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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Autographa californica multiple nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) contains a 966 bp ORF that encodes a papain type cysteine proteinase with cathepsin L-like characteristics. Using Western blot analysis of infected cell extracts we showed that v-cath proteinase has 35.5 kDa and 32 kDa precursor forms which are processed to a 27.5 kDa mature form in a manner characteristic of papain and cathepsin L. V-cath proteinase activity was greatest under acidic conditions (pH 5.0) and was reduced in the presence of the cysteine proteinase inhibitors, leupeptin and E64. Urea, a known enhancer of cathepsin L activity, also enhanced v-cath proteinase activity. AcMNPV v-cath proteinase was detected post-mortem in tissues of insects infected with wild-type (wt) virus. Insects infected with a v-cath deletion mutant did not become flaccid after death as is normally observed with wt AcMNPV infections. These findings indicate a link between v-cath activity and degradation of host tissues during virus pathogenesis.
* Author for correspondence. Fax +1613 545 6796. e-mail faulknrp@qucdn.queensu.ca
Present author: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca NY 14853 USA.
Received 24 June 1994;
accepted 30 December 1994.
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