Proteins of Rous-associated virus 61, an avian retrovirus: common precursor for glycoproteins gp85 and gp35 and use of pactamycin to map translational order of proteins in the gag, pol, and env genes.

AUTOR(ES)

Shealy, D J

RESUMO

Cells infected by Rous-associated virus 61 (RAV-61) contained a precursor-like protein, pr90, that was specifically precipitated by antiserum directed against envelope glycoproteins, gp85 and gp35. Tryptic peptide mapping showed that pr90 contained tryptic sequences of both gp85 and gp35. Pactamycin mapping experiments indicated that the two glycoproteins are translated from the env-mRNA in the order (5') gp85--gp35. The pactamycin mapping experiments also indicated a translational order of p10--(p27, p12)--p15 for the gag proteins; this agreement with the order previously reported from tryptic mapping studies on precursor pr76 of avian myeloblastosis virus implied that the stoichiometry of the core proteins was unchanged when virions were assembled in the presence of pactamycin. The reverse transcriptase proteins, unlike those of the env and gag genes, fell on the right side of the pactamycin map. This result is in accord with the idea that most, if not all, of the reverse transcriptase protein is translated by read-through of the gag(pol) message rather than by translation of a hypothetical pol-mRNA devoted solely to synthesis of that protein.

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