title: White spot syndrome virus envelope protein VP53A interacts with Penaeus monodon chitin-binding protein (PmCBP).
abstract: White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is the causative agent of a severe disease of cultivated shrimp. Using purified WSSV virions, VP53A encoded by open reading frame wssv067 was identified as a structural protein by SDS-PAGE and proteomics. Immunoelectron microscopy with a gold-labeled secondary antibody revealed that VP53A was distributed on the viral envelope. In order to further explore the link between WSSV067 and host proteins, we performed a yeast 2-hybrid screening of a Penaeus monodon cDNA library, using WSSV067C as bait. One of the molecules that specifically interacted with WSSV067C was the P. monodon chitin-binding protein (PmCBP). An in vitro binding assay showed that c-myc-WSSV067C was capable of co-precipitating HA-PmCBP-C. Furthermore, PmCBP was expressed in almost all organs but appeared to be up-regulated at the late stage of WSSV infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, No. 110, Sec. 1, Chien-Kuo N. Road, Taichung 402, Taiwan, ROC. joechen@csmu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Li-Li
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Li-Chen
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Wan-Jung
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Chu-Fang
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Lo
authors.forename: Wei-Pang
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002686:Chitin / Q000378:metabolism*; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral / Q000502:physiology; D047468:Immunoprecipitation; D016253:Microscopy, Immunoelectron; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D033561:Penaeidae / Q000378:metabolism / Q000821:virology*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D013997:Time Factors; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D046848:White spot syndrome virus 1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity*
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D014759:Viral Envelope Proteins; D002686:Chitin