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Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein

To gain insight into the functional relationship between the capsid (CA) domains of the Gag polyproteins of simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and FIV, respectively), we constructed chimeric SIVs in which the CA-coding region was partially or totally replaced by the equivalent region of...

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Autores principales: Esteva, María J., Affranchino, José L., González, Silvia A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4252113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25462889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114299
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Affranchino, José L.
González, Silvia A.
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description To gain insight into the functional relationship between the capsid (CA) domains of the Gag polyproteins of simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and FIV, respectively), we constructed chimeric SIVs in which the CA-coding region was partially or totally replaced by the equivalent region of the FIV CA. The phenotypic characterization of the chimeras allowed us to group them into three categories: the chimeric viruses that, while being assembly-competent, exhibit a virion-associated unstable FIV CA; a second group represented only by the chimeric SIV carrying the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the FIV CA which proved to be assembly-defective; and a third group constituted by the chimeric viruses that produce virions exhibiting a mature and stable FIV CA protein, and which incorporate the envelope glycoprotein and contain wild-type levels of viral genome RNA and reverse transcriptase. Further analysis of the latter group of chimeric SIVs demonstrated that they are non-infectious due to a post-entry impairment, such as uncoating of the viral core, reverse transcription or nuclear import of the preintegration complex. Furthermore, we show here that the carboxyl-terminus domain (CTD) of the FIV CA has an intrinsic ability to dimerize in vitro and form high-molecular-weight oligomers, which, together with our finding that the FIV CA-CTD is sufficient to confer assembly competence to the resulting chimeric SIV Gag polyprotein, provides evidence that the CA-CTD exhibits more functional plasticity than the CA-NTD. Taken together, our results provide relevant information on the biological relationship between the CA proteins of primate and nonprimate lentiviruses.
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spelling pubmed-42521132014-12-05 Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein Esteva, María J. Affranchino, José L. González, Silvia A. PLoS One Research Article To gain insight into the functional relationship between the capsid (CA) domains of the Gag polyproteins of simian and feline immunodeficiency viruses (SIV and FIV, respectively), we constructed chimeric SIVs in which the CA-coding region was partially or totally replaced by the equivalent region of the FIV CA. The phenotypic characterization of the chimeras allowed us to group them into three categories: the chimeric viruses that, while being assembly-competent, exhibit a virion-associated unstable FIV CA; a second group represented only by the chimeric SIV carrying the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the FIV CA which proved to be assembly-defective; and a third group constituted by the chimeric viruses that produce virions exhibiting a mature and stable FIV CA protein, and which incorporate the envelope glycoprotein and contain wild-type levels of viral genome RNA and reverse transcriptase. Further analysis of the latter group of chimeric SIVs demonstrated that they are non-infectious due to a post-entry impairment, such as uncoating of the viral core, reverse transcription or nuclear import of the preintegration complex. Furthermore, we show here that the carboxyl-terminus domain (CTD) of the FIV CA has an intrinsic ability to dimerize in vitro and form high-molecular-weight oligomers, which, together with our finding that the FIV CA-CTD is sufficient to confer assembly competence to the resulting chimeric SIV Gag polyprotein, provides evidence that the CA-CTD exhibits more functional plasticity than the CA-NTD. Taken together, our results provide relevant information on the biological relationship between the CA proteins of primate and nonprimate lentiviruses. Public Library of Science 2014-12-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4252113/ /pubmed/25462889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114299 Text en © 2014 Esteva et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Esteva, María J.
Affranchino, José L.
González, Silvia A.
Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein
title Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein
title_full Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein
title_fullStr Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein
title_full_unstemmed Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein
title_short Lentiviral Gag Assembly Analyzed through the Functional Characterization of Chimeric Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses Expressing Different Domains of the Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein
title_sort lentiviral gag assembly analyzed through the functional characterization of chimeric simian immunodeficiency viruses expressing different domains of the feline immunodeficiency virus capsid protein
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4252113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25462889
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114299
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