VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 ContentslistsavailableatScienceDirect Virus Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/virusres Characterisation of different forms of the accessory gp3 canine coronavirus type I protein identified in cats Anne-LaurePham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengiania,b,c,LidiaDuartea,b,c,NicolePavioa,b,c, SophieLePo dera,b,c,∗ aUniversitéParis-Est,EcoleNationaleVétérinaired’Alfort,UMR1161Virology,Maisons-Alfort,France bINRA,UMR 1161Vir ology, Maisons-A lfort,Franc e cANSES ,Anim alH ealthLabo ratory,UMR11 61Virology,Maisons-Alfort,France a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Articlehistory: ORF3isasupplementalopenreadingframecodingforanaccessoryglycoproteingp3ofunknownfunc- Availab leonline7February2015 tion,o n ly presentinge notyp eIcanin estra in(CCo V-I )an dsomea typicalfeline FCo Vs trains.In these latterhosts,theORF3genesystematicallydisplaysoneortwoidenticaldeletionsleadingtothesynthesis Keywords: oftru ncated pr oteins gp3- (cid:2)1andgp3-(cid:2) 2.Asde letio ns inC oVacces soryprot einshav e alre adybeen Coronavirus in volvedint issueorh ostswit ch,s tudiesof the sedifferen tg p3p roteinswe recondu cted incanin eand Accessory protein felinecel l.A llpro tei nsoli gomeris ethrou gh coval entbond s,are N-glyco sylate dandare ma intaine din Feline theERinnon-infectedbutalsoinCCoV-IIinfectedcells,withoutanyspecificretentionsignal.However, Canine deletionsinfluencetheirlevelofexpression.Incaninecells,allproteinsareexpressedwithsimilarlevel GSppe3cies barrier whereas i n feline ce lls, th e exp re ssion of gp3 -(cid:2) 1 is hig her t han the two oth er forms o f gp3 . None o f the gp3proteinsmodulatetheviralreplicationcycleofheterologousgenotypeIICCoVincaninecellline, leadingtotheconclusionthatthegp3proteinsareprobablyadvantageousonlyforCCoV-Iandatypical FCoVstrains. ©2015ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserved. 1. Introduction diseases(Pedersen,2009;DecaroandBuonavoglia,2008).CCoVs areseparatedintotwogeneticclusters,CCoV-IandCCoV-II,accord- The genome of the Coronaviridae (CoV) family is a large ing to the S gene sequence. One accessory gene, named ORF3 single-strandedandpositive-senseRNAmoleculeofabout30kDa is a singularity of the CCoV genotype I (CCoV-I). Its sequence (Gorbalenya et al., 2006). For all CoVs, the first two thirds of is highly conserved among CCoV-I, suggesting its importance in the genome encode non-structural proteins which are essen- some aspects of the viral infection. It is the only CCoV acces- tiallyinvolvedintheCoVreplicationandtranscriptionmachinery sorygenewhichhasbeeninvestigatedsofar.Invitrotranslation (Bredenbeeketal.,1990).Therestofthegenomecomprisesgenes assaysdemonstratedthatORF3encodesanN-glycosylatedprotein ofthestructuralproteinsS(spike),E(envelope),M(membrane), of28kDa,namedgp3(Lorussoetal.,2008).Still,thefunctionof N (nucleocapsid) and eventually HE (hemagglutinin–esterase) gp3remainsunknown.Ourrecentphylogeneticstudiesconducted (De Groot, 2006). Additional genes named accessory genes are on the characterisation of CoV strains infecting cats lead to the interspacedbetweengenesencodingthestructuralproteins.The discoveryofatypicalFCoVstrainsharbouringafelineSgeneand numberandpositionofthesegenesvaryfromoneCoVtoanother. downstreamgenesgeneticallyrelatedtoCCoV-I.Sequencesofthe Witheightaccessorygenes,SARS-CoVpossessesthehighestnum- ORF3genewerealsopresentinthesestrainsbutdisplayeddele- berofthem,whereashCoV-229Econtainsonlyone(Dijkmanetal., tionsneverdescribedsofar.AllORF3sequencesfromatypicalFCoV 2006). strainssharedadeletionof29-nt,whichintroducedastopcodon Feline CoV (FCoV) and canine CoV (CCoV) are common andanotherfrequentlyobserveddeletionof27-ntdeletedthepre- pathogensofcatanddogpopulations,sometimesleadingtofatal