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Van de Water J, Deininger SO, Macht M, Przybylski M, Gershwin ME. Detection of molecular determinants and epitope mapping using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1997; 85:229-35. [PMID: 9400622 DOI: 10.1006/clin.1997.4434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- J Van de Water
- Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis 95616, USA
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Yip TT, Van de Water J, Gershwin ME, Coppel RL, Hutchens TW. Cryptic antigenic determinants on the extracellular pyruvate dehydrogenase complex/mimeotope found in primary biliary cirrhosis. A probe by affinity mass spectrometry. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:32825-33. [PMID: 8955120 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.51.32825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Affinity mass spectrometry (AMS) was used to evaluate the structural diversity of the E2 component of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) in normal and diseased liver cells, including those from patients with the autoimmune disease primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Two different antibodies to PDC-E2, the immunodominant mitochondrial autoantigen in patients with PBC, were used. AMS was performed directly on frozen liver sections and purified bile duct epithelial cells. Mass spectrometric signals associated with the molecular recognition of PBC-specific antigenic determinants were enhanced by an in situ enzyme-linked signal amplification process. Samples from patients with PBC gave strong positive signals for the antigen(s) recognized by the monoclonal antibody C355.1. Conversely, tissues from normal and disease controls showed only a minimal signal. AMS was used to identify specific antigenic determinants within the E2 component of PDC for comparison with unknown antigenic determinants observed by affinity capture with C355.1 monoclonal antibody from PBC samples. PDC components bound to C355.1 were mapped and identified by mass before dissociation from the E2 component. A similar approach was used to identify unknown antigenic determinants associated with PBC. We believe AMS may be an important new approach with wide application to the identification of molecules associated with a number of disease states.
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- T T Yip
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616, USA.
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Macht M, Fiedler W, Kürzinger K, Przybylski M. Mass spectrometric mapping of protein epitope structures of myocardial infarct markers myoglobin and troponin T. Biochemistry 1996; 35:15633-9. [PMID: 8961925 DOI: 10.1021/bi961727w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Monoclonal antibodies are widely used analytical tools in biochemical research. The knowledge of their corresponding epitopes is of major interest. One possible approach for epitope characterization is the application of protein antigen proteolysis in combination with mass spectrometric peptide mapping analysis. Two complementary analytical strategies were applied: (a) limited proteolysis of antibody-bound antigen followed by removal of nonbound peptides and detachment of the antigenic peptides (epitope excision) and (b) enzymatic digest of the antigen followed by extraction of the antigenic peptides with the antibody and detachment of antigenic peptides after removal of nonbinding fragments (epitope extraction). In the few examples published so far, immobilized antibodies were used for these studies. In this study we present a method for characterization of the epitope sequences without prior immobilization of the monoclonal antibody. The separation of nonepitope peptides from antibody-bound peptides was carried out by ultrafiltration. The epitope and nonepitope fractions were analyzed by MALDI-MS without further purification, and the epitope sequences were identified. The method was developed using a model system consisting of the synthetic C-terminal cyanogen bromide fragment CB3 of myoglobin and the commercial monoclonal anti-myoglobin MG1. In further investigations the epitope sequence of a synthetic 32 amino acid peptide derived from heart muscle protein troponin T toward a monoclonal antibody MAb-M7, which was raised against the intact protein, was characterized. With this approach the epitope binding site of this antibody was determined, and selective shielding of potential cleavage sites in the immune complex could be observed. Furthermore, statements about the three-dimensional structure of the bound antigen were made.
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- M Macht
- University of Konstanz, Germany
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Kaplan AH, Manchester M, Swanstrom R. The activity of the protease of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is initiated at the membrane of infected cells before the release of viral proteins and is required for release to occur with maximum efficiency. J Virol 1994; 68:6782-6. [PMID: 8084015 PMCID: PMC237104 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.10.6782-6786.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The final steps in the production of the type C retroviruses include assembly of the viral core particle and release of virions from the surface of the infected cell. The core proteins are translated as part of one of two precursors, Gag and Gag/Pol, which are cleaved by a virally encoded protease. We examined the interaction between the processing of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag precursor and the membrane-based assembly and budding of virions. Our results indicate that cleavage by the viral protease is initiated at the membrane of the infected cell during virus release and that protease activity is required for virion release to occur with maximum efficiency.
