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. 1996 Jun;70(6):4081–4085. doi: 10.1128/jvi.70.6.4081-4085.1996

A human cell line selected for resistance to adenovirus infection has reduced levels of the virus receptor.

P Freimuth 1
PMCID: PMC190289  PMID: 8648746

Abstract

To investigate determinants of host cell susceptibility to infection, cells partially resistant to infection were selected from the rare cells which remained adherent after infection of a culture of A549 cells with Ad2RAE, a mutant of adenovirus type 2 whose vertex capsomers lack an Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) sequence which mediates binding of wild-type virus to integrins. Integrins promote the internalization of attached virions, whereas adsorption itself results from binding of the viral fibers to an unidentified cellular receptor. Following three rounds of selection, a persistently infected culture was established in which virus replication was detected in approximately 5% of the cells. Uninfected cells were readily cloned from the culture, indicating that at any particular time the majority of cells in the culture were uninfected. The resistance of one clone of uninfected cells to infection was correlated with a 10-fold reduction in the concentration of fiber receptors on these cells compared with the parental A549 cell line, indicating that efficiency of virus adsorption depends on the receptor concentration. Surprisingly, the rate at which host cells internalized RGD-negative virus also was strongly dependent on the fiber receptor concentration. While internalization of wild-type virus is promoted by the binding of integrins to the penton base RGD sequence, these results suggest that virus also can enter cells by an alternate pathway which requires binding of virions to multiple fiber receptors.

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