title: Domains of glycoprotein H of herpes simplex virus type 1 involved in complex formation with glycoprotein L.
abstract: The complex formation between glycoproteins H (gH) and L (gL) of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) was studied by using five recombinant baculoviruses expressing open reading frames that contain deletions in the coding region of the extracellular domain of gH. In addition, the gH-deletion mutants contained a C-terminal tag. Complex formation of gL and the gH-deletion mutants was studied by immunoprecipitations with anti-tag monoclonal antibody (MAb) A16 and with the gH-specific MAbs 37S, 46S, and 52S. All gH-deletion mutants were complexed to gL when analyzed by MAb A16. MAb 37S precipitated complexes between gL and the two gH-deletion mutants that contain the epitope of this MAb. When the gH conformation-dependent MAbs 46S and 52S were used, gL was coprecipitated together with the gH-deletion mutant lacking amino acids 31-299, but gL was not coprecipitated with the gH-deletion mutant lacking amino acids 31-473. The data from the precipitation studies do allow at least two interpretations. There is either one site for gL binding on gH (residue 300-473) or gL contacts multiple regions of gH. We were unable to demonstrate gL-dependent cell surface expression of either of the gH-deletion mutants. This suggests that the coassociation of gH with gL is necessary but not sufficient for transport of gH to the cell surface.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9700 RB, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Westra
authors.forename: H B
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Kuiperij
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Welling
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Scheffer
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: The
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Welling-Wester
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D016367:Baculoviridae / Q000235:genetics; D002460:Cell Line; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D017353:Gene Deletion; D018259:Herpesvirus 1, Human / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D009154:Mutation; D011233:Precipitin Tests; D018411:Spodoptera / Q000821:virology; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; C044200:glycoprotein H, herpes simplex virus type 1; C077407:glycoprotein L, Human herpesvirus 1