Proline Residues in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 p6Gag Exert a Cell Type-Dependent Effect on Viral Replication and Virion Incorporation of Pol Proteins
AUTOR(ES)
Dettenhofer, Markus
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The C terminus of the HIV-1 Gag protein contains a proline-rich domain termed p6Gag. This domain has been shown to play a role in efficient virus release and incorporation of Vpr into virions. In a previous study (X. F. Yu, L. Dawson, C. J. Tian, C. Flexner, and M. Dettenhofer, J. Virol. 72:3412–3417, 1998), we observed that the removal of the p6 domain of Gag as well as drastic mutations in the PTAP motif resulted in reduced virion-associated Pol proteins from transfected COS cells. In the present study, amino acid substitutions at residues 5 and 7 of p6Gag resulted in a cell type-dependent replication of the mutant virus in CD4+ T cells; the virus was replication competent in Jurkat cells but restricted in H9 cells and primary blood-derived monocytes. Established Jurkat and H9 cell lines expressing p6Gag mutant and parental virus were used to further understand this defect. Mutant virions produced from H9 cells, which displayed no defect in extracellular virion production, showed an ∼16-fold reduction in Pol protein levels, whereas the levels of Pol proteins were only marginally reduced in mutant virions produced from Jurkat cells. The reduction in the virion-associated Pol proteins could not be accounted for by differences in the levels of intracellular p160Gag-Pol or in the interaction between p55Gag and p160Gag-Pol precursors. Electron microscopic analysis of the p6Gag mutant virions showed a predominately immature morphology in the absence of significant defects in Gag proteolytic cleavage. Taken together, these data suggest that the proline-rich motif of p6Gag is involved in the late stages of virus maturation, which include the packaging of cleaved Pol proteins in viral particles, a process which may involve cell-type-specific factors.
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