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Journal of Virology, October 2000, p. 8854-8860, Vol. 74, No. 19
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Leader Sequences Downstream of the Primer Binding Site Are Important for Efficient Replication of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

Yongjun Guan,1 James B. Whitney,1,2 Karidia Diallo,1,2 and Mark A. Wainberg1,2,*

McGill University AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2,1 and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2B42

Received 2 March 2000/Accepted 6 July 2000

Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of macaques is remarkably similar to that of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in humans, and the SIV-macaque system is a good model for AIDS research. We have constructed an SIV proviral DNA clone that is deleted of 97 nucleotides (nt), i.e., construct SD, at positions (+322 to +418) immediately downstream of the primer binding site (PBS) of SIVmac239. When this construct was transfected into COS-7 cells, the resultant viral progeny were severely impaired with regard to their ability to replicate in C8166 cells. Further deletion analysis showed that a virus termed SD1, containing a deletion of 23 nt (+322 to +344), was able to replicate with wild-type kinetics, while viruses containing deletions of 21 nt (+398 to +418) (construct SD2) or 53 nt (+345 to +397) (construct SD3) displayed diminished capacity in this regard. Both the SD2 and SD3 viruses were also impaired with regard to ability to package viral RNA, while SD1 viruses were not. The SD and SD3 constructs did not revert to increased replication ability in C8166 cells over 6 months in culture. In contrast, long-term passage of the SD2 mutated virus resulted in a restoration of replication capacity, due to the appearance of four separate point mutations. Two of these substitutions were located in leader sequences of viral RNA within the PBS and the dimerization initiation site (DIS), while the other two were located within two distinct Gag proteins, i.e., CA and p6. The biological relevance of three of these point mutations was confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis studies that showed that SD2 viruses containing each of these substitutions had regained a significant degree of viral replication capacity. Thus, leader sequences downstream of the PBS, especially the U5-leader stem and the DIS stem-loop, are important for SIV replication and for packaging of the viral genome.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste-Catherine Rd., Montreal, Québec, Canada H3T 1E2. Phone: (514) 340-8260. Fax: (514) 340-7537. E-mail: mwainb1{at}po-box.mcgill.ca.

Journal of Virology, October 2000, p. 8854-8860, Vol. 74, No. 19
0022-538X/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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