A 13-Amino-Acid Pit1-Specific Loop 4 Sequence Confers Feline Leukemia Virus Subgroup B Receptor Function upon Pit2

AUTOR(ES)

Dreyer, Kasper

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Feline leukemia virus subgroup B (FeLV-B) and gibbon ape leukemia virus (GALV) utilize the human protein Pit1 but not the related protein, Pit2, as receptor. A stretch of 9 amino acids, named region A, was identified in the putative fourth extracellular loop of Pit1 (residues 550 through 558) as critical for FeLV-B and GALV receptor function. However, the presence of Pit1 region A did not confer receptor function for FeLV-B upon Pit2, while it did so for GALV. We have here shown that the presence of two Pit1-specific loop 4 residues (tyrosine 546 and valine 548) in addition to Pit1 region A is sufficient to make Pit2 an efficient FeLV-B receptor; that is, a stretch of 13 amino acids encompassing all loop 4 amino acid differences between Pit1 and Pit2 comprises a C-terminal determinant for FeLV-B receptor function. Thus, the same limited receptor region is sufficient to confer receptor function for both viruses upon Pit2.

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