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Journal of Virology, April 2003, p. 4577-4587, Vol. 77, No. 8
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.8.4577-4587.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Genetic Recombination Is More Frequent Than That of Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus despite Similar Template Switching Rates

Adewunmi Onafuwa, Wenfeng An, Nicole D. Robson,{dagger} and Alice Telesnitsky*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0620

Received 22 May 2002/ Accepted 13 January 2003

Retroviral recombinants result from template switching between copackaged viral genomes. Here, marker reassortment between coexpressed vectors was measured during single replication cycles, and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) recombination was observed six- to sevenfold more frequently than murine leukemia virus (MLV) recombination. Template switching was also assayed by using transduction-type vectors in which donor and acceptor template regions were joined covalently. In this situation, where RNA copackaging could not vary, MLV and HIV-1 template switching rates were indistinguishable. These findings argue that MLV's lower intermolecular recombination frequency does not reflect enzymological differences. Instead, these data suggest that recombination rates differ because coexpressed MLV RNAs are less accessible to the recombination machinery than are coexpressed HIV RNAs. This hypothesis provides a plausible explanation for why most gammaretrovirus recombinants, although relatively rare, display evidence of multiple nonselected crossovers. By implying that recombinogenic template switching occurs roughly four times on average during the synthesis of every MLV or HIV-1 DNA, these results suggest that virtually all products of retroviral replication are biochemical recombinants.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Michigan Medical School, 1150 W. Medical Center Dr., Room 5641, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0620. Phone: (734) 936-6466. Fax: (734) 764-3562. E-mail: ateles{at}umich.edu.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.

Journal of Virology, April 2003, p. 4577-4587, Vol. 77, No. 8
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.8.4577-4587.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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