Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and type 2 protease monomers are functionally interchangeable in the dimeric enzymes.

AUTOR(ES)

Patterson, C E

RESUMO

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and HIV-2 proteases are dimers of identical subunits. We made a construct for the expression of recombinant one-chain HIV-2 protease dimer, which, like the previously described one-chain HIV-1 protease dimer, is fully active. The constructs for the one-chain dimers of HIV-1 and HIV-2 proteases were modified to produce hybrid one-chain dimers consisting of both HIV-1 and HIV-2 protease monomers. Although the monomers share only 47.5% sequence identity, the hybrid one-chain dimers are fully active, suggesting that the folding of both HIV-1 and HIV-2 protease monomers is functionally similar.

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