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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 276, Issue 49, 46268-46275, December 7, 2001

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A Protein G Fragment from the Salmonid Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Rhabdovirus Induces Cell-to-Cell Fusion and Membrane Phosphatidylserine Translocation at Low pH^*

Amparo M. Estepa, Ana I. Rocha^§, Vicente Mas, Luis Pérez, Jose Antonio Encinar, Elena Nuñez^¶, Asia Fernandez, Jose Manuel Gonzalez Ros^¶, Francisco Gavilanes^¶, and Julio M. Coll^§

From the  Centro Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain 03202, ^¶ Departmento Bioquimica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 28028, and ^§ Instituto Nacional Investigaciones Agrarias y Alimentar, Subdireccion General Investigacion y Tecnologia, Departmento Biotecnología, Crt. Coruña Km 7, Madrid 28040, Spain

The fusion-related properties of segments p9, p3, p4, and p9 + p2 surrounding the p2 phospholipid-binding domain of the protein G (pG) of the salmonid rhabdovirus of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) (Nuñez, E., Fernandez, A. M., Estepa, A., Gonzalez-Ros, J. M., Gavilanes, F., and Coll, J. M. (1998) Virology 243, 322-330; Estepa, A., and Coll, J. M. (1996) Virology 216, 60-70), have been studied at neutral and fusion (low) pH values by using its derived peptides. Cell-to-cell fusion, translocation of phosphatidylserine, and inhibition of fusion of pG-transfected cells defined the p9 + p2 (fragment 11, sequence 56-110) as a fragment with higher specific activity for anionic phospholipid aggregation than the previously reported p2. While fragment 11, p2, and p3 showed interactions with anionic phospholipids, p9 and p4 showed no interactions with any phospholipids. When added to a cell monolayer model at low pH, fragment 11 induced pH-dependent cell-to-cell fusion and translocated phosphatidylserine from the inner to the outer leaflet of the membrane. At low pH and in the presence of anionic phospholipids, fragment 11 showed more than 80% -sheet conformation (IR and CD spectroscopies). Finally, anti-fragment 11 antibodies inhibited low pH-dependent pG-transfected cell-to-cell fusion. All of the data support the conclusion that fragment 11 is a primary determinant of some of the viral cell fusion events in VHSV.

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