dicted protein of nine additional a.a. (Le Poder et al., 2013). The completegp3proteinofCCoV-Iisof207a.a.inlength,whereasthe deletedformspresentinatypicalFCoVstrainsarepredictedtopro- duceeit herad eletedp ro tein,nam edg p3-(cid:2)1 of1 58a.a.ora no ther ∗ Corresponding author at: Université Paris-Est, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire form ,name d gp3-(cid:2)2 ,of149 a.a.Inc omparis on with gp 3, gp3-(cid:2)1 d’Alfort, UMR 1161 Virology, 94704 Maisons-Alfort, France. andg p3-(cid:2)2 losttheC -te rmi nus pa rtfromthec ystei nere siduein Tel.:E +-3m3a 1il a4d3d 9r6es 7s:3s 2le5p; ofadxe:r @+3v3e t1-a 4lf3o 9rt6.f r73(S 9.6Le. Poder). posi tion157 onw ard .Gp3-(cid:2)2isf urthe rtrun cat edof9a.a .betwe en http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2015.01.027 0168-1702/©2015ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserved. A.-L.Pham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengianietal./VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 161 Lys88 andPhe96.Allproteinsmaintainapredictedsignalpeptide during1hat37◦Ctoeliminatetheparentalplasmid.LibraryEffi- attheN-t erminu se xtremity andaput at iveglycos ylation siteon ciency D H 5(cid:3) bact eri a (Invitro gen) were tr ansforme d with the As n116 .Nootherp articularfu nctio n aldomai nwaspredicte dby in digesti onprod uctsacco rdingtothe manuf acturer’sreco mmen da- silicoanalysis. tions. Coronavirusesarewellknownforcrossingthespeciesbarrier, sometimes leading to the emergence of new pathogens, like the 2.3. Immunoblotting SARS-CoV or the MERS-CoV. Adaptation to a new host is often accompaniedbymodificationsofsomeaccessoryproteins,among At 24h post-transfection, cells were lysed with RIPA extrac- others(McBrideandFielding,2012).Withtheaimofunderstand- tionbuffer(20mMTris–HCl,pH7.5,0.2%NonidetP-40,150mM ingtheroleofthegp3deletionsintheadaptationofatypicalFCoVs NaCl, 0.5mM EGTA, 1.5mM MgCl2, 10% Glycerol) supplemented tothefelinespecies,wecharacterisedthebasicpropertiesofthe with Complete Protease Inhibitor Cocktail Tablet (Roche). Sam- dif fere ntform sofgp3 inb othfelineand can inece lls.Theabse nc eof ples containing 100(cid:2)g o f total pr oteins w ere the n mixed with culture-c ellada pt eds tra inso fCCoV -Ia ndofth enew lyd iscovere d an e qual volum e o f 5 × Laem mli buffe r and heat ed at 95◦C atypicalFCo Vstrains impair ed studies ofth e diffe rentg p3proteins for 5min . Where m enti oned, 10% of (cid:4)- merc aptoeth ano l was in cells culture infected with these specific CoVs. Through tran- addedtocelllysates.Proteinswereseparatedonsodiumdodecyl sienttransfectionofplasmidsexpressingthedifferentproteins,we sulphate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and demonstratedthatthegp3deletionsinfluencetheirexpression.The transferredontoanitrocellulosemembrane(GEHealthcare).After completegp3 prot ein isex pressedo nlyincan inec ells,gp3-(cid:2) 1is saturation with 5 % milk in PB S–Tween ( 0.01 %) buffer (P BST), expressed ata highlev el inbothcan inea nd felinec ellsan dgp3-(cid:2) 2 the memb ranes wer e incu ba ted with ant i-Flag m onoclon al anti- isfaintlyobservedinfelinecelllines.Incontrast,allproteinsassem- body(Sigma–Aldrich)dilutedat1/5000oranti-actinmonoclonal bleintocovalentoligomersandaremaintainedintheendoplasmic antibody (Sigma–Aldrich) diluted at 1/2000 in PBST–milk buffer reti culu m(ER)de spitecleav age oft heirpeptide si gnal andabsence overnigh t at 4◦C. The me mbrane s w ere wa sh ed three tim es in ofaknownspecificretentionsignal.Incaninetransfectedcellsand PBST buffer and incubated for 1h at room temperature with infected by CCoV-II, which does not harbour the ORF3 gene, the horseradish peroxidise-conjugated anti-mouse antibody (Roche) gp3 proteins are also localised in the ER but none influence the diluted at 1/5000 in PBST-milk buffer. After three washes, blots viralproductionofCCoV-IIstrains. wererevealedusingenhancedchemiluminescence(ECL)reagents (Pierce) and analysed with a Fusion imaging system (Bio-Rad). QuantificationwasperformedbyusingtheBio-1Dsoftware. 