Previous Article | Next Article 
Journal of Virology, August 2005, p. 10571-10577, Vol. 79, No. 16
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JVI.79.16.10571-10577.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Capsid Processing Requirements for Abrogation of Fv1 and Ref1 Restriction
Mark P. Dodding,
Michael Bock,
Melvyn W. Yap, and
Jonathan P. Stoye*
Division of Virology, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, United Kingdom
Received 29 March 2005/
Accepted 20 May 2005
Murine leukemia virus is restricted in mouse cells lines by a host factor known as Fv1 and in human cell lines by Ref1. Genetic evidence indicates that these restriction factors target the virus capsid (CA) protein. Restriction can be overcome by adding virus at a high multiplicity of infection, indicating that the restriction factors can be saturated. Cells preexposed to restricted virus will allow infection by a second virus which would normally be restricted. This phenomenon is known as abrogation; it provides us with a tool with which to study the interaction of virus with restriction factors. We tested the abilities of several Gag processing mutants to abrogate restriction. Our results show that CA must be cleaved from both p12 and nucleocapsid in order for the incoming virion to interact with the restriction factor. Endogenous expression of properly processed CA, however, failed to abrogate restriction. These results suggest that as well as being processed, CA must also be properly assembled in the form of a condensed viral core in order to interact with Fv1 and Ref1. This polymeric structure may contain restriction factor binding sites not present in monomeric CA.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Medical Research Council, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-208/816-2140. Fax: 44-208/906-4477. E-mail:
jstoye{at}nimr.mrc.ac.uk.
Present address: Institut für Virologie und Immunobiologie, Universität Würzburg, Versbacher Str. 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany.
Journal of Virology, August 2005, p. 10571-10577, Vol. 79, No. 16
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JVI.79.16.10571-10577.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
This article has been cited by other articles:
-
Langelier, C. R., Sandrin, V., Eckert, D. M., Christensen, D. E., Chandrasekaran, V., Alam, S. L., Aiken, C., Olsen, J. C., Kar, A. K., Sodroski, J. G., Sundquist, W. I.
(2008). Biochemical Characterization of a Recombinant TRIM5{alpha} Protein That Restricts Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Replication. J. Virol.
82: 11682-11694
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Li, X., Sodroski, J.
(2008). The TRIM5{alpha} B-Box 2 Domain Promotes Cooperative Binding to the Retroviral Capsid by Mediating Higher-Order Self-Association. J. Virol.
82: 11495-11502
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Chen, J., Pathak, V. K., Peng, W., Hu, W.-S.
(2008). Capsid Proteins from Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVmac Can Coassemble into Mature Cores of Infectious Viruses. J. Virol.
82: 8253-8261
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Doronina, V. A., Wu, C., de Felipe, P., Sachs, M. S., Ryan, M. D., Brown, J. D.
(2008). Site-Specific Release of Nascent Chains from Ribosomes at a Sense Codon. Mol. Cell. Biol.
28: 4227-4239
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Yap, M. W., Lindemann, D., Stanke, N., Reh, J., Westphal, D., Hanenberg, H., Ohkura, S., Stoye, J. P.
(2008). Restriction of Foamy Viruses by Primate Trim5{alpha}. J. Virol.
82: 5429-5439
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Schaller, T., Ylinen, L. M. J., Webb, B. L. J., Singh, S., Towers, G. J.
(2007). Fusion of Cyclophilin A to Fv1 Enables Cyclosporine-Sensitive Restriction of Human and Feline Immunodeficiency Viruses. J. Virol.
81: 10055-10063
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Bishop, K. N., Mortuza, G. B., Howell, S., Yap, M. W., Stoye, J. P., Taylor, I. A.
(2006). Characterization of an amino-terminal dimerization domain from retroviral restriction factor fv1.. J. Virol.
80: 8225-8235
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Stremlau, M., Perron, M., Lee, M., Li, Y., Song, B., Javanbakht, H., Diaz-Griffero, F., Anderson, D. J., Sundquist, W. I., Sodroski, J.
(2006). From the Cover: Specific recognition and accelerated uncoating of retroviral capsids by the TRIM5{alpha} restriction factor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
103: 5514-5519
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
-
Emerman, M.
(2006). How TRIM5{alpha} defends against retroviral invasions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
103: 5249-5250
[Full Text]