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Interferon Induces the Production of Membrane Protein-deficient and Infectivity-defective Vesicular Stomatitis Virions through Interference in the Virion Assembly Process

Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E OW3, Canada
¹ Department of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814, U.S.A.

The reduced rate of synthesis, maturation and degradation as well as the level of accumulation of the intracellular virus proteins in VSV-infected cells may account for the overall reduction (less than 10-fold) of progeny virion yield due to interferon (IFN); however, the deficiency of the virions proteins, G and M, which apparently caused a drastic loss of infectivity of these progeny virions (about 1000-fold) cannot be easily explained, because the concentrations of G and M proteins relative to other virus proteins were not reduced in the cell. In fact, intracellular M protein was significantly increased. Moreover, the virus proteins in IFN-treated and control cells were synthesized and accumulated in large excess of the amount incorporated into the released virions. The reduction in the intracellular activity of GlcNac-P-P-Dol transferase did not appear to play a direct role in the antiviral mechanism in this system. Our results, however, do suggest that the deficiency of G and M proteins in the virion is related to specific inhibition of the incorporation of either or both of these proteins in the virus assembly process.

Keywords: vesicular stomatitis virus, interferon, proteins

Received 15 July 1982; accepted .

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