Interaction between Tubulin and the Viral Matrix Protein of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus: Possible Implications in the Viral Cytopathic Effect

Virology ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 202 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Melki ◽  
Yves Gaudin ◽  
Danielle Blondel
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Cytopathic Effect ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis ◽  
Viral Cytopathic Effect

scholarly journals Assay of human interferon in Vero cells by several methods

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-475
Author(s):  
P C Ferreira ◽  
M L Peixoto ◽  
M A Silva ◽  
R R Golgher
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Sindbis Virus ◽  
Reduction Method ◽  
Cytopathic Effect ◽  
Vero Cells ◽  
Human Interferon ◽  
Inhibition Assay ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis ◽  
Viral Cytopathic Effect

Four methods for the assay of human interferon in Vero cells were compared based on the inhibition of viral cytopathic effect (CPE) in tubes, the inhibition of CPE in microplates, the reduction of plaques, and the inhibition of quantitative hemadsorption. For inhibition of CPE, Sindbis virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, poliovirus type 2, and vaccinia virus were used for challenge. In the plaque reduction method, Sindbis virus, vesicular stomatitis virus, and poliovirus were employed, and Newcastle disease virus was used in the quantitative hemadsorption assay. Sindbis virus was most susceptible to interferon in those tests measuring inhibition of CPE, but vesicular stomatitis virus was as sensitive in the plaque reduction method. Highest titers of interferon were recorded in microplates, especially with Sindbis virus as the challenge agent, followed by the quantitative inhibition assay. The CPE inhibition method was the simplest, and the quantitative hemadsorption assay was the most rapid to perform. Reproducibilities, as shown by the coefficient of variation, were 15, 39, and 59% for plaque reduction, CPE inhibition in tubes, and CPE inhibition in microplates, respectively.

Role of matrix protein in cytopathogenesis of vesicular stomatitis virus.

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 1716-1725 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Blondel ◽  
G G Harmison ◽  
M Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis

scholarly journals Delivery of modified mRNA encoding vesicular stomatitis virus matrix protein for colon cancer gene therapy

RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (22) ◽  
pp. 12104-12115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Men ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Xueyan Zhang ◽  
Rong Huang ◽  
Guonian Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Therapy ◽  
Colon Cancer ◽  
Colon Carcinoma ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Cancer Gene Therapy ◽  
Viral Gene ◽  
Cancer Gene ◽  
Viral Gene Therapy ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis

Liposome–protamine complex delivered VSVMP mRNA efficiently inhibits C26 colon carcinoma with safety, providing an alternative strategy for non-viral gene therapy.

scholarly journals Tracking the Fate of Genetically Distinct Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Matrix Proteins Highlights the Role for Late Domains in Assembly

2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (23) ◽  
pp. 11750-11760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Soh ◽  
Sean P. J. Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Fluorescent Proteins ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Viral Particles ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis ◽  
Late Domains

ABSTRACTVesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) assembly requires condensation of the viral ribonucleoprotein (RNP) core with the matrix protein (M) during budding from the plasma membrane. The RNP core comprises the negative-sense genomic RNA completely coated by the nucleocapsid protein (N) and associated by a phosphoprotein (P) with the large polymerase protein (L). To study the assembly of single viral particles, we tagged M and P with fluorescent proteins. We selected from a library of viruses with insertions in the M gene a replication-competent virus containing a fluorescent M and combined that with our previously described virus containing fluorescent P. Virus particles containing those fusions maintained the same bullet shape appearance as wild-type VSV but had a modest increase in particle length, reflecting the increased genome size. Imaging of the released particles revealed a variation in the amount of M and P assembled into the virions, consistent with a flexible packaging mechanism. We used the recombinants to further study the importance of the late domains in M, which serve to recruit the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery during budding. Mutations in late domains resulted in the accumulation of virions that failed to pinch off from the plasma membrane. Imaging of single virions released from cells that were coinfected with M tagged with enhanced green fluorescent protein and M tagged with mCherry variants in which the late domains of one virus were inactivated by mutation showed a strong bias against the incorporation of the late-domain mutant into the released virions. In contrast, the intracellular expression and membrane association of the two variants were unaltered. These studies provide new tools for imaging particle assembly and enhance our resolution of existing models for assembly of VSV.IMPORTANCEAssembly of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) particles requires the separate trafficking of the viral replication machinery, a matrix protein (M) and a glycoprotein, to the plasma membrane. The matrix protein contains a motif termed a “late domain” that engages the host endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery to facilitate the release of viral particles. Inactivation of the late domains through mutation results in the accumulation of virions arrested at the point of release. In the study described here, we developed new tools to study VSV assembly by fusing fluorescent proteins to M and to a constituent of the replication machinery, the phosphoprotein (P). We used those tools to show that the late domains of M are required for efficient incorporation into viral particles and that the particles contain a variable quantity of M and P.

