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- Document 0409
- DOCN M9620409
- TI Genetic analysis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase and
- the U3 att site: unusual phenotype of mutants in the zinc finger-like
- domain.
- DT 9602
- AU Masuda T; Planelles V; Krogstad P; Chen IS; Department of Microbiology &
- Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine; 90095, USA.
- SO J Virol. 1995 Nov;69(11):6687-96. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96013761
- AB Retroviral integration is the step which leads to establishment of the
- provirus, cis- and trans-acting regions of the human immunodeficiency
- type 1 (HIV-1) retrovirus genome, including the attachment site (att) at
- the ends of the unintegrated viral DNA and the conserved domains within
- the integrase (IN) protein, have been identified as being important for
- integration. We investigated the role of each of these regions in the
- context of an infectious HIV-1 molecular clone through point mutagenesis
- of the att site and the zinc finger-like and catalytic domains of IN.
- The effect of each mutation on integration activity was examined by
- using a single-step infection system with envelope-pseudotype virus. The
- relative integration efficiency was estimated by monitoring the levels
- of viral DNA over time in the infected cells. The integration activities
- of catalytic domain point mutants and att site deletion mutants were
- estimated to be 0.5 and 5% of wild-type activity, respectively. However,
- in contrast with previous in vitro cell-free integration studies,
- alteration of the highly conserved CA dinucleotide resulted in a mutant
- which still retained 40% of wild-type integration activity. The relative
- levels of expression of each mutant, as measured by a luciferase
- reporter gene, correlated with levels of integration. This observation
- is consistent with those of previous studies indicating that integration
- is an obligatory step for retroviral gene expression. Interestingly, we
- found that three different HIV-1 constructs bearing point mutations in
- the zinc finger-like domain synthesized much lower levels of viral DNA
- after infection, suggesting impairment of these mutants before or at the
- initiation of reverse transcription. Western blot (immunoblot) analysis
- demonstrated wild-type levels of reverse transcriptase within the mutant
- virions. In vitro endogenous reverse transcription assays indicated that
- all three mutants in the zinc finger-like domain had wild-type levels of
- reverse transcriptase activity. These data indicate that in addition to
- integration, IN may have an effect on the proper course of events in the
- viral life cycle that precede integration.
- DE Amino Acid Sequence Animal Base Sequence Binding Sites Cell Line
- Cercopithecus aethiops Conserved Sequence DNA
- Nucleotidyltransferases/CHEMISTRY/*GENETICS/*METABOLISM DNA,
- Viral/GENETICS/METABOLISM Gene Expression Genome, Viral Human
- HIV-1/*ENZYMOLOGY/*GENETICS Kinetics Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed Oligodeoxyribonucleotides Phenotype
- Recombinant Proteins/BIOSYNTHESIS/CHEMISTRY/METABOLISM RNA-Directed DNA
- Polymerase/METABOLISM Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Support, U.S. Gov't,
- P.H.S. Transfection Virus Integration *Zinc Fingers JOURNAL ARTICLE
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
- protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).
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