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Journal of Virology, June 2001, p. 5129-5140, Vol. 75, No. 11
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.11.5129-5140.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Primate and Feline Lentivirus Vector RNA Packaging and Propagation by Heterologous Lentivirus Virions

Matthew T. Browning,1 Russell D. Schmidt,1 Kathy A. Lew,1 and Tahir A. Rizvi1,2,*

Department of Veterinary Sciences, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, Texas 78602,1 and Department of Carcinogenesis, Science Park-Research Division, Smithville, Texas 789572

Received 21 December 2000/Accepted 14 March 2001

Development of safe and effective gene transfer systems is critical to the success of gene therapy protocols for human diseases. Currently, several primate lentivirus-based gene transfer systems, such as those based on human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV/SIV), are being tested; however, their use in humans raises safety concerns, such as the generation of replication-competent viruses through recombination with related endogenous retroviruses or retrovirus-like elements. Due to the greater phylogenetic distance from primate lentiviruses, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is becoming the lentivirus of choice for human gene transfer systems. However, the safety of FIV-based vector systems has not been tested experimentally. Since lentiviruses such as HIV-1 and SIV have been shown to cross-package their RNA genomes, we tested the ability of FIV RNA to get cross-packaged into primate lentivirus particles such as HIV-1 and SIV, as well as a nonlentiviral retrovirus such as Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV), and vice versa. Our results reveal that FIV RNA can be cross-packaged by primate lentivirus particles such as HIV-1 and SIV and vice versa; however, a nonlentivirus particle such as MPMV is unable to package FIV RNA. Interestingly, FIV particles can package MPMV RNA but cannot propagate the vector RNA further for other steps of the retrovirus life cycle. These findings reveal that diverse retroviruses are functionally more similar than originally thought and suggest that upon coinfection of the same host, cross- or copackaging may allow distinct retroviruses to generate chimeric variants with unknown pathogenic potential.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Veterinary Sciences, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 650 Cool Water Dr., Bastrop, TX 78602. Phone: (512) 321-3991. Fax: (512) 332-5344. E-mail: tarfm{at}aol.com.

Journal of Virology, June 2001, p. 5129-5140, Vol. 75, No. 11
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.11.5129-5140.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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