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Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Bristol, School of Medical Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK
The Epstein—Barr virus (EBV) open reading frame BDLF3 is predicted to code for a glycoprotein on the basis that it contains sequences with signal peptide and transdomain characteristics and nine potential N-linked glycosylation sites. No sequential or positional homologues of BDLF3 have been located in other herpes-viruses. A bacterial glutathione S-transferase (GST)-BDLF3 fusion protein was used to demonstrate that over one–third of EBV-immune human sera tested recognized the fusion protein but not GST alone on Western blots. The fusion protein was used to raise polyclonal sera in rabbits. A BDLF3 recombinant baculovirus was constructed using the full-length BDLF3 sequence (AcBDLF3). Rabbit anti-fusion protein sera and some human EBV-immune sera recognized products of approximately 30 and 55 kDa from AcBDLF3-infected insect cells by Western blotting. A peptide representing the carboxy-terminal amino acids 215–234 of the BDLF3 sequence was used to raise anti-peptide sera in rabbits. Anti-peptide serum detected a product by indirect immunofluorescence in acetone-fixed EBV-infected B cells from all cell lines tested. A diffuse band with a molecular mass of 100–150 kDa was detected by Western blot in B95–8 cell lysates, partially purified B95-8 virus and B95-8-infected cell membranes after probing with anti-BDLF3 peptide serum. This product was shown to be glycosylated after enzymatic deglycosylation of a B95-8 virus preparation using neuraminidase, O-glycosidase or N-glycosidase F. The BDLF3 protein products have no known function.
* Author for correspondence. Fax +44 117 9287891. e-mail Andy.Morgan@bris.ac.uk
Received 3 November 1994;
accepted 6 February 1995.
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