Je. Wellington et al., EXPRESSION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EQUINE HERPESVIRUS-1 GLYCOPROTEIN-D IN MAMMALIAN-CELL LINES, Archives of virology, 141(9), 1996, pp. 1785-1793
Equine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein D (EHV-1 gD) expressed constitutivel
y in mammalian cell lines had similar electrophoretic mobility to gD p
roduced in EHV-1 infected cells but lacked a possibly complexed higher
molecular weight form seen in the latter. Recombinant go was N-termin
ally cleaved at the same site as gD in EHV-1 infected cells and expres
sion was associated with enhanced levels of cell-cell fusion, indicati
ng a role for EHV-1 gD in cell-to-cell transmission of virus.