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Journal of Virology, August 1999, p. 7014-7020, Vol. 73, No. 8
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Mutations within Four Distinct Gag Proteins Are Required To Restore Replication of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 after Deletion Mutagenesis within the Dimerization Initiation Site

Chen Liang,1 Liwei Rong,1 Yudong Quan,1 Michael Laughrea,1 Lawrence Kleiman,1,2 and Mark A. Wainberg1,2,*

McGill University AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3T 1E2,1 and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3A 2B42

Received 20 January 1999/Accepted 16 April 1999

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genomic RNA segments at nucleotide (nt) positions +240 to +274 are thought to form a stem-loop secondary structure, termed SL1, that serves as a dimerization initiation site for viral genomic RNA. We have generated two distinct deletion mutations within this region, termed BH10-LD3 and BH10-LD4, involving nt positions +238 to +253 and +261 to +274, respectively, and have shown that each of these resulted in significant diminutions in levels of viral infectiousness. However, long-term culture of each of these viruses in MT-2 cells resulted in a restoration of infectiousness, due to a series of compensatory point mutations within four distinct proteins that are normally cleaved from the Gag precursor. In the case of BH10-LD3, these four mutations were MA1, CA1, MP2, and MNC, and they involved changes of amino acid Val-35 to Ile within the matrix protein (MA), Ile-91 to Thr within the capsid (CA), Thr-12 to Ile within p2, and Thr-24 to Ile within the nucleocapsid (NC). The order in which these mutations were acquired by the mutated BH10-LD3 was MNC > CA1 > MP2 > MA1. The results of site-directed mutagenesis studies confirmed that each of these four substitutions contributed to the increased viability of the mutated BH10-LD3 viruses and that the MNC substitution, which was acquired first, played the most important role in this regard. Three point mutations, MP2, MNC, and MA2, were also shown to be sequentially acquired by viruses that had emerged in culture from the BH10-LD4 deletion. The first two of these were identical to those described above, while the last involved a change of Val-35 to Leu. All three of these substitutions were necessary to restore the infectiousness of mutated BH10-LD4 viruses to wild-type levels, although the MP2 mutation alone, but neither of the other two substitutions, was able to confer some viability on BH10-LD4 viruses. Studies of viral RNA packaging showed that the BH10-LD4 deletion only marginally impaired encapsidation while the BH10-LD3 deletion caused a severe deficit in this regard.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: McGill AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, 3755, chemin Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3T 1E2. Phone: (514) 340-8307. Fax: (514) 340-7537. E-mail: mdwa{at}musica.mcgill.ca.

Journal of Virology, August 1999, p. 7014-7020, Vol. 73, No. 8
0022-538X/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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