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  • Title: Purification and molecular anatomy of the varicella-zoster virion.
    Author: Grose C, Friedrichs WE, Smith GC.
    Journal: Biken J; 1983 Mar; 26(1):1-15. PubMed ID: 6312957.
    Abstract:
    Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infected cell cultures were harvested and sonically disrupted when cytopathic effect was advanced. Infectious cell-free virus in the sonicates, as well as that in the culture medium, was further concentrated by precipitation with 8% (w/v) polyethylene glycol in the presence of high salinity (0.5 M). The virus-enriched pellet was layered onto 15-45% linear metrizamide gradients and sedimented for 18 h at 70,000 g. Of the three visible bands (designated upper, middle and lower), the middle band at a buoyant density of 1.156-7 g/cm3 was enriched for enveloped virions. Electron microscopic enumeration of particles demonstrated a total of 10.04 log10 enveloped particles and 8.26 log10 unenveloped particles from middle bands representing the yield from a 150 cm2 VZV-infected monolayer. Fractionation of radiolabeled virion preparations by SDS-PAGE revealed 30 polypeptides between 30 and 200 kilodaltons (K) with a total mol wt of 2,240,000. Prominent structural polypeptides included the major capsid protein (155K) and three glycoproteins--62K, 98K and 118K. Certain polypeptides better labeled by [14C] amino acids than by [35S] methionine included a higher mol wt polypeptide (174K) and 45K protein comigrating with actin. Immune precipitation of a Nonidet-extracted virion fraction again demonstrated the three major glycoproteins, as well as the 155K and 45K polypeptides. Comparison of structural polypeptides with the 16 constituents of the VZV-specific immunoprecipitation profile identified at least one polypeptide (145K) which was not represented in the virion and assumed, therefore, to be nonstructural.
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