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A 110-kDa Nuclear Shuttle Protein, Nucleolin, Specifically Binds to Adeno-Associated Virus Type 2 (AAV-2) Capsid

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Qiu, Jianming, Brown, Kevin E.·1999·Virology

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A 110-kDa protein was copurified with adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV-2) virions after CsCl density gradient isopycnic centrifugation. Amino acid sequence of peptides derived from this protein after tryptic digestion, monoclonal antibody production, and Western blot analysis showed that the copurified protein was the major nucleolar phosphoprotein, human nucleolin. Virus overlay assays demonstrated that AAV-2 capsid specifically bound to the human nucleolin, and immunoprecipitation studies confirmed the in vitro binding of nucleolin and intact AAV-2 capsids but not denatured viral proteins. Double-immunofluorescence staining of infected cells showed that AAV capsid and nucleolin were colocalized in both cytoplasm and nucleus. In addition, when cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions were extracted from AAV-infected KB cells at different time points postinfection, immunoprecipitation data and Western blotting showed that AAV capsid formation and nucleolin interact specifically and share their subcellular localization in infected cells. With the known functions of nucleolin in the synthesis of rRNA and ribosome assembly, binding to single-stranded DNA, and acting as a shuttle between cytoplasm and nucleolus, our data showing that AAV-2 capsid binds specifically to nucleolin both in vitro and in vivo suggest a key role of nucleolin in AAV-2 replication, particularly in capsid assembly.

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  • Nucleolin and nucleophosmin associate with both VPs and assembled capsids in the nucleoli.

    “Additionally, two nuclear proteins, nucleolin and nucleophosmin [43,44], have been shown to associate with both VPs and assembled capsids in the nucleoli.”

    From Understanding Capsid Assembly and Genome Packaging for Adeno-Associated Viruses (2017) · cites this paper as [44]

    The Discussion (page unavailable) describes nucleolin binding to VP1 and VP2 and proposes that it may direct them to the nucleolus. The results section reports nucleolin coimmunoprecipitating with assembled capsids and colocalizing with them in the nucleus, while the Discussion says capsid assembly occurs in the nucleolus. The paper does not demonstrate that both associations occur specifically in the nucleoli; it addresses nucleolin, not the separately cited nucleophosmin. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  1. Hanakahi, L. A., Dempsey, L. A., Li, M. J., and Maizels, N. (1997). Nucleolin is one component of the B cell-specific transcription factor and switch region binding protein, LR1. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 3605-3610.
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Authors
Qiu, J., & Brown, K. E.
Affiliations
National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Qiu, Jianming
Venue
Virology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-05
Volume
257
Issue
2
Pages
373-382
ISSN
0042-6822 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2087100112
Cited by
86
References
44
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FWCI
1.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Virology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Virology and Viral Diseases
Keywords
nucleolin, adeno-associated virus type 2, capsid assembly, nucleolar phosphoprotein, nucleolus, viral replication, subcellular localization
MeSH terms
Nucleolin, Dependovirus, Animals, Capsid, Cell Line, Transformed, Cell Nucleus, Cytoplasm, HeLa Cells, Humans, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Nuclear Proteins, Phosphoproteins, Tumor Cells, Cultured, RNA-Binding Proteins, K562 Cells, Mice

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