PNNL

Abstract

While the sequence of the AD169 HCMV genome has been known for several years, the viral and cellular proteins that compose the infectious HCMV virion and entry-competent, non-replicating viral particles such as Dense Bodies (DBs) and Non-Infectious Enveloped Particles (NIEPs) are unknown. To approach this problem we have utilized a gel-free 2-D capillary liquid chromatography (LC)-MS/MS and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) mass spectrometry to identify and determine the relative abundance of viral and cellular proteins in purified HCMV AD169 particles. !is study has identified and quantitated the proteins that compose both HCMV virions and DBs. While a number of previously identified proteins were detected by this method the number of viral proteins that compose the HCMV virion was doubled in this study suggesting that over a third of the viral open reading frames are part of an infectious virion. !is chapter will discuss the implications of our findings in relation to what was previously known about HCMV and MCMV virion composition.