title: The nonstructural small glycoprotein sGP of Ebola virus is secreted as an antiparallel-orientated homodimer.
abstract: The nonstructural small glycoprotein sGP, which unlike the transmembrane GP is synthesized from primary nonedited mRNA species, is secreted from infected cells as a disulfide-linked homodimer. Site-directed mutagenesis of all cysteine residues revealed that dimerization is due to an intermolecular disulfide linkage between cysteine residues at positions 53 and 306. Formic acid hydrolysis of sGP demonstrated that sGP dimers consist of monomers in antiparallel orientation. Another editing product of the GP gene of Ebola virus (ssGP), which shares 295 amino-terminal amino acid residues with sGP, is secreted from cells in a monomeric form due to the lack of the carboxyl-terminal part (present in sGP), including cysteine at position 306.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Virologie, Philipps-Universität, Robert-Koch-Strasse 17, Marburg, D-35037, Germany. volchkov@mailer.uni-marburg.de
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Volchkova
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feldmann
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Klenk
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Volchkov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002460:Cell Line; D002522:Chlorocebus aethiops; D019281:Dimerization; D029043:Ebolavirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D014709:Vero Cells; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014764:Viral Proteins
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins; C110613:secreted glycoprotein, Ebola virus