title: Complementarity in the supramolecular design of arenaviruses and retroviruses revealed by electron cryomicroscopy and image analysis.
abstract: Arenaviruses are rodent-borne agents of diseases, including potentially lethal human hemorrhagic fevers. These enveloped viruses encapsidate a bisegmented ambisense single-stranded RNA genome that can be packaged in variable copy number. Electron cryomicroscopy and image analysis of New World Pichinde and Tacaribe arenaviruses and Old World lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus revealed pleomorphic enveloped particles ranging in diameter from approximately 400 to approximately 2,000 A. The surface spikes were spaced approximately 100 A apart and extended approximately 90 A from the maximum phospholipid headgroup density of the outer bilayer leaflet. Distinctive stalk and head regions extended radially approximately 30 and approximately 60 A from the outer bilayer leaflet, respectively. Two interior layers of density apposed to the inner leaflet of the viral lipid bilayer were assigned as protein Z and nucleoprotein (NP) molecules on the basis of their appearance, spacing, and projected volume. Analysis of en face views of virions lacking the GP-C spikes showed reflections consistent with paracrystalline packing of the NP molecules in a lattice with edges of approximately 57 and approximately 74 A. The structural proteins of retroviruses and arenaviruses assemble with similar radial density distributions, using common cellular components.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. bneuman@scripps.edu
authors.forename: Benjamin W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Neuman
authors.forename: Brian D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Adair
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Ronald A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Milligan
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Buchmeier
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yeager
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018050:Arenavirus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006224:Cricetinae; D020285:Cryoelectron Microscopy; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins / Q000648:ultrastructure; D014771:Virion / Q000648:ultrastructure*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D009698:Nucleoproteins; D015678:Viral Structural Proteins; C117526:p11 Z protein, Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
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