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J. Virol., Sep 1997, 6315-6322, Vol 71, No. 9
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Nucleotide substitutions within U5 are critical for efficient reverse transcription of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 with a primer binding site complementary to tRNA(His)

Y Li, Z Zhang, JK Wakefield, SM Kang and CD Morrow
Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294, USA.

Sequence analysis of integrated proviruses of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) which utilize tRNA(His) to initiate reverse transcription [virus derived from pHXB2(His-AC-TGT)] revealed five additional nucleotide substitutions in the U5 and primer binding site (PBS) regions (ATGAC for CCTGT at nucleotides 152, 160, 174, 181, and 200, respectively) (Z. Zhang et al., Virology 226:306-317, 1996). We constructed a mutant proviral genome [pHXB2(His-AC-GAC)] which contained the ATGAC substitutions to test if they represented a necessary adaptation by the virus for use of tRNA(His) to initiate reverse transcription. Viruses from pHXB2(His-AC-TGT) and pHXB2(His-AC- GAC) were infectious. Sequence analysis of the U5 and PBS regions of integrated provirus from a cell culture infected with virus derived from pHXB2(His-AC-TGT) revealed a G-to-A change in CCTGT at nucleotide 181 after limited in vitro culture, suggesting that this nucleotide change represented an adaptation by the virus to efficiently utilize tRNA(His) to initiate reverse transcription. To further address this possibility, we used a specific mutation in reverse transcriptase (RT), a methionine-to-valine change in the highly conserved YMDD amino acid motif of HIV-1 RT (M184V), which has been shown in previous studies to influence the fidelity and activity of the enzyme. The M184V RT mutation was cloned into pHXB2(His-AC-GAC) and pHXB2(His-AC-TGT). Virus derived from pHXB2(His-AC-GAC) with M184V RT had slightly delayed replication compared to the virus from pHXB2(His-AC-GAC) with wild-type RT; in contrast, virus from pHXB2(His-AC-TGT) with M184V RT was severely compromised in replication. Using an endogenous reverse transcription-PCR assay to analyze the reverse transcription of viruses obtained after transfection, we found that viruses derived from pHXB2(His-AC-GAC) with the wildtype RT were slightly faster in the initiation of reverse transcription than viruses with M184V RT. The initiation of reverse transcription was delayed in viruses derived from pHXB2(His-AC-TGT) with wild-type RT and M184V RT compared to viruses derived from pHXB2(His-AC-GAC). Finally, sequence analysis of U5 and PBS regions of proviruses from pHXB2(His-AC-GAC) with wild-type RT revealed considerably more nucleotide substitutions than in viruses derived from pHXB2(His-AC-GAC) containing the M184V mutation in RT after extended in vitro culture. Our studies point to a role for these additional nucleotide substitutions in U5 as an adaptation by the virus to utilize an alternative tRNA to initiate reverse transcription.


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