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. 1987 Apr;61(4):982-5.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.61.4.982-985.1987.

Site-specific antibodies define a cleavage site conserved among arenavirus GP-C glycoproteins

M J Buchmeier, P J Southern, B S Parekh, M K Wooddell, M B Oldstone

Site-specific antibodies define a cleavage site conserved among arenavirus GP-C glycoproteins

M J Buchmeier et al. J Virol. 1987 Apr.

Abstract

Arenaviruses share a common strategy for glycoprotein synthesis and processing in which a mannose-rich precursor glycoprotein, termed GP-C in lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV), is posttranslationally processed by oligosaccharide trimming and proteolytic cleavage to yield two structural glycoproteins, GP-1 and GP-2. Mapping the orientation and proteolytic cleavage site(s) in such polyproteins has traditionally required direct protein sequencing of one or more of the cleaved products. This technique requires rigorous purification of the products for sequencing and may be complicated by amino-terminal modifications which interfere with sequence analysis. We used an alternative approach in which synthetic peptides corresponding to sequences bracketing a potential protease cleavage site were used to raise antisera which define the boundaries of the cleaved products. We found that cleavage of LCMV GP-C to yield GP-1 and GP-2 occurs within a 9-amino-acid stretch of GP-C which contains a paired basic amino acid group -Arg-Arg-, corresponding to amino acids 262 to 263 in the LCMV GP-C sequence. By comparison with the predicted amino acid sequences of a second LCMV strain, LCMV-WE, as well as with the deduced amino acid sequences of the New World arenavirus Pichinde and the Old World virus Lassa, we observed similar conservation of paired basic and flanking amino acid sequences among these viruses.

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