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J Virol, July 1998, p. 5399-5407, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Identification of Replication-Competent Strains of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Lacking Multiple Attachment Sites for N-Linked Carbohydrates in Variable Regions 1 and 2 of the Surface Envelope Protein

Julie N. Reitter and Ronald C. Desrosiers*

New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102

Received 22 October 1997/Accepted 21 March 1998

Carbohydrates comprise about 50% of the mass of gp120, the external envelope glycoprotein of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and human immunodeficiency virus. We identified 11 replication-competent derivatives of SIVmac239 lacking two, three, four, or five potential sites for N-linked glycosylation. These sites were located within and around variable regions 1 and 2 of the surface envelope protein of the virus. Asn (AAT) of the canonical N-linked glycosylation recognition sequence (Asn X Ser/Thr) was changed in each case to the structurally similar Gln (CAG or CAA) such that two nucleotide changes in the codon would be required for reversion. Replication of one triple mutant (g456), however, was severely impaired. A revertant of the g456 mutant was recovered from CEMx174 cells with a Met-to-Val compensatory substitution at position 144, 2 amino acids upstream of attachment site 5. Thus, a debilitating loss of sites for N-linked glycosylation can be compensated for by amino acid changes not involving the Asn-X-Ser/Thr consensus motif. These results provide a framework to begin testing the hypothesis that carbohydrates form a barrier that can limit the humoral immune responses to the virus.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Dr., Box 9102, Southborough, MA 01772-9102. Phone: (508) 624-8042. Fax: (508) 624-8190. E-mail: rdesrosi{at}warren.med.harvard.edu.

J Virol, July 1998, p. 5399-5407, Vol. 72, No. 7
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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