Apical budding of a recombinant influenza A virus expressing a hemagglutinin protein with a basolateral localization signal. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Influenza virions bud preferentially from the apical plasma membrane of infected epithelial cells, by enveloping viral nucleocapsids located in the cytosol with its viral integral membrane proteins, i.e., hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA), and M2 proteins, located at the plasma membrane. Because individually expressed HA, NA, and M2 proteins are targeted to the apical surface of the cell, guided by apical sorting signals in their transmembrane or cytoplasmic domains, it has been proposed that the polarized budding of influenza virions depends on the interaction of nucleocapsids and matrix proteins with the cytoplasmic domains of HA, NA, and/or M2 proteins. Since HA is the major protein component of the viral envelope, its polarized surface delivery may be a major force that drives polarized viral budding. We investigated this hypothesis by infecting MDCK cells with a transfectant influenza virus carrying a mutant form of HA (C560Y) with a basolateral sorting signal in its cytoplasmic domain. C560Y HA was expressed nonpolarly on the surface of infected MDCK cells. Interestingly, viral budding remained apical in C560Y virus-infected cells, and so did the location of NP and M1 proteins at late times of infection. These results are consistent with a model in which apical viral budding is a shared function of various viral components rather than a role of the major viral envelope glycoprotein HA.

publication date

  • April 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus
  • Influenza A virus
  • Virus Assembly

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC136015

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036124420

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/jvi.76.7.3544-3553.2002

PubMed ID

  • 11884578

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 76

issue

  • 7