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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 282, Issue 24, Pages 17930-17940Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M702180200
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- NIAID NIH HHS [F32 AI071440, R37 AI38296] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [T32 GM08554, R01 GM67853] Funding Source: Medline
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Junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A) serves as a serotype-independent receptor for mammalian orthoreoviruses (reoviruses). The membrane-distal immunoglobulin-like D1 domain of JAM-A is required for homodimerization and binding to reovirus attachment protein sigma 1. We employed a structure-guided mutational analysis of the JAM-A dimer interface to identify determinants of reovirus binding. We purified mutant JAM-A ectodomains for solution-phase and surface plasmon resonance binding studies and expressed mutant forms of full-length JAM-A in Chinese hamster ovary cells to assess reovirus binding and infectivity. Mutation of residues in the JAM-A dimer interface that participate in salt-bridge or hydrogen-bond interactions with apposing JAM-A monomers abolishes the capacity of JAM-A to form dimers. JAM-A mutants incapable of dimer formation form complexes with the sigma 1 head that are indistinguishable from wild-type JAM-A-sigma 1 head complexes, indicating that sigma 1 binds to JAM-A monomers. Residues Glu(61) and Lys(63) of beta-strand C and Leu(72) of beta-strand C' in the dimer interface are required for efficient JAM-A engagement of strain type 3 Dearing sigma 1. Mutation of neighboring residues alters the kinetics of the sigma 1-JAM-A binding interaction. Prototype reovirus strains type 1 Lang and type 2 Jones share similar, although not identical, binding requirements with type 3 Dearing. These results indicate that reovirus engages JAM-A monomers via residues found mainly on beta-strands C and C' of the dimer interface and raise the possibility that the distinct disease phenotypes produced in mice following infection with different strains of reovirus are in part attributable to differences in contacts with JAM-A.
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