2. Materials and methods Forglycosid asea ssays,20(cid:2) lof cellly sate swere mixedwith1(cid:2)l ofeitherpeptide-N-glycosidaseF(PNGaseF)orendoglycosidaseH 2.1. Cell culture and transient transfection (E ndoH) (Biolabs),and3(cid:2)Lof1 0 ×glycopr ot ein denaturingbuff er (Biolab s) priortoin cub at ion at 37◦ Cfor3h. Canine A72 and feline CrFK cells were maintained in Dul- becco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen, Life 2.4. Indirectimmunofluorescencemicroscopy Technologies) supplemented with 10% foetal bovine serum, 1% penicillin–streptomycinsolution,1%sodium-pyruvateand1%non- A72 and CrFK were transfected with expression plasmids of essentialaminoacids. the different gp3 proteins. At 24h post-transfection, cells were Subconfluent A72 and CrFK cells were transfected in 6-well plates with 2.5(cid:2) g D NA p lasm id us ing Tr ansIT-LTI tr ans fection washed with PBS and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS-4% sucrose (Life Technologies). After two washes in PBS, a solution reagent(Mirus),followingthemanufacturer’sinstructions. of50mMNH4Clwasaddedfor10minatroomtemperature,then fixed cells were incubated with PBS-0.5% bovine serum albumin 2.2. Plasmids (BSA)for30min.AfteronewashwithPBS-1%BSAandtwowashes withPBS-1%BSA-0.5%saponine,amixofprimaryantibodyraised OptimisedcodonsequencesofthecompleteORF3gene(Gen- againsttheFlagtag(Sigma–Aldrich)andeitherantibodyspecific Bank accession numbers JN714200), and the two deleted gene ofthecalnexin(Sigma–Aldrich)orthegiantin(Abcam)atdilution forms(GenBankaccessionnumbersJN714196andJN714199)were of1/500inPBS–BSA–saponinesolutionwasaddedfor1hatroom synthesised in frame with the 3xFlag tag into pCDNA3.1 plas- temperature.Fortriplelabellingininfectedcells,aserumofCoV mids (Invitrogen) between restriction site BamHI and NotI, by infectedcatatadilutionof1/250wasaddedtothemixofanti-Flag Proteogenix(ProteoGenixSAS,France). andanti-calnexinantibodies.Afterthreewashes,cellswereincu- MutantplasmidswithdeletionofthesignalpeptideoftheORF3 batedwithamixofanti-mouseAlexa488andanti-rabbitAlexa555 genesweresubsequentlygeneratedfromeachparentalplasmid. secondaryantibodies(Invitrogen)atworkingdilutionsof1/600in Briefly,plasmidsconsistingofresidues15tothestopcodon,were PBS–BSA–saponinesolutionfor45minatroomtemperature.For obtaine dbyPCR assayswit ht heforwa rd pr imer s((cid:2) SP-ORF 3F1: triplestaining,seco ndaryan tibo die suse d werea nti-catAlexa 488 5(cid:3)-GGACT AG TGG ATCCA TGCA CCC CTTTCAC G-3(cid:3),(cid:2)S P-ORF3-(cid:2)1/ (cid:2)2 (Jacks on),anti- mouseAle xa555and anti -rabb itAlexa 647(I nvi- F1: 5(cid:3)-TCCGCCGCCACCATGCTCCACCCCTTTCAC -3(cid:3)) and reverse trogen),al latworking diluti onso f1/5 00.Afterth reew ashe swith prim ers((cid:2)SP-ORF3R1:5(cid:3)-CGTGAAAGGGGTGCATG GATC CACTAG- PBS,cell sw er ecovered withaso lut ionofM owi olmix edwith DAPI TCC-3(cid:3),(cid:2) SP-ORF-(cid:2)1 /(cid:2)2 R1:5(cid:3)-GTGAAAGGGGTGGAGCATGGTGG- fors tainin gof thenucle us.S li deswere e xamined at63× mag nifi- CGGCG GA-3(cid:3)). To create gp 3 proteins with uncleaved signal cat ionbyap ot ome microsc ope(Z eiss) andimage sw ere analysed sequence,theaminoacidscriticalforcleavagewerechangedinto usingtheZensoftware. five Leucine residues by PCR assays using the following primers (5L- ORF3 F2 : 5(cid:3)-ATC AG TGTC GTCCT TTTGT TAT TACTCCAC CCCTTT- 2.5. Infections 3(cid:3),5L-ORF 3R2 :5(cid:3)-AAAGGGGTGGAGTAATAACAAAAGAAGGACACT- GA T-3(cid:3),5L- ORF 3-(cid:2)1/(cid:2)2F2:5(cid:3)-ATGATTAGTGTGGTCCTTTTGTTAT- For infection assays, subconfluent A72 cells were inoculated TACACC CCTTTCAC-3(cid:3), 5L -OR F3-(cid:2)1/(cid:2)2 R2: 5(cid:3)-CGTGAAAGGGG- with t ype II stra in CCoV -1-71, from t he A meric an Ty pe Culture TGTAATAACAAAAGGA CCACACTAAT CAT -3(cid:3)). PCR products were Colle ction (A TCC®V R-809TM), a t a m ultip licity of in fectio n (MOI) submitted to digestion by DpnI en zyme (N ew E ngland Bi olabs) of10.Cell swerethenincubat ed fo r120minat 37 ◦C,with gentle 162 A.-L.Pham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengianietal./VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 Fig.1. Schematicrepresentationofthedifferentgp3proteins.Gp3isthefulllengthproteinencodedbyCCoV-I,gp3-(cid:2)1andgp3-(cid:2)2arisefromatypicalFCoVandaredeleted ofth e C-terminus partincompar iso nw ithgp3. Ade letionof nine a min oac idsdiff ersbetw eengp3 -(cid:2) 1andg p3-(cid:2)2.T hep otential signa lpep tideand N-gl ycos ylat ionsite areindicatedbyalightgreyboxandastar,respectively.LengthofthedifferentproteinsisindicatedbythenumberofaminoacidsattheC-terminus. rockingforoptimalviraladsorption.Inoculumwasthenreplaced detected.Aftertreatmentwith(cid:4)-mercaptoethanol,themonomeric bystandardfreshmedium,supplementedwith10%FBS.Cellswere formsweremainlyobserved,suggestingtheassemblyofgp3,gp3- lef ttoincub atefo rspecifie damountofti me.In pa rallel ,infe ction (cid:2)1an dgp3 -(cid:2)2in todimeric complexes thr oughdisu lfi deb onds ofn on -transfect ed cellsusing thesam e protoc ol wascon ducted. (Fig . 2C ). For gp 3-(cid:2) 1, highe r order ass emblies were obs erved, whichcouldcorrespondtotetramers. 2.6. QuantitativeRT-PCR 3.2. Post-translationalmaturationoftheproteins ViralRNAwasextractedfromsupernatantsusingtheQIAamp Viral RNA Mini kit (QIAGEN). RNA was reverse transcribed Thegp3proteinsbearaputativeglycosylationsiteattheAsn116 and amplicons were generated using the Quantitect SYBR position. This amino acid is conserved in all three proteins. In Green RT-PCR kit (QIAGEN) and the following primers set: ordertocharacterisetheglycan,assayswithglycosidaseswereper- CCoV- 7F: 5(cid:3)-GG CAA CCCGATGT TTAA AAC TGG-3(cid:3) and CCoV-7R : 5(cid:3)- forme d. At24hpost- tran sfection ,cellly sates wereincuba tedei ther CACTAGA TCCAGACGTTAGCTC-3(cid:3), following the m anufactur er’s withPN Ga se F orEndoHormoc ktr eated. PNGa seFremov esall instructionsatanannealingstepo f52◦C.The sepr imerstargetthe N-lin kedglyc an sw herea s End oHcl eaveson lypolym an nosecarb o- accessorygene7boftypeIICCoV.Quantificationofviralproduc- hydratesthathavenotbeenfurtherprocessedintocomplexsugar. tion in ce lls su per na tant w a s norm alised by the tot al am ount of Gp3,gp3 -(cid:2)1 andg p3- (cid:2)2a reallse nsitiveto PNG aseF(da tanot RNA.Incellularextracts,quantitativeRT-PCRoftheactinhouse- shown)andtoEndoH(Fig.3A).Theseresultsshowthatthediffer- keepinggenewasperformedinparallelusingthefollowingprimers entgp3proteinsareglycosylatedwithahighmannoseglycan.The set:ACT IN-F: 5(cid:3)-C AGCACAAT GA AGATC AAGA TCA TC-3(cid:3)and ACTIN- sam ere sultswe reo btainedinbo thA 72 and CrFKcell lines(d ata R:5 (cid:3)-CGGACT CATCGTACTCCTGCTT-3(cid:3).TheviralRNAcopyn umber notsh own). incellextractswasnormalisedtotheexpressionoftheactingene InsilicoanalysesindicatedanN-terminalhydrophobicdomain us ingt he2(cid:2)Ct met hod(Livaka nd Sch mittgen,20 01 ). funct ioning assigna lsequenc ec leavableaft erthealanin eamino acidinposition15.Totestwhetherthispeptidesignaliscleaved, mutants without the predicted signal peptide for each protein 3. Results ((cid:2)SP-gp 3,(cid:2)SP-gp 3-(cid:2) 1,(cid:2)SP-gp 3-(cid:2)2) werecon stru cted. Mutants 3.1. Expression of gp3, gp3-(cid:2)1 and gp3-(cid:2)2 in A72 and CrFK cells 5wLi-tghp t3h-e(cid:2) c1le,a5vLa-ggpe 3s-i(cid:2)te2 r)ewplearceeda lsboy cfiovnes tLreuucctiende inreosirddueerst