Properties of Wild-Type, C-Terminally Truncated, and Chimeric Maedi-Visna Virus Glycoprotein and Putative Pseudotyping of Retroviral Vector Particles

AUTOR(ES)

Zeilfelder, Udo

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We have characterized the properties of the maedi-visna virus (MVV) glycoprotein, which has a long cytoplasmic C-terminal domain, and of a panel of C-terminally truncated and C-terminally chimeric MVV-Env constructs. Cells expressing wild-type MVV glycoprotein form syncytia with target cells from many different species and tissues, demonstrating that the MVV-Env cellular receptor is widely distributed. Similar to the situation with other lentiviral glycoproteins, truncation of the C-terminal domain of MVV-Env significantly increases its membrane fusion capacity. However, despite their presence in a fusogenic form at the cell surface, neither the wild-type nor any of the C-terminally modified MVV-Env constructs, these latter lacking sterically inhibitory C termini, were able to successfully pseudotype murine leukemia virus- or human immunodeficiency virus-derived vector particles.

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