Affiliation:
1. Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Abstract
Glycoprotein E (gE) of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) will bind immunoglobulin G (IgG) (Fc) affinity columns (R. B. Bauke and P. G. Spear, J. Virol. 32:779-789, 1979), but recent evidence suggests that the HSV-1 Fc receptor is composed of a complex of gE and glycoprotein I (gI) and that both gI and gE are required for Fc receptor activity (D. C. Johnson and V. Feenstra, J. Virol. 61:2208-2216, 1987; D. C. Johnson, M. C. Frame, M. W. Ligas, A. M. Cross, and N. D. Stow, J. Virol. 62:1347-1354, 1988). We have expressed gE and gI, either alone or in combination, on the surface of HeLa cells by using recombinant vaccinia viruses and have measured Fc receptor activity by Fc-rosetting or IgG-binding assays. Expression of gE alone resulted in the induction of Fc receptor activity, while expression of gI alone gave no detectable Fc binding. Coexpression of gE and gI resulted in higher levels of IgG binding than did expression of gE alone, despite the fact that under conditions of coexpression, the levels of surface gE were reduced. We propose that gE and gI together form a receptor of higher affinity than gE alone and that HSV-1 therefore has the potential to induce two Fc receptors of different affinities.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology
Cited by
87 articles.
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