The trans Golgi network is lost from cells with African swine fever virus

McCrossan, Mari, Windsor, Miriam, Ponnambalam, Sreenivasan, Armstrong, John and Wileman, Thomas (2001) The trans Golgi network is lost from cells with African swine fever virus. Journal of Virology, 75 (23). pp. 11755-11765.

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Abstract

The cellular secretory pathway is important during the assembly and envelopment of viruses and also controls the transport of host proteins, such as cytokines and major histocompatibility proteins, that function during the elimination of viruses by the immune system. African swine fever virus (ASFV) encodes at least 26 proteins with stretches of hydrophobic amino acids suggesting entry into the secretory pathway (R. J. Yanez, J. M. Rodriguez, M. L. Nogal, L. Yuste, C. Enriquez, J. F. Rodriguez, and E. Vinuela, Virology 208:249–278, 1995). To predict how and where these potential membrane proteins function, we have studied the integrity of the secretory pathway in cells infected with ASFV. Remarkably, ASFV caused complete loss of immunofluorescence signal for the trans Golgi network (TGN) marker protein TGN46 and dispersed the AP1 TGN adapter complex. Loss of TGN46 signal was not due to degradation of TGN46, suggesting redistribution of TGN46 to other membrane compartments. ASFV markedly slowed transport of cathepsin D to lysosomes, demonstrating that loss of TGN structure correlated with loss of TGN function. ASFV shows a tropism for macrophages, and it is possible that ASFV compromises TGN function to augment the activity of viral membrane proteins or to suppress the function of host immunoregulatory proteins.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Medicine (former - to 2013) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2010 11:10
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 01:05
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/13233
DOI:	10.1128/JVI.75.23.11755-11765.2001

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