EC27, ODV-E56, P74, LEF-3, HA66 (AC66), DNA polymerase, GP41, VP39, P33, ODV-E25, helicase, P6.9, ODV/BV-C42, VP80, ODV-EC43, ODV-E66, and PIF-1. Two proteins encoded by HearNPV ORF44 (ha44) and ORF100 (ha100) were discovered as ODV-associated proteins for the first time. ha44 encodes a protein of 378 aa with a predicted mass of 42.8 kDa. ha100 encodes a protein of 510 aa with a predicted mass of 58.1 kDa and is a homologue of the gene for poly(ADP-ribose) glycohydrolase (parg). Western blot analysis and immunoelectron microscopy confirmed that HA44 is associated with the nucleocapsid and HA100 is associated with both the nucleocapsid and the envelope of HearNPV ODV. HA44 is conserved in group II NPVs and granuloviruses but does not exist in group I NPVs, while HA100 is conserved only in group II NPVs.
Published ahead of print on 20 June 2007.
F.D. and R.W. contributed equally to this work.
Present address: Department of Agroecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4.
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