PMID- 16298963 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20051220 LR - 20200306 IS - 0022-1317 (Print) IS - 0022-1317 (Linking) VI - 86 IP - Pt 12 DP - 2005 Dec TI - Assembly of functional hepatitis C virus glycoproteins on infectious pseudoparticles occurs intracellularly and requires concomitant incorporation of E1 and E2 glycoproteins. PG - 3189-3199 LID - 10.1099/vir.0.81428-0 [doi] AB - Hepatitis C virus (HCV) E1 and E2 envelope glycoproteins (GPs) displayed on retroviral cores (HCVpp) are a powerful and highly versatile model system to investigate wild-type HCV entry. To further characterize this model system, the cellular site of HCVpp assembly and the respective roles of the HCV GPs in this process were investigated. By using a combination of biochemical methods with confocal and electron microscopic techniques, it was shown that, in cells producing HCVpp, both E1 and E2 colocalized with retroviral core proteins intracellularly, presumably in multivesicular bodies, but not at the cell surface. When E1 and E2 were expressed individually with retroviral core proteins, only E2 colocalized with and was incorporated on retroviral cores. Conversely, the colocalization of E1 with retroviral core proteins and its efficient incorporation occurred only upon co-expression of E2. Moreover, HCVpp infectivity correlated strictly with the presence of both E1 and E2 on retroviral cores. Altogether, these results confirm that the E1E2 heterodimer constitutes the prebudding form of functional HCV GPs and, more specifically, show that dimerization with E2 is a prerequisite for efficient E1 incorporation onto particles. FAU - Sandrin, Virginie AU - Sandrin V AD - IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - INSERM, U412, Lyon, F-69007 France. FAU - Boulanger, Pierre AU - Boulanger P AD - Laboratoire de Virologie et Pathogenese Virale, CNRS UMR-5537, Faculte de Medecine de Lyon and Institut Federatif de Recherche RTH Laennec, Lyon, France. FAU - Penin, Francois AU - Penin F AD - Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines, CNRS-UMR 5086, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France. FAU - Granier, Christelle AU - Granier C AD - IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - INSERM, U412, Lyon, F-69007 France. FAU - Cosset, Francois-Loic AU - Cosset FL AD - IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - INSERM, U412, Lyon, F-69007 France. FAU - Bartosch, Birke AU - Bartosch B AD - IFR128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lyon, F-69007 France. AD - INSERM, U412, Lyon, F-69007 France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - J Gen Virol JT - The Journal of general virology JID - 0077340 RN - 0 (E1 protein, Hepatitis C virus) RN - 0 (Viral Envelope Proteins) RN - 157184-61-7 (glycoprotein E2, Hepatitis C virus) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Line MH - Cell Membrane/chemistry MH - Chlorocebus aethiops MH - Cytoplasm/chemistry MH - Hepacivirus/*physiology MH - Humans MH - Microscopy, Confocal MH - Microscopy, Electron MH - Viral Envelope Proteins/*metabolism MH - *Virus Assembly EDAT- 2005/11/22 09:00 MHDA- 2005/12/21 09:00 CRDT- 2005/11/22 09:00 PHST- 2005/11/22 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/12/21 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2005/11/22 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1099/vir.0.81428-0 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Gen Virol. 2005 Dec;86(Pt 12):3189-3199. doi: 10.1099/vir.0.81428-0.