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- A H Kaplan
- Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine 90024
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Stewart L, Vogt VM. Reverse transcriptase and protease activities of avian leukosis virus Gag-Pol fusion proteins expressed in insect cells. J Virol 1993; 67:7582-96. [PMID: 7693975 PMCID: PMC238225 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.12.7582-7596.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Protease (PR)-defective avian leukosis virus particles display 300-fold-reduced levels of reverse transcriptase (RT) activity relative to wild-type particles. This observation suggests that during virion assembly RT is activated by proteolytic maturation of the Gag-Pol polyprotein precursor. To study the relationship between proteolytic cleavage and RT activation, we subjected PR-defective virion cores to digestion with purified viral PR and analyzed the structure of the major polypeptides produced as well as RT activity. Under conditions in which Gag precursors were fully matured, the RT domain was only incompletely released from the Gag-Pol precursor, remaining tethered to the upstream Gag domains PR or NC-PR. In the same reaction, RT activity was stimulated only three-fold, or 100-fold less than expected for a fully active RT. The poor activation suggested that the NC or PR domains could repress RT activity. To test this idea, we constructed recombinant baculoviruses expressing 19 different fusion proteins with upstream Gag or downstream Pol sequences attached to RT. Each protein was partially purified and assayed for its inherent RT activity. The results are consistent with the idea that Gag sequences can inhibit RT activity but indicate that the size of the Pol domain as well as the status of the PR domain (wild-type or mutant) also can profoundly influence activity. Several of the constructed Gag-Pol fusion proteins contained a wild-type PR domain. Some of these underwent intracellular PR-mediated processing, while others did not. All proteins in which the PR domain was preceded by upstream Gag sequences showed specific proteolysis. By contrast, all proteins initiated with a methionine placed one residue upstream of the natural N terminus of PR failed to show specific proteolysis. Amino-terminal sequencing of one such protein yielded the correct amino acid sequence and showed that the initiating methionine was not removed. One interpretation of these findings is that activation of PR requires the generation of the precise N terminus of the mature PR.
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- L Stewart
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Fontenot G, Johnston K, Cohen JC, Gallaher WR, Robinson J, Luftig RB. PCR amplification of HIV-1 proteinase sequences directly from lab isolates allows determination of five conserved domains. Virology 1992; 190:1-10. [PMID: 1529522 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)91186-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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HIV-1 replication requires limited proteolysis of gag and gag-pol encoded precursor proteins by a specific viral proteinase (PR). Sequences of 20 different HIV-1 strains were compared in order to determine regions of conservation and variability within the PR gene. Viral strains included: (a) five new ones derived from New Orleans patient isolates, (b) four established ones grown in our laboratory, (c) eight, whose sequences were published in the Los Alamos Data Base (1990), (d) one Ugandan, and (e) two Brazilian isolates. In the first two groups, HIV proviral DNA extracted from infected lymphocytes was grown in tissue culture and directly amplified by PCR using specific primers flanking the PR gene. Amplified DNA was directly sequenced using a modified di-deoxy sequencing procedure. Sequence data showed a 25% variation among the 20 different HIV strains studied at the amino acid level, including 8% nonconservative changes and 17% conservative changes. Moreover, five noncontiguous regions were able to be delineated in which the PR showed no amino acid changes. These areas included amino acids (I) 1-9 (amino terminal sequence); (II) 21-32 (sequence around the active site); (III) 47-56 (top of the flap); (IV) 78-88; and (V) 94-99 (carboxy terminal sequence). Our results are consistent with those obtained from X-ray crystallography studies as well as single site mutational analysis.
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- G Fontenot
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans 70112-1393
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Vogt VM, Burstein H, Skalka AM. Proteolysis in the maturation of avian retroviruses does not require calcium. Virology 1992; 189:771-4. [PMID: 1322601 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90603-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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After budding from the plasma membrane, retrovirus particles undergo a process of maturation, which includes changes in morphology caused by several proteolytic cleavages of the precursor of the internal structural proteins, products of the gag gene. Cleavage is mediated by the viral protease, PR. The fact that in most systems cleavage appears to occur only after assembly is complete, suggests that PR may become enzymatically active as a consequence of release of the virion from the cell. Using avian leukosis virus as a model system, we tested the hypothesis that leakage of calcium ions into newly budded virions plays a role in their maturation. We found that in both quail Qt35 cells and monkey COS-1 cells, maturation occurred normally in calcium-free medium and in the presence of EGTA. A calcium ionophore also did not affect maturation. We conclude that calcium influx does not act as a trigger for PR-mediated maturation.
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- V M Vogt
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Burstein H, Bizub D, Skalka AM. Assembly and processing of avian retroviral gag polyproteins containing linked protease dimers. J Virol 1991; 65:6165-72. [PMID: 1656090 PMCID: PMC250303 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.11.6165-6172.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Assembly and maturation of retroviral particles requires the aggregation and controlled proteolytic cleavage of polyprotein core precursors by a precursor-encoded protease (PR). Active, mature retroviral PR is a dimer, and the accumulation of precursors at sites of assembly may facilitate subunit interaction and subsequent activation of this enzyme. In addition, it has been suggested that cellular cytoplasmic components act as inhibitors of PR activity, so that processing is delayed until the nascent virions leave this compartment and separate from the surface of host cells. To investigate the mechanisms that control PR activity during virus assembly, we studied the in vivo processing of retroviral gag precursors that contain tandemly linked PR subunits in which dimerization is concentration independent. Sequences encoding four different linked protease dimers were independently joined to the end of the Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) gag gene in a simian virus 40-based plasmid vector which expresses a myristoylated gag precursor upon transfection of COS-1 cells. Three of these plasmids produced gag precursors that were incorporated into viruslike particles and proteolytically cleaved by the dimers to mature core proteins that were indistinguishable from the processed products of wild-type gag. The amount of viral gag protein that was assembled and packaged in these transfections was inversely related to the relative proteolytic activities of the linked PR dimers. The fourth gag precursor, which contained the most active linked PR dimer, underwