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J Virol, August 1998, p. 6356-6361, Vol. 72, No. 8
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

In Vitro Cell-Free Conversion of Noninfectious Moloney Retrovirus Particles to an Infectious Form by the Addition of the Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Surrogate Envelope G Protein

Akihiro Abe,dagger Shin-Tai Chen,Dagger Atsushi Miyanohara, and Theodore Friedmann*

Department of Pediatrics, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0634

Received 9 January 1998/Accepted 22 April 1998

In the absence of envelope gene expression, retrovirus packaging cell lines expressing Moloney murine leukemia virus (MLV) gag and pol genes produce large amounts of noninfectious virus-like particles that contain reverse transcriptase, processed Gag protein, and viral RNA (gag-pol RNA particles). We demonstrate that these particles can be made infectious in an in vitro, cell-free system by the addition of a surrogate envelope protein, the G spike glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-G). The appearance of infectivity is accompanied by physical association of the G protein with the immature, noninfectious virus particles. Similarly, exposure in vitro of wild-type VSV-G to a fusion-defective pseudotyped virus containing a mutant VSV-G markedly increases the infectivity of the virus to titers similar to those of conventional VSV-G pseudotyped viruses. Furthermore, similar treatment of an amphotropic murine leukemia virus significantly allows infection of BHK cells not otherwise susceptible to infection with native amphotropic virus. The partially cell-free virus maturation system reported here should be useful for studies aimed at the preparation of tissue-targeted retrovirus vectors and will also aid in studies of nucleocapsid-envelope interactions during budding and of virus assembly and virus-receptor interactions during virus uptake into infected cells. It may also represent a potentially useful step toward the eventual development of a completely cell-free retrovirus assembly system.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Pediatrics, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0634. Phone: (619) 534-4268. Fax: (619) 534-1422. E-mail: tfriedmann{at}ucsd.edu.

dagger Present address: First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan.

Dagger Present address: Center for Gene Therapy, Chiron Technologies, San Diego, CA 92121.

J Virol, August 1998, p. 6356-6361, Vol. 72, No. 8
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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