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J. Virol., Jun 1996, 4157-4161, Vol 70, No. 6
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

Requirements for lymphocyte activation by unusual strains of simian immunodeficiency virus

Z Du, PO Ilyinskii, VG Sasseville, M Newstein, AA Lackner and RC Desrosiers
New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts 01772-9102, USA.

When residues 17 and 18 in nef of simian immunodeficiency virus strain SIVmac239 were changed from RQ to YE, the resultant virus was able to replicate in peripheral blood mononuclear cell cultures without prior lymphocyte activation and without the addition of exogenous interleukin- 2, caused extensive lymphocyte activation in these cultures, and produced an acute disease in rhesus and pigtail macaques (Z. Du, S. M. Lang, V. G. Sasseville, A. A. Lackner, P. 0. Ilyinskii, M. D. Daniel, J. U. Jung, and R. C. Desrosiers, Cell 82:665-674, 1995). These properties are similar to those of the acutely lethal pathogen SIVpbj14 but dissimilar to those of the parental SIVmac239. We show here that the single change of R to Y at position 17 in nef of SIVmac239 is sufficient to confer the full, unusual phenotype. Conversely, the lymphocyte-activating properties of SIVpbj14 were lost by the single change of Y to R at position 17 of nef. The change of R17F or Q18E in SIVmac239 nef did not confer the unusual in vitro properties. Since SIVpbj14 has a duplication of the NF-kappaB binding sequence in the transcriptional control region, we also constructed and tested strains of SIVmac239/Rl7Y with zero, one, and two NF-kappaB binding elements. We found no difference in the properties of SIVmac239/R17Y, either in cell culture or in vivo, whether zero, one, or two NF-kappaB binding sites were present. Thus, tyrosine at position 17 of nef is absolutely necessary for the unusual phenotype of SIVpbj14 and is sufficient to convert SIVmac239 to a virus with a phenotype like that of SIVpbjl4. Multiple NF-kappaB binding sites are not required for the in vitro properties or for acute disease.


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