Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Genética y Fisiología Molecular, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos.
Abstract
Most strains of animal rotaviruses are able to agglutinate erythrocytes, and the surface protein VP4 is the virus hemagglutinin. To map the hemagglutination domain on VP4 while preserving the conformation of the protein, we constructed full-length chimeras between the VP4 genes of hemagglutinating (YM) and nonhemagglutinating (KU) rotavirus strains. The parental and chimeric genes were expressed in insect cells, and the recombinant VP4 proteins were evaluated for their capacity to agglutinate human type O erythrocytes. Three chimeric genes, encoding amino acids 1 to 208 (QKU), 93 to 208 (QC), and 93 to 776 (QYM) of the YM VP4 protein in a KU VP4 background, were constructed. YM VP4 and chimeras QKU and QC were shown to specifically hemagglutinate, indicating that the region between amino acids 93 and 208 of YM VP4 is sufficient to determine the hemagglutination activity of the protein.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
Cited by
35 articles.
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