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. 1972 Nov;10(5):1053–1070. doi: 10.1128/jvi.10.5.1053-1070.1972

Comparison of the Structure and Polypeptide Composition of Three Double-Stranded Ribonucleic Acid-Containing Viruses (Diplornaviruses): Cytoplasmic Polyhedrosis Virus, Wound Tumor Virus, and Reovirus

L J Lewandowski 1, B L Traynor 2
PMCID: PMC356577  PMID: 4636394

Abstract

Iodination of reovirus, cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus (CPV), and wound tumor virus (WTV), and their respective subviral forms, followed by analysis of the labeled polypeptides by using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, has been used to compare the protein contents of these three diplornaviruses. This approach, when combined with electron microscopy and buoyant density determinations, appears capable of localizing individual polypeptides in some of the viral and subviral forms. CPV (p = 1.435 g/cm3) seems to resemble reovirus cores (p = 1.440 g/cm3) in both ultrastructure and polypeptide composition. CPV is composed of five polypeptides with molecular weights of about 151,000, 142,000, 130,000, 67,000, and 33,000. The polyhedral matrix, which in nature encapsulates the virions, is, in turn, composed mainly of two polypeptide species with molecular weights of about 30,000 and 20,000, and several minor proteins. The proteins of WTV consist mainly of four species of polypeptide with molecular weights of about 156,000, 122,000, 63,000, and 44,000, and several minor components. These molecular weight determinations are consistent with the hypothesis that, as has been suggested for reovirus, the viral proteins of CPV and WTV seem to be coded for by monocistronic mes senger RNA molecules transcribed from distinct segments of the double-stranded RNA viral genomes.

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