Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 289, Issue 16, Pages 11421-11430Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.537498
Keywords
Adenovirus; Mass Spectrometry (MS); Proteomics; Virus Entry; Virus Structure
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- Netherlands Proteomics Centre
- European Community [262067]
- National Institutes of Health [5T32 AI007354, AI070771, HL054352]
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Background: Adenoviruses (AdV) are broadly employed as gene delivery vectors. Results: Copy numbers of all AdV proteins were measured, and the release of proteins upon heat stress investigated. Conclusion: The viral protease plays a distinct role in the segmented release of AdV proteins. Significance: Our characterization by mass spectrometry provides new insight in HAdV disassembly during entry into host cells. Using high-resolution MS-based proteomics in combination with multiple protease digestion, we profiled, with on average 90% sequence coverage, all 13 viral proteins present in an human adenovirus (HAdV) vector. This in-depth profile provided multiple peptide-based evidence on intrinsic protease activity affecting several HAdV proteins. Next, the generated peptide library was used to develop a targeted proteomics method using selected reaction monitoring (SRM) aimed at quantitative profiling of the stoichiometry of all 13 proteins present in the HAdV. We also used this method to probe the release of specific virus proteins initiated by thermal stimulation, mimicking the early stage of HAdV disassembly during entry into host cells. We confirmed the copy numbers of the most well characterized viral capsid components and established the copy numbers for proteins whose stoichiometry has so far not been accurately defined. We also found that heating HAdV induces the complete release of the penton base and fiber proteins as well as a substantial release of protein VIII and VI. For these latter proteins, maturational proteolysis by the adenoviral protease leads to the differential release of fragments with certain peptides being fully released and others largely retained in the AdV particles. This information is likely to be beneficial for the ongoing interpretation of high resolution cryoEM and x-ray electron density maps.
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