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. 1976 Mar;17(3):906–915. doi: 10.1128/jvi.17.3.906-915.1976

Analysis of structural proteins of purified murine cytomegalovirus.

K S Kim, V J Sapienza, R I Carp, H M Moon
PMCID: PMC515491  PMID: 176450

Abstract

Murine cytomegalovirus propagated in mouse embryo fibroblasts was purified by the following procedures. (i) Extracellular virus was concentrated by centrifugation at 100,000 x g for 90 min. (ii) The concentrated virus was passed through a Bio-Rad Bio-Gel A-15m column to eliminate contaminating materials smaller than 15 x 10(6) daltons. Most of the virus was recovered in the void volume of the column. (iii) Two consecutive centrifugations through 20 to 50% potassium tartrate gradients were performed. After the second tartrate gradient centrifugation, symmetrical, coinciding peaks of plaque titer, protein, and radioactivity were found at a density between 1.20 g/cm3 and 1.21 g/cm3. To establish purification criteria, virus was purified from two different mixtures: [35S]methionine-labeled extracellular virus, mixed with an equal volume of unlabeled normal culture fluid, and unlabeled extracellular virus mixed with an equal volume of [35S]methionine-labeled normal culture fluid. At the end of the procedure, the extent of purification, as judged by the ratio of cellular to viral radioactivity was at least 70-fold. Virus proteins were analyzed by electrophoresis on a 5 to 20% gradient polyacrylamide gel slab. After gel electrophoresis,, Coomassie brilliant blue staining profiles and autoradiograms of the purified virus preparations were compared. At least 33 virus structural protein bands were present. The molecular weights of these proteins ranged from 11,500 to 255,000. The sum of the molecular weights of the virus structural proteins was 2,462,000. Autoradiograms obtained from electrophoresis of purified [14C]glucosamine-labeled virus showed that at lease 6 of the 33 viral structural proteins were glycoproteins.

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