Effects of second-site mutations on dominant interference by a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope glycoprotein mutant.

AUTOR(ES)

Buchschacher, G L

RESUMO

We have demonstrated previously that a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein containing a Val-to-Glu substitution at the second amino acid of the transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 (termed the 41.2 mutant) dominantly interferes with wild-type envelope-mediated syncytium formation and virus infectivity. To understand the mechanism by which the 41.2 mutant exerts the dominant interfering phenotype and thereby determine further how the mutant might be used as an inhibitor of viral spread, additional mutations were made in the envelope gene, and the effects of these mutations on interference were determined. It was found that processing of the 41.2 mutant glycoprotein in gp120 and gp41 subunits and a functional CD4-binding domain are necessary for the interfering phenotype to be exhibited fully. However, neither a wild-type V3 loop nor the gp41 cytoplasmic tail is necessary for efficient interference. In addition, it was determined that the dominant interfering phenotype is not conferred exclusively by the glutamate substitution at amino acid 2 of gp41, since a substitution with a basic residue at this position also results in a dominant interfering envelope glycoprotein.

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