o(5iLm-gppa3ir, thepotentialcleavageofthesignalpeptide.At24haftertransfec- TheORF3geneswereclonedintoexpressionplasmidsunderthe tion,cellslysateswerecollected,treatedornotwithEndoHand tchoent3r(cid:3)oel nodf tohfeO CRMF3V( pFirgo.m1)o.tEear cwhipthla as m3xid-Fwlaags ttarga nfusfseecdt eind efriathmeer iant analy sed b y immu noblo tting. All (cid:2) SP prot ein s mi grate d faste r t han thewildtypeproteins(Fig.3B).Theestimateapparentmolecular A72 canine cells or in CrFK feline cells. Both cell lines were chosen wei ghto fthe (cid:2)SPpro teins was abo ut3kDa lessthan thenative for their susceptibility to CCoV-II and FCoV-II infections. At 24h proteins.Withoutasignalpeptide,proteinscannotentertheERand post-transfection,cellswerelysedandproteinsweredetectedby thereforecannotbecomeglycosylated,asconfirmedbythesame immInu Ano7b2l octetlilns,g awlli tthh raene apnrtoi-tFeliangs ,a gnpti3b,o gdpy3.-(cid:2)1 and gp3-(cid:2)2 are eglpe3c-t(cid:2)ro1pha onrdetgicp 3p- r(cid:2)ofi2lep orof (cid:2)t eiSnPs pwrohtiecihnsh ta rreba oteudr oanr nuontc b leya E vnadbol e Hs. i5gL- detected. They migrated according to their predicted molecular nalpeptidedisplayaslowermigrationandanapparentmolecular weightat28,22and21kDa,respectively(Fig.2A).InCrFKcells, express ion of gp3 and gp 3-(cid:2)2 waslow,wh erea sgp3 -(cid:2) 1wa sstill weight of approximately 3 kDa higher than the wild type proteins. Someunglycosylatedformsaredetectedasshownbycomparison detected(Fig.2A).Quantificationdemonstratesthatexpressionof the gp3- (cid:2)1 i s abo ut fivefold hig her than gp3 and tenfold mo re with lysates treated with Endo H. 5L-gp3 migrated faster than the than gp3-(cid:2)2 ( Fig.2B ).InA72 cells,d iffere nces ofe xpressio nlev- wild-type protein. els between the three proteins are less pronounced. Quantity of gp3 -(cid:2)1ison lytw ofold moreele vat edth angp3andg p3-(cid:2)2. 3.3. Subcellularlocalisationoftheproteins Asgp 3 poss essessix cyste ineresidu esw hile gp3 -(cid:2)1andgp3- (cid:2)2 co ntai n only fou r, w e invest igated th e poss ible form atio n of Next,thesubcellularlocalisationoftheproteinswasexamined covalent homo-oligomers. At 24h post-transfection, cell lysates by colocalisation assays of gp3 proteins with different markers were treated and migrated onto SDS-PAGE gels with or without of the cellular compartments in both A72 and CrFK. 24h post- (cid:4)-me rcaptoe than ol.Under non-r educingco nditi ons,s up raforms tra nsfe ction,du allabellingwer eca rried outw itha nti-Fla ga nt ibody ofapproximatelytwicethemolecularweightofeachproteinwere to visualise the gp3 proteins and specific antibodies directed A.-L.Pham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengianietal./VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 163 Fig.2. Proteinexpressionincanineandfelinecelltypes.(A)DetectionoftheproteinsintransfectedcanineA72andfelineCrFKcellsbyimmunoblottingassays.Cellswere transfectedwiththedifferentgp3expressionplasmidsorwithanemptypCDNAvector(Control).At24hpost-transfection,cellswerelysedandprocessedontoSDS-PAGE gelsforimm unob lot ting.Gp3 prot einswered etectedu sin gana nt i-Flaga ntibody .Cellul ar(cid:4)-actin wa sr ev ealedinparallelb yasp ecific mono clon alanti-act inan tibody.(B) Levelsofexpressionofthedifferentgp3proteins.Immunoblotsofthedifferentgp3proteinswerequantifiedusingtheBio-1Dsoftware.Quantityofgp3wasarbitrarysetto 1andt he relativequ an tity ofgp3-(cid:2) 1an dgp3-(cid:2)2 areexpressed in com parison with gp3.All dataa rereprese ntativ eof threein dependen texperim e nts.E rror barsrepr ese nt standarddeviations.