Functional reconstitution of influenza virus envelopes.
AUTOR(ES)
Stegmann, T
RESUMO
We have examined several procedures for the reconstitution of influenza virus envelopes, based on detergent removal from solubilized viral membranes. With octylglucoside, no functionally active virosomes are formed, irrespective of the rate of detergent removal: in the final preparation the viral spike proteins appear predominantly as rosettes. Protein incorporation in reconstituted vesicles is improved when a method based on reverse-phase evaporation of octylglucoside-solubilized viral membranes in an ether/water system is employed. However, the resulting vesicles do not fuse with biological membranes, but exhibit only a non-physiological fusion reaction with negatively charged liposomes. Functional reconstitution of viral envelopes is achieved after solubilization with octaethyleneglycol mono(n-dodecyl)ether (C12E8), and subsequent detergent removal with Bio-Beads SM-2. The spike protein molecules are quantitatively incorporated in a single population of virosomes of uniform buoyant density and appear on both sides of the membrane. The virosomes display hemagglutination activity and a strictly pH-dependent hemolytic activity. The virosomes fuse with erythrocyte ghosts, as revealed by a fluorescence resonance energy transfer assay. The rate and the pH dependence of fusion are essentially the same as those of the intact virus. The virosomes also fuse with cultured cells, either at the level of the endosomal membrane or directly with the cellular plasma membrane upon a brief exposure to low pH.
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