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The role of the sequence of transmembrane and cytoplasmic/intraviral domains of influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA, subtype H7) for HA-mediated membrane fusion was explored. To analyze the influence of the two domains on the fusogenic properties of HA, we designed HA-chimeras in which the cytoplasmic tail and/or transmembrane domain of HA was replaced with the corresponding domains of the fusogenic glycoprotein F of Sendai virus. These chimeras, as well as constructs of HA in which the cytoplasmic tail was replaced by peptides of human neurofibromin type 1 (NF1) or c-Raf-1, NF78 (residues 1441 to 1518), and Raf81 (residues 51 to 131), respectively, were expressed in CV-1 cells by using the vaccinia virus-T7 polymerase transient-expression system. Wild-type and chimeric HA were cleaved properly into two subunits and expressed as trimers. Membrane fusion between CV-1 cells and bound human erythrocytes (RBCs) mediated by parental or chimeric HA proteins was studied by a lipid-mixing assay with the lipid-like fluorophore octadecyl rhodamine B chloride (R18). No profound differences in either extent or kinetics could be observed. After the pH was lowered, the above proteins also induced a flow of the aqueous fluorophore calcein from preloaded RBCs into the cytoplasm of the protein-expressing CV-1 cells, indicating that membrane fusion involves both leaflets of the lipid bilayers and leads to formation of an aqueous fusion pore. We conclude that neither HA-specific sequences in the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains nor their length is crucial for HA-induced membrane fusion activity.

Fusion Activity of Transmembrane and Cytoplasmic Domain Chimeras of the Influenza Virus Glycoprotein Hemagglutinin