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J. Virol., Oct 1996, 6665-6672, Vol 70, No. 10
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

A fourth Sp1 site in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 long terminal repeat is essential for negative-sense transcription

A Peeters, PF Lambert and NJ Deacon
National Centre for HIV Virology Research, The Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Fairfield, Victoria, Australia.

We report the discovery of a fourth Sp1 binding site at the 5' end of the U3 region of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) long terminal repeat (HIV-1 Sp1 IV), localized to HXB2 nucleotides -433 to - 441. This site is shown to bind Sp1 protein specifically in electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Sp1 protein appears to bind to HIV-1 Spl IV with 5 to 10 times lower affinity than to a consensus Sp1 site. Mutation of HIV-1 Sp1 IV in an HXB2-derived long terminal repeat- chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter construct gave no significant change in positive-sense transcription but abolished both basal and phorbol myristate acetate-activated negative-sense transcription. Taken together, the results further define the HIV-1 negative-sense promoter as an Sp1-dependent, phorbol myristate acetate- responsive, and Tat-inhibited promoter initiating at HXB2 nucleotide - 450.

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