TY - JOUR
T1 - Retroviral envelope protein fusions to secreted and membrane markers
AU - Mace, M. Catherine
AU - Hansen, Mark
AU - Whiting, Sam
AU - Wang, Chin Tien
AU - Barklis, Eric
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Drs. S. Emr and S. Udenfeld for their gifts of invertase and PLAP clones. We also are indebted to Drs. R. Micano-vie and T. Stevens for helpful advice, and to Laura Jelinek and Yun-Cai Cai for assistance at the early stages of this work. This research was supported by Grant 1-FY91-0049 from the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and by a grant (2 ROl CA47088-04Al) from the National Cancer Institute.
PY - 1992/6
Y1 - 1992/6
N2 - We have analyzed a series of Moloney murine leukemia (M-MuLV) envelope (env) protein fusions to the marker proteins invertase and placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP), expressed in Psi2 retrovirus packaging cells. he yeast invertase protein, fused at its third amino acid residue to the amino-terminal signal sequence and 17 residues of the mature M-MuLV env protein, retained its enzymatic activity and was secreted from mammalian cells. However, env protein fusions to the C-terminal portion of invertase were inactive. In contrast, some, but not all, env protein fusions at the C-terminal region of PLAP were enzymatically active: PLAP fusions containing long C-terminal portions of env localized to the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and possessed low enzyme activity levels, while fusion constructs containing relatively short portions of the M-MuLV env gene localized to the Golgi and had higher activity levels. Those proteins that localized to the Golgi also were processed, in part, to forms of 67 to 68 kDa, the size of the mature PLAP protein. Since PLAP ordinarily is transfered to a phosphatidyl-inositol glycan tail (PIG-tail) in the Golgi and then transported to the plasma membrane, it appears that Golgi-localized PLAP-env fusions are processed imperfectly. PLAP itself, when expressed in Psi2 cells, accumulated at the plasma membrane and, unlike the PIG-tailed Thy-1 protein, was not incorporated into virus particles. Thus, the reported incorporation of the Thy-1 protein into M-MuLV virions does not appear to be a consequence of its glycoprotein tail.
AB - We have analyzed a series of Moloney murine leukemia (M-MuLV) envelope (env) protein fusions to the marker proteins invertase and placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP), expressed in Psi2 retrovirus packaging cells. he yeast invertase protein, fused at its third amino acid residue to the amino-terminal signal sequence and 17 residues of the mature M-MuLV env protein, retained its enzymatic activity and was secreted from mammalian cells. However, env protein fusions to the C-terminal portion of invertase were inactive. In contrast, some, but not all, env protein fusions at the C-terminal region of PLAP were enzymatically active: PLAP fusions containing long C-terminal portions of env localized to the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and possessed low enzyme activity levels, while fusion constructs containing relatively short portions of the M-MuLV env gene localized to the Golgi and had higher activity levels. Those proteins that localized to the Golgi also were processed, in part, to forms of 67 to 68 kDa, the size of the mature PLAP protein. Since PLAP ordinarily is transfered to a phosphatidyl-inositol glycan tail (PIG-tail) in the Golgi and then transported to the plasma membrane, it appears that Golgi-localized PLAP-env fusions are processed imperfectly. PLAP itself, when expressed in Psi2 cells, accumulated at the plasma membrane and, unlike the PIG-tailed Thy-1 protein, was not incorporated into virus particles. Thus, the reported incorporation of the Thy-1 protein into M-MuLV virions does not appear to be a consequence of its glycoprotein tail.
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U2 - 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90544-Y
DO - 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90544-Y
M3 - Article
C2 - 1585654
AN - SCOPUS:0026690971
SN - 0042-6822
VL - 188
SP - 869
EP - 874
JO - Virology
JF - Virology
IS - 2
ER -