Vaccinia virus cores are transported on microtubules
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- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Virology
- Vol. 84 (9), 2443-2458
- https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.19271-0
Abstract
Infection with Vaccinia virus (VV) produces several distinct virions called intracellular mature virus (IMV), intracellular enveloped virus (IEV), cell-associated enveloped virus (CEV) and extracellular enveloped virus (EEV). In this report, we have investigated how incoming virus cores derived from IMV are transported within the cell. To do this, recombinant VVs (vA5L-EGFP-N and vA5L-EGFP-C) were generated in which the A5L virus core protein was fused with the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) at the N or C terminus. These viruses were viable, induced formation of actin tails and had a plaque size similar to wild-type. Immunoblotting showed the A5L-EGFP fusion protein was present in IMV particles and immunoelectron microscopy showed that the fusion protein was incorporated into VV cores. IMV made by vA5L-EGFP-N were used to follow the location and movement of cores after infection of PtK2 cells. Confocal microscopy showed that virus cores were stained with anti-core antibody only after they had entered the cell and, once intracellular, were negative for the IMV surface protein D8L. These cores co-localized with microtubules and moved in a stop–start manner with an average speed of 51·8 (±3·9) μm min−1, consistent with microtubular movement. Treatment of cells with nocodazole or colchicine inhibited core movement, but addition of cytochalasin D did not. These data show that VV cores derived from IMV use microtubules for intracellular transport after entry.Keywords
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