Mapping of the Structural Gene for the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Counterpart of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Glycoprotein C and Identification of a Type 2 Mutant Which Does Not Express This Glycoprotein

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Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 1984 Mar 1

PMID 6321760

Citations 36

Authors

K M Zezulak

P G Spear

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Abstract

The gene encoding glycoprotein F (gF) of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) was mapped to the region of the viral genome from 0.62 to 0.64 map units. This region is colinear with, and partially homologous to, the region of the HSV-1 genome previously shown to encode gC. Mapping of the gF gene was done by insertion of HSV-2 DNA fragments into the thymidine kinase gene of an HSV-1 virus and screening of the resultant recombinant viruses for the expression of gF. In this way, DNA sequences necessary for the expression of gF in infected cells were also delimited. Because several plaque morphology mutants (syncytial mutants) of HSV-1 have previously been shown to be gC-, a syncytial mutant of HSV-2 (GP) was tested for the expression of gF. It was found to be gF-, indicating that gF is not essential for replication of HSV-2 in cell culture, just as gC is not essential for replication of HSV-1. This result also suggests that the gF- and gC- phenotypes are related in the same, as yet undefined, way to the expression of a syncytial marker. A proposal to change the name of HSV-2 gF to gC (gC-2) is discussed.

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