Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18094165›Full record

ArticleJournal of virology2008

Fusogenicity of Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus envelope protein is dependent on low pH and is enhanced by cytoplasmic tail truncations.

Marceline Côté, Yi-Min Zheng, Lorraine M Albritton, Shan-Lu Liu

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Article in Journal of virology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. The cytoplasmic tail of retroviral envelope glycoproteins.Progress in molecular biology and translational science · 2015
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  13. Cell entry of enveloped viruses.Advances in genetics · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marceline CôtéMcGill University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 3775 University St., Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. shan-lu.liu@mcgill.ca
Yi-Min Zheng
Lorraine M Albritton
Shan-Lu Liu
McGill University · CAUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center · US

Funding

MUTATIONAL AND PHYSICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MULV-E RECEPTORR01AI033410 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCI CTR · PI ALBRITTON, LORRAINE M. · 1993 to 2007
$1.5M
NIAID NIH HHS AI 33410NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI033410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) envelope (Env) is an active oncogene responsible for neoplastic transformation in animals and cultured cells. In this study, we used syncytium induction and fluorescence-based cell fusion assays to investigate JSRV Env fusion and its modulation by the cytoplasmic tail (CT). We found that JSRV Env induced syncytia in cells overexpressing the receptor for JSRV and that a low pH was required for this process to occur. Fusion kinetics studies revealed that cell-cell fusion by JSRV Env at neutral pH was poor, taking up to a day, in sharp contrast to fusion at low pH, which peaked within 2 min following a low-pH trigger. Deletion of the C-terminal 7 or 16 amino acids of the JSRV Env CT had no or little effect on fusion, yet additional truncation toward the membrane-spanning domain, resulting in mutants retaining as little as 1 amino acid of the CT, led to progressively increased syncytium formation at neutral pH that was further enhanced by low-pH treatment. Notably, the severely truncated mutants showed elevated levels of surface subunits in culture medium, suggesting that the CT truncations resulted in conformational changes in the ectodomain of Env that impaired surface subunit associations. Taken together, this study reveals for the first time that the fusion activity of the JSRV Env protein is dependent on a low pH and is modulated by the CT, whose truncation overcomes, at least partially, the low-pH requirement for fusion and enhances Env fusion activity and kinetics.

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Hydrogen-Ion ConcentrationAnimalsBase SequenceCell LineCytoplasmDNA PrimersHumansMembrane FusionRetroviridaeSheepViral Envelope ProteinsDNA PrimersViral Envelope Proteins

Identifiers

PMID18094165
PMCPMC2258932
OpenAlexW2041524641

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