scholarly journals Matrix Protein Mutations Contribute to Inefficient Induction of Apoptosis Leading to Persistent Infection of Human Neural Cells by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus

Virology ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 295 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Desforges ◽  
Geneviève Despars ◽  
Stéphane Bérard ◽  
Myriam Gosselin ◽  
Margie O. McKenzie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Persistent Infection ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Neural Cells ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis ◽  
Human Neural Cells ◽  
Induction Of Apoptosis ◽  
Protein Mutations

scholarly journals Phenotypes of vesicular stomatitis virus mutants with mutations in the PSAP motif of the matrix protein

2012 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Obiang ◽  
Hélène Raux ◽  
Malika Ouldali ◽  
Danielle Blondel ◽  
Yves Gaudin
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Virus Assembly ◽  
Susceptibility Gene ◽  
Point Mutations ◽  
Binding Motif ◽  
Single Mutation ◽  
Amino Terminal ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis ◽  
Late Domains

Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) matrix protein (M) has a flexible amino-terminal part that recruits cellular partners. It contains a dynamin-binding site that is required for efficient virus assembly, and two motifs, 24PPPY27 and 37PSAP40, that constitute potential late domains. Late domains are present in proteins of several enveloped viruses and are involved in the ultimate step of the budding process (i.e. fission between viral and cellular membranes). In baby hamster kidney (BHK)-21 cells, it has been demonstrated that the 24PPPY27 motif binds the Nedd4 (neuronal precursor cell-expressed developmentally downregulated 4) E3 ubiquitin ligase for efficient virus budding and that the 37PSAP40 motif, although conserved among M proteins of vesiculoviruses, does not possess late-domain activity. In this study, we have re-examined the contribution of the PSAP motif to VSV budding. First, we demonstrate that VSV M indeed binds TSG101 [tumour susceptibility gene 101; a component of the ESCRT1 (endosomal sorting complex required for transport 1)] through its PSAP motif. Second, we analysed the phenotype of several recombinant mutants. We show that a double mutant with point mutations in both the PSAP and the PPPY motifs is impaired compared with a single mutant in the PPPY motif, indicating that the PSAP motif partially compensates for the lack of the PPPY motif. Mutants’ phenotypes depend on cell lines: in CERA (chicken embryo-related, Alger clone) cells, a recombinant virus with a single mutation in the PSAP motif was impaired compared with the wild type, and a mutant with a single mutation in the dynamin-binding motif was much less impaired in Vero cells than in BSR (clones of BHK-21) cells. These results have implications for the VSV budding pathway that will be discussed.

scholarly journals Complexes of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Matrix Protein with Host Rae1 and Nup98 Involved in Inhibition of Host Transcription

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. e1002929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karishma R. Rajani ◽  
Elizabeth L. Pettit Kneller ◽  
Margie O. McKenzie ◽  
David A. Horita ◽  
Jeff W. Chou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis

scholarly journals Biarsenical Labeling of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Encoding Tetracysteine-Tagged M Protein Allows Dynamic Imaging of M Protein and Virus Uncoating in Infected Cells

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 2611-2622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subash C. Das ◽  
Debasis Panda ◽  
Debasis Nayak ◽  
Asit K. Pattnaik
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis Virus ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Dynamic Imaging ◽  
Viral Envelope ◽  
M Protein ◽  
Recombinant Viruses ◽  
Infected Cells ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis

ABSTRACT A recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-PeGFP-M-MmRFP) encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein fused in frame with P (PeGFP) in place of P and a fusion matrix protein (monomeric red fluorescent protein fused in frame at the carboxy terminus of M [MmRFP]) at the G-L gene junction, in addition to wild-type (wt) M protein in its normal location, was recovered, but the MmRFP was not incorporated into the virions. Subsequently, we generated recombinant viruses (VSV-PeGFP-ΔM-Mtc and VSV-ΔM-Mtc) encoding M protein with a carboxy-terminal tetracysteine tag (Mtc) in place of the M protein. These recombinant viruses incorporated Mtc at levels similar to M in wt VSV, demonstrating recovery of infectious rhabdoviruses encoding and incorporating a tagged M protein. Virions released from cells infected with VSV-PeGFP-ΔM-Mtc and labeled with the biarsenical red dye (ReAsH) were dually fluorescent, fluorescing green due to incorporation of PeGFP in the nucleocapsids and red due to incorporation of ReAsH-labeled Mtc in the viral envelope. Transport and subsequent association of M protein with the plasma membrane were shown to be independent of microtubules. Sequential labeling of VSV-ΔM-Mtc-infected cells with the biarsenical dyes ReAsH and FlAsH (green) revealed that newly synthesized M protein reaches the plasma membrane in less than 30 min and continues to accumulate there for up to 2 1/2 hours. Using dually fluorescent VSV, we determined that following adsorption at the plasma membrane, the time taken by one-half of the virus particles to enter cells and to uncoat their nucleocapsids in the cytoplasm is approximately 28 min.

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