Critical Residues and Contacts within Domain IV of Autographa californica Multiple Nucleopolyhedrovirus GP64 Contribute to Its Refolding during Membrane Fusion.

Journal of Virology
Qianlong YuZhaofei Li

Abstract

Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) GP64 is a class III viral fusion protein that mediates low-pH-triggered membrane fusion during virus entry. Although the structure of GP64 in a postfusion conformation has been solved, its prefusion structure and the mechanism of how the protein refolds to execute fusion are unknown. In its postfusion structure, GP64 is composed of five domains (domains I to V). Domain IV (amino acids [aa] 374 to 407) contains two loops (loop 1 and loop 2) that form a hydrophobic pocket at the membrane-distal end of the molecule. To determine the roles of domain IV, we used alanine-scanning mutagenesis to replace each of the individual residues and the contact-forming residues within domain IV and evaluate their contributions to GP64-mediated membrane fusion and virus infection. In many cases, replacement of a single amino acid had no significant impact on GP64. However, replacement of R392 or disruption of the N381-N385, N384-Y388, N385-W393, or K389-W393 contact resulted in poor cell surface expression and fusion loss of the modified GP64, whereas replacement of E390 or G391 or disruption of the N381-K389, N381-Q401, or N381-I403 contact reduced the cell surface expression level of...Continue Reading

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