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J. Biochem, 1998, Vol. 123, No. 6 1064-1072
© 1998 Japanese Biochemical Society

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The Roles of Individual Cysteine Residues of Sendai Virus Fusion Protein in Intracellular Transport1

Hiroaki Segawa2, Masahiko Kato, Tetsuro Yamashita and Hideharu Taira

Department of Bioscience and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University Morioka 020-8550

2To whom correspondence should be addressed: Tel: +81-196-21-6154, Fax: +81-196-21-6177, E-mail: taira{at}iwate-u.ac.jp

The role of intramolecular disulfide bonds in the fusion (F) protein of Sendai virus was studied. The 10 cysteine residues were changed to serine residues using site-directed mutagenesis. None of the cysteine mutant F proteins reacted with a monoclonal antibody specific for the mature conformation of the F protein, but eight of ten mutants reacted with an immature conformation-specific monoclonal antibody. The transport of these mutant proteins to the cell surface was drastically reduced. All of the cysteine mutant F proteins remained sensitive to endoglycosidase H (endo H) for 3 h after their synthesis. Moreover, cell surface transport of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein co-expressed with each of these cysteine mutant F proteins was also reduced. These results suggest that all cysteine residues participate in the formation of intramolecular disulfide bonds, that co-translational disulfide bond formation is crucial to the correct folding and intracellular transport of the F protein, and that interaction of the F and HN proteins takes place intracellulary.

1This work was supported by a Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.


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