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Journal of Virology, January 2003, p. 726-731, Vol. 77, No. 1
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.1.726-731.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Proteins Are Major Viral Determinants of Early, Postentry Replication Blocks in Simian Cells

Christopher M. Owens,1 Peter C. Yang,1 Heinrich Göttlinger,1 and Joseph Sodroski1,2*

Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,1 Department of Pathology, Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 021152

Received 29 July 2002/ Accepted 24 September 2002

The cells of most Old World monkey species exhibit early, postentry restrictions on infection by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) but not by simian immunodeficiency virus of macaques (SIVmac). Conversely, SIVmac, but not HIV-1, infection is blocked in most New World monkey cells. By using chimeric HIV-1/SIVmac viruses capable of a single round of infection, we demonstrated that a major viral determinant of this restriction is the capsid (CA) protein. The efficiency of early events following HIV-1 and SIVmac entry is apparently determined by the interaction of the incoming viral CA and species-specific host factors.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St.—JFB 824, Boston, MA 02115. Phone: (617) 632-3371. Fax: (617) 632-4338. E-mail: joseph_sodroski{at}dfci.harvard.edu.


Journal of Virology, January 2003, p. 726-731, Vol. 77, No. 1
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.1.726-731.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.