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Journal of Virology, July 2007, p. 7280-7285, Vol. 81, No. 13
0022-538X/07/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/JVI.00406-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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Department of Viral Infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan,1 Laboratory of Viral Genomics, Center for Pathogen Genomics, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan,2 Cancer Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 941433
Received 26 February 2007/ Accepted 23 April 2007
Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) strains vary widely in their abilities to grow in Old World monkey (OWM) cells such as those of cynomolgus monkeys (CM). We evaluated eight HIV-2 isolates for their sensitivities to CM TRIM5
, an anti-HIV factor in OWM cells. We found that different HIV-2 isolates showed differences in their sensitivities to CM TRIM5
. Sequence analysis showed that TRIM5
-sensitive viruses had proline at the 120th position of the capsid protein (CA), whereas TRIM5
-resistant viruses had either alanine or glutamine. Mutagenesis studies indicated that the single amino acid at the 120th position indeed affected the sensitivity of the virus to CM TRIM5
.
Published ahead of print on 2 May 2007.
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