ABSTACInfection of several types of cultured cells with the paramyxoviruses simian virus 5 and Sendai virus stimulates synthesis of four polypeptides (I-IV) with molecular weights of approximately 99,000,97,000, 86,000, and 78,000, respectively. That these are host polypeptides encoded in cellular mRNAs has been shown by the inhibition of their synthesis by actinomycin D and by the similarity of the peptide maps of them and of polypeptides with the same electrophoretic mobility from uninfected cells. Peptide mapping as well as identical migration in polyacrylamide gels has also indicated that polypeptides I, II, and IV are the same as plasma membrane polypeptides whose synthesis is enhanced in cells transformed by Rous sarcoma virus and in normal cells by glucose deprivation or treatment with 2-deoxyglucose. Polypeptides I and II appear to be the same polypeptides, with the observed differences in migration reflecting the glycosylation of polypeptide I, a relationship-previously shown to exist between polypeptides in glucose-deprived and glucose-fed cells. Infection with paramyxoviruses does not significantly increase the transport of glucose by cells, and the maintenance of a high concentration of glucose in the medium does not prevent the enhanced synthesis of these polypeptides. This is in contrast to the situation in transformedcells in which stimulation of synthesis of these polypeptides is secondary to depletion of glucose in the mediuwr due to increased glucose uptake by the cells. Thus, although paramyxovirus infection and transformation by Rous sarcoma virus result in stimulation of the synthesis of the same membrane polypeptides, the mechanism of stimulation differs.We have reported (1) that, in addition to the viral structural polypeptides and a nonstructural polypeptide, four polypeptides were synthesized in increased amounts in cells infected with the paramyxovirus simian virus 5 (SV5). These polypeptides, designated I-IV, had estimated molecular weights of 99,000, 97,000, 86,000, and 78,000, respectively. It was suggested that these were cellular polypeptides whose synthesis was enhanced by infection because: (i) (4, 7). On the basis of these results, these polypeptides have been referred to as "glucose-regulated proteins" (4). As described here, paramyxovirus infection, unlike transformation, does not cause a significant increase in glucose transport, and maintenance of a high glucose concentration does not prevent the enhanced synthesis of these polypeptides in paramyxovirusinfected cells. Thus, paramyxovirus infection apparently produces a perturbation in the cell membrane, different from transformation, that alters the rate of synthesis of these polypeptides.MATERIALS AND METHODS Cells. CV-1 cells (TC7 clone) were grown in Eagle's medium with 10% fetal calf serum, and HeLa cells were grown in reinforced Eagle's medium with 5% fetal calf serum as described (1) (Eagle's medium contains 5.5 mM glucose and the reinforced medium contains 22 mM glucose). Primary chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEFs) a...