Human immunodeficiency virus env expression becomes Rev-independent if the env region is not defined as an intron.
AUTOR(ES)
Hammarskjöld, M L
RESUMO
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Rev protein functions to facilitate export of intron-containing HIV mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. We have previously shown that splice site recognition plays an important role in Rev regulation of HIV env expression. Here we have further analyzed the effects of splice sites on HIV env expression and Rev regulation, using a simian virus 40 late replacement vector system. env expression from the vector became completely Rev-independent when an excisable intron was positioned upstream of the env region, provided that env was not recognized as an intron. Complete Rev regulation was restored either by the insertion of a 5' splice site between the intron and the env open reading frame or by deletion of the 3' splice site of the upstream intron. These results show that 5' splice sites can function as cis-acting repressor sequence (CRS) elements to retain RNA in the nucleus in the absence of Rev. They also indicate that Rev regulation of HIV env expression is critically dependent on whether the env region is defined as an intron. This strengthens the hypothesis that Rev interacts with components of the splicing machinery to release splicing factors and enable export of the mRNA before splicing occurs.
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