(C)Multimerisationofthegp3proteins.A72andCrFKcellsweretransfectedwiththeemptyvectorpCDNA(control)orplasmidsencodingthedifferent gp3prote insandlyse da t24hpost-transf ec tion .Cel llysatesw ere trea tedw ith(+ )orw ithout(−)(cid:4) -Mer cap toethan ol((cid:4)-M E),prio rtomigr ati onontoS DS-PAGEg els .Proteins weredetectedbyimmunoblottingwithanti-Flagantibody.Positionsandmasses(inkDa)ofthemolecularmassproteinmarkersareindicatedontheleft. againstcalnexin,aresidentproteinoftheER,orgiantin,amarker gp3proteinscolocalisedwiththecalnexinsignalininfectedcells oftheGolgiapparatus.Byapotomemicroscopyanalyses,thefluo- (Fig.4C). rescencesignalsofthegp3proteinsandthegiantinweredistinctin bothA72andCrFK,indicatingthattheproteinshadnotreachedthe 3.4. CCoV-IIviralproductionincellsexpressingthedifferentgp3 Golgiapparatus(datanotshown).Incontrast,thegp3proteinscolo- proteins calisedwithcalnexinsignalsincanineandfelinecelllines(Fig.4A andB). Toevaluatetheimpactofthedifferentgp3proteinsduringthe Subcellular localisation of the proteins in a viral context was viral life cycle, 12h after transfection with the empty pCDNA3.1 investigated. A 72 cells we re infe cted with th e CCoV -II strai n at plasm id orplas mi ds enco dinggp3,gp 3-(cid:2)1 ,or gp3-(cid:2)2 ,A72cells MOI of 10 and transfected 20h post-infection, with either the were infected with CCoV-II strain at MOI of 10. A72 cells were empty vector pCDNA3.1 or with plasmids encoding the differ- alsoinfectedatthesameMOIwithoutpriortransfection.At24h, ent gp3 proteins. Cells were then fixed 72h post-infection and 48h and 72h post-infection, supernatants and cells were col- processedforsubcellularstudies.Thefluorescencesignalsofthe lectedandanalysedbyquantitativeRT-PCR.Quantityofviralcopy 164 A.-L.Pham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengianietal./VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 Fig.3. Processingofthegp3proteins.(A)MaturationoftheN-linkedoligosaccha- rides.A72cellsweretransfectedwithplasmidscontainingtheindicatedsequences andly seda t24 hpost -transfectio n.20 (cid:2)Lofwho lecelllysa tesw erethen treated(+) with Endo H or m ocktreated(−).A fte rm ig ration on SDS-PA GEge ls,gp 3prote ins wererevealedbyimmunoblottingwiththeanti-Flagantibody.(B)Cleavageofthe signalpeptideofthegp3proteins.A72cellsweretransfectedwithexpressionplas- midsc ontainin g diff eren tconstru ctso fthe gp3 proteins.(cid:2) SP-gp 3,(cid:2)SP-gp 3-(cid:2)1 and(cid:2) SP-gp3-(cid:2)2 aredele tedofthefi rst 14N -ter minalam inoacids. In5L-gp3,5L- gp3- (cid:2)1and5L-gp 3-(cid:2) 2const ru cts, thep uta tivecleava gesite wasre pla cedby five Leucineresidues,topreventsignalpeptidecleavage.At24hpost-transfection,cell lysatesw erereco ver edandt reated with(+) orwithou t( −) En doHtreatment,p rior tomigration.Thedifferentproteinsweredetectedbyimmunoblottingwithananti- Flagantibody.Positionsandmasses(inkDa)oftheproteinmarkersareindicated ontheleft. genomeincellssupernatant(Fig.5A)andcellularextracts(Fig.5B) was calculated and normalised to total RNA amount and the actinhousekeepinggene,respectively.Nodifferencewasobserved betweeninfectedcellsandinfectedcellsexpressingthedifferent gp3proteins. 4. Discussion Thepresenceofanadditionalaccessorygene,ORF3isspecificto CCoV-I.InCCoV-IIandFCoV-II,onlyveryshortsequences,lessthan 71-ntandcorrespondingtoORF3,arepresentandwereinterpreted byLorussoetal.(2008)asresidualsequencesfromaCoVancestor. InFCoV-I,nonucleotidecorrespondingtoORF3hasbeendescribed untilourrecentstudy,inwhichtheORF3genewasidentifiedin atypicalfelineCoVstrainsharbouringanNgenerelatedtoCCoV- Fig. 4. Subcellular localisation of gp3, gp3-(cid:2)1 and gp3-(cid:2)2. A72 cells (A) and I and an S gene close to FCoV-I (Le Poder et al., 2013). In these a typic al fe line st rains, th e ORF3 s ar e 595- nt or 5 68-nt i n l ength CmriFdKs ceenllcso d(Bin) gwtehree tdriaffnesrfeencttegdp w3itphr oatne inems.pAtty 2p4ChDNpAo spt-latrsamnisdfe (cctoionntr,ocle) lolsr wplearse- and are preced ed by s peci fic tran scri ption-re gu lating s equ ences, dual labelledw itha ntibodies again sttheFla gta g((cid:3) - Flag)andagainstc alnex in((cid:3)- sugg esti ngthepos sib letransl ationintofunctionalprot einsduring calne xin),am arke roftheER. Alexa-48 8a nti-m ou seandale xa- 555anti -rabbitw ere usedassecondaryantibodies.(C)A72cellswereinfectedwiththeCCoV-II1-71 infections. strainandtransfected20hpost-infectionwithplasmidscontainingtheindicated AllORF3sequencesrecoveredinthesefelineCoVstrainswere seque nces .At72hpos t-in fe ction,cellswer efixe dandtrip lestainedw ith anti-Flag, delete dthes ameway,l eadingeith er toap utative gp3 -(cid:2)1pr otein, anti-calnex in and ananti-CoVser umo rigin ating from anin fected cat.C ellnuclei compris ing thefi rst15 8a.a.o fgp3o rt o gp3-(cid:2)2 protein, withan werecounter stain ed withDAP I.Allsli deswereob serve dw itha63× oil imm ersion additional 9 a.a . dele tion com p ared to gp 3-(cid:2)1 (F ig. 1). A p revio us tohbejeacn titvi-eF llaegn,st hbey aannt ia-pcoaltno emxein ma nicdr otshceoDpeA P(ZIesiigs sn)a. lAits tshheo wringh.Bt ,a ar cmhea rrgt:e 1d0 im(cid:2)mag.e of studyexploredthebiochemicalpropertiesofthecompletecanine A.-L.Pham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengianietal./VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 165 gp3proteinusinganinvitrotranslationsystemandconcludedthat statusofCoVaccessoryproteinshasbeeninvestigatedforsomeof gp3isaprobablysecreted,solubleglycoproteinof28kDa(Lorusso them.Multimerizationhasalsobeendemonstratedfortheacces- et a l., 2 008). Her e, the ex pression of the diffe re nt gp3, gp3-(cid:2)1 soryO RF3fromPEDV( Wan get al.,20 12),ORF4afro mH CoV -229E an dgp 3-(cid:2)2 protein sw asanalysed in cell culture.P rote inswere (Zha ngeta l.,20 14)or ORF8ab fr om SARS- CoV(Oo strae tal.,2007). expressedeitherincanineorfelinecellsinaccordancetothehost Post-translationalmodificationsarealsocommontothethree tropismfromwhichtheywerederived.Thelevelofexpressionis proteinsinthestudiedcelllines.Invitrotranslationindicatedthat differentnotonlybetweenthetwocelllinesused,butalsobetween gp3containsanN-linkedglycosylationsite(Lorussoetal.,2008). thedifferentproteins.IncanineA72cells,thethreeproteinsare In cell culture and through the use of different deglycosidases, expressedatapproximatelythesamelevel,butinfelinecells,dis- we were able to identify the glycan residue as a high polyman- crepancies be tweenthemar eve ryma rked. Exp res siono fgp3 -(cid:2)1 nos e (Fig . 3A) , w hich cor robo rates w ith thei r l oc alisat ion in the is fivefold higher th an gp 3 an d gp 3-(cid:2)2 (Fi g. 2B). Whe th er these ER(F ig.4A and B).Ind eed,maturat ionin toco mplexsugar ne eds differentexpressionslevelsareduetodifferentdegradationpro- processingbyenzymesfromtheGolgiapparatusandpresenceofa cessesormodulationsatthetranslationstepremaintobeexplored. polymannoseischaracteristicofproteinsresidingintheER.Itisstill Expressionlevelsmightbeinfluencedbycellularfactorsinvolvedin unclearhowthegp3proteinsaremaintainedintheER,asnopecu- regulatingproteintranslation.Interestingly,thegp3isexpressedin liarsignalforERretentionhasbeenidentified(Gaoetal.,2014). caninecellsbutfaintlydetectedinfelinecellswhichmaycorrelate Retentionofthegp3proteinsintheERcouldhavebeenexplained withthecaninevirusoriginofgp3. byanon-cleavageofthesignalpeptide.Thishypothesiswastested Beside these discrepancies, the proteins have common bio- bymolecularmasscomparisonbetweennativegp3proteinsand chemicalproperties.Ininvitrotranslationassay,gp3wasexpressed proteinseitherdeletedoffthesignalpeptideorharbouringanon- inamonomericform(Lorussoetal.,2008).Here,incellculture,we cleavablesignalpeptide(Fig.3B).Themigrationdifferencebetween de m onstratedth atgp 3,butal so gp3 -(cid:2)1a ndgp 3-(cid:2) 2o ligomer ise 5Lmutan tsand nativep rotei nss tron glysugges tanefficie ntcleav- in,atleast,co valen tho mo- dime rsandp roba blyinh ighermulti- age ofthesi gnal peptid einnativ egp3pr oteins.In de ed,5L-gp 3-(cid:2)1 me ric form s,asshow nforgp3-(cid:2)1 (Fig. 2C).Thea bs enceof detec- and 5L -gp 3-(cid:2)2h aveam ol ecular mas shighert hanthe nativegp3- tiono fhigher m ultimer icf ormothe rtha ndi mer sforgp3 an dgp3- (cid:2)1a ndgp3-(cid:2)2 .The 5L -gp3muta ntmi grated atalo we rmole cular (cid:2)2 cou ldbed uetotheir faint erexp ressi on.The oli gom erisa tion mas sth anthena tive gp3.Lor ussoeta l.(2008)h ad a lready observed Fig.5. ViralproductionofCCoV-IIinA72cellsexpressinggp3proteins.A72cellsweretransfectedwithplasmidscontainingtheindicatedsequencesandinfected12h post-transfectionwiththeCCoV-II1-71strain.Supernatant(A)andcellularextract(B)werecollectedat24h,48hand72hpost-infectionandprocessedforviralgenome quantificationbyquantitativeRT-PCR.Insupernatants,quantityofviralRNAwasnormalisedbythetotalamountofRNA.MeanexpressionofintracellularviralRNAcopy numbersnorm ali sedtoactina regiven ,us ingthe2(cid:2)Ct method.M e ansf romt ripli cateexperim en tsa regiv en.Error ba rsrep resen tstandardd ev iations. 166 A.-L.Pham-Hungd’Alexandryd’Orengianietal./VirusResearch202(2015)160–167 thatthepresenceofthesignalpeptideingp3inducedanaberrant ofgp3conservethesamebasicfeaturesandcouldhaveasimilar fastermigrationsimilartoourobservationherein.Thus,retention functionthanintactgp3. intheERofthegp3proteinsisnotduetoadefaultinthesignal In concordance with other studies, our data underline the peptidecleavage.Toinvestigatewhetherviralproteinsmayinflu- importancetoinvestigatetheroleofCoVaccessoryproteinsdur- encethesubcellularlocalisationofgp3proteins,A72wereinfected ingtheviraladaptationtonewhosts.Inthecontextofemergence withaCCoV-IIstrain,whichdoesnotexpressgp3,thentransfected ofhighvirulentCoVssuchasSARS-CoVorMERS-CoVarisingfrom withplasmidsencodingthedifferentgp3.Againinthisviralcon- animals, it remains important to understand the mechanisms of text,gp3proteinsarelocalisedintheER(Fig.4C).Altogether,these CoVpathogenicityandcross-speciestransmissions. resultsstronglysuggestthatthegp3proteinscouldbemaintained intheERthroughinteractionswithcellularfactors,asproposedby studiesontheORF8abproteinoftheSARS-CoV(Oostraetal.,2007). Acknowledgments Fromthecomparativestudyofthecompletegp3andthedeleted mutantg p3- (cid:2)1and(cid:2)2, weca n ded ucethat thefi rst 158 amino WethankfullyacknowledgeDrSophieRogéeforthepCDNAvec- acidscontainthenecessarysignalsforthebasicfeaturesofthepro- torandextendourgratitudetoDrMyriamErmonvalandDrMarie teins:thecysteineresiduesforoligomerisation,theN-glycosylation Flamandforthedifferentcellularcompartmentmarkers.Thiswork siteandtheunknownretentiondeterminantintheER.Thesecon- wassupportedbyagrantfromtheFrenchAgenceNationaledela servedpropertiesmightbeimportantfortheirfunction. Recherche(ANR)throughtheprojectentitled“Eco-epidemiology IntheabsenceoflaboratorystrainsharbouringORF3gene,i.e. of Coronaviruses, from wildlife to Human: Emergence threat CCoV-IstrainsortheatypicalFCoVstrains,theonlywaytostudy assessment” (Grant ANR-13-BSV3-0013-EPICOREM). Anne-Laure thedifferentgp3proteinsinvirusinfectedcellswastoinfecttrans- Pham-Hung d’Alexandry d’Orengiani was supported by a PhD fectedcellswithaCoVstrainthatdoesnotencodegp3.Asthegp3 fellowship from the Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, de proteinsarebetterexpressedincanineA72cellsthaninfelineCrFK l’Alimentation,del’Environnementetdutravail(ANSES)andthe cells,theimpactofgp3onviralreplicationefficiencywasinvesti- Direction Générale de l’Enseignement et la Recherche from the gatedintransfectedA72infectedbyaCCoV-IIvirus.Inthiscontext, FrenchministryofAgriculture(DGER). theviralproductionissimilarincellsexpressinggp3incompari- sonwiththeemptyplasmidtransfectedcellsoronlyinfectedcells (Fig. 5). 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