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VIRUS RESEARCH
卷 68, 期 1, 页码 25-33出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(00)00149-0
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respiratory syncytial virus; fusion protein; furin
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The fusion (F) glycoprotein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is synthesized as a nonfusogenic precursor protein (F-0), which during its migration to the cell surface is activated by cleavage into the disulfide-linked F-1 and F-2 subunits. In the present study, soluble secreted human furin produced by a recombinant baculovirus cleaved RSV F-0 into proteins the size of F-1 and F-2. Furthermore, cleavage of F-0 was partially inhibited in the furin defective LoVo cell line, in calcium depleted HEp-2 cells, and in HEp-2 cells treated with the furin inhibitor decanoyl-R-V-K-R-chloromethylketon. These findings strongly suggest an important role for furin in activation of the RSV F protein. The F-0 protein could not be detected on the surface of cells, in which F protein activation was inhibited, and RSV particles did not appear to be released from these cells. It thus seems that in contrast to the F proteins of most other paramyxoviruses, the RSV F-0 protein is very inefficient in reaching the cell surface or is unable to reach the cell surface and therefore cannot be incorporated into virus particles. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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