Transcription of vesicular stomatitis virus activated by pardaxin, a fish toxin that permeabilizes the virion membrane.
The toxic protein, Pardaxin, of the Red Sea flatfish Pardachirus marmoratus readily induced transcription of vesicular stomatitis virus by making the virion membrane permeable to nucleoside triphosphates in the absence of nonionic detergents. Virion transcription was activated over a wide range of Pardaxin concentrations, but at optimal concentrations, the rate of transcription exceeded that induced by Triton X-100. The inhibitory effect of M protein was manifested for both Pardaxin-induced and Triton-induced transcription at high concentrations of vesicular stomatitis virions; however, unlike the Triton-induced reaction, the inhibitory effect of M protein was not reversed by polyglutamic acid added to the Pardaxin-induced transcription reaction. We propose that activation of virion transcription by Pardaxin resembles more closely intracellular transcription initiated by virion penetration than does detergent-activated transcription of vesicular stomatitis virus.
D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases / Q000378:metabolism; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005397:Fish Venoms; D007700:Kinetics; D017830:Octoxynol; D010539:Permeability; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols / Q000494:pharmacology; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects*; D014721:Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics*; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000502:physiology
D005397:Fish Venoms; D012367:RNA, Viral; D014763:Viral Matrix Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; D011092:Polyethylene Glycols; C017603:pardaxin; D017830:Octoxynol; D012321:DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases