Membrane receptor mobility changes by sendai virus

  • Toyozo Maeda
  • , Charles Eldridge
  • , Sakuji Toyama
  • , Shun Ichi Ohnishi
  • , Elliot L. Elson
  • , Watt W. Webb

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Abstract

Treatment with Sendai virus does affect the lateral mobility of cell surface components on cultured human cells (KB) and cultured mouse cells (3T3). Diffusion coefficients and mobile fractions of a fluorescent lipid analog, tetramethyl rhodamine-succinyl concanavalin A (ConA) and tetramethyl rhodamine-anti human β2 microglobulin antibodies on the cell surface were measured by fluorescence photobleaching recovery (FPR). Diffusion coefficients of receptors for ConA and for antibodies to β2 microglobulin (presumably histocompatibility antigens) were increased 2- to 3-fold by exposure to the ultraviolet inactivated virus at virus doses from 250 to 2 500 HAU/ml, regardless of whether the particular cells measured had been fused. No mobility enhancement was induced with trypsinized Sendai virus, nor by influenza virus, indicating a probable requirement for the Sendai virus F protein. Virus treatment reduced the diffusion coefficient of a lipid analog in 3T3 cells. The results are compatible with the hypothesis that the Sendai virus disrupts a mobility restraint system, perhaps cytoskeleton-membrane connections.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)333-343
Number of pages11
JournalExperimental Cell Research
Volume123
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 1979

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