The U3 Promoter and the nef Gene of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) smmPBj1.9 Do Not Confer Acute Pathogenicity upon SIVagm

AUTOR(ES)

Wagener, Stefan

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Two chimeric proviruses comprising the U3 promoter and the nef gene of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) smmPBj1.9 in addition to other genomic regions of SIVagm3mc from African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) were constructed. The derived chimeric viruses (SIVagm3mc/SIVsmmPBj1.9) were both able to replicate in nonstimulated peripheral blood leukocytes from pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina), a biological property often correlated with acute pathogenicity. However, only one of the chimeric viruses was acutely pathogenic, inducing a rapid depletion of the peripheral CD4+ T cells in two infected pig-tailed macaques within 10 days after infection in a manner similar to infection with SIVsmmPBj1.9 itself. The other chimeric virus actively replicated during the first 8 weeks after experimental infection of two pig-tailed macaques but induced neither acute disease nor CD4+ T-cell depletion for 113 weeks after infection. Thus, the U3 promoter and the nef gene of SIVsmmPBj1.9 alone appear to be insufficient to confer acute pathogenicity to SIVagm3mc.

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