The location and nature of enterovirus receptors in susceptible cells

Abstract

It is shown that enterovirus receptors are found mainly in the microsomal fraction of disrupted primate cells. Greater virus adsorption was exhibited by disrupted cells than by intact cells, indicating that enterovirus receptor may be present on intracellular membranes as well as on the surface of the cell. Poliovirus receptor is an integral part of, or is firmly attached to, the insoluble lipoproteins of the cell. All attempts to solubilize receptor have either destroyed virus-adsorbing activity, or have failed to separate it from sedimentahle lipoproteins. The destruction of poliovirus receptor activity by proteolytic enzymes, surface active agents, organic solvents, concentrated urea solutions, phenol, formaldehyde, etc., all strongly indicate that this receptor function depends upon integrity of a protein portion of the membrane lipoproteins. © 1961, Rockefeller University Press., All rights reserved.