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J Virol, May 1998, p. 4403-4407, Vol. 72, No. 5
Department of Molecular and Medical
Pharmacology and Crump Institute for Biological
Imaging,1
Departments of Microbiology
and Immunology and Medicine,2 and
Department of Pediatrics,3 UCLA School
of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095
Received 4 November 1997/Accepted 21 January 1998
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 capsid protein contains a
conserved
P217X4PX2PX5P231
motif. Mutation at Pro-222 decreases virion incorporation of
cyclophilin A, while mutation at Pro-231 abolishes infectivity.
Although viral RNA incorporation and protease cleavage of the Gag
precursor were not affected by these mutations, cryoelectron microscopy
revealed a loss of virion maturation in P231A particles.
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
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Cryoelectron Microscopic Examination of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Virions with Mutations in the Cyclophilin
A Binding Loop
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Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, A-324 CIBI, Box 951770, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Phone: (310) 206-7055. Fax: (310)
206-8975. E-mail: pstewart{at}mail.nuc.ucla.edu.
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