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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
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).