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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages 561-570Publisher
SOC GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000373
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K08500] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Tetherin (BST-2/CD317/HM1.24) is an antiviral membrane protein that prevents the release of enveloped viruses from the cell surface. We found that the growth of human parainfluenza virus type 2 (hPIV-2), but not that of V protein-deficient recombinant hPIV-2, was inhibited by tetherin. V protein immunoprecipitates with tetherin, and this interaction requires its C-terminal Trp residues. The glycosyl phosphatidylinositol attachment signal of tetherin, but not its cytoplasmic tail, was necessary for its binding with V. The distribution of the V protein clearly changed when co-expressed with tetherin in plasmid-transfected cells. hPIV-2 infection of HeLa cells reduced cell surface tetherin without affecting total cellular tetherin. This reduction also occurred in HeLa cells constitutively expressing V, whereas mutated V protein did not affect the cell surface tetherin. Our results suggest that hPIV-2 V protein antagonizes tetherin by binding it and reducing its presence at the cell surface.
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