Intracellular Vesicle Acidification Promotes Maturation of Infectious Poliovirus Particles
Figure 5
Poliovirus entry, translation, and RNA replication are unaffected by treatment with inhibitors of vesicle acidification.
(A) H1-HeLa cells were infected with PV at an MOI of 50 pfu/cell. Cells were pulsed at the indicated h.p.i with 35S-labeled methionine for 1 h then lysed. Lysates were run on SDS-PAGE. Expected viral proteins are labeled according to recognized banding patterns. (B) Triplicate plates of H1-Hela cells were infected with PV at an MOI of 0.1 pfu/cell, virus RNA and host GAPDH RNA were measured by qRT-PCR. Virus RNA levels were normalized to GAPDH levels using the delta-Ct method. NH4Cl treatment was as described in Figure 4, and Guanidine HCl (2 mM) was added to the media at the time of infection. The data shown are pooled from three replicate experiments, and the titer of cell-associated virus collected at 6h.p.i. from each replicate was determined by plaque assay. (C) Triplicate plates of 293T cells were treated with 20 mM 3-MA for 2 hours prior to infection, and kept under treatment throughout infection. PV infections were done at an MOI of 0.1 pfu/cell. RNA levels and virus titers were analyzed as in (B). ** p<0.01, *** p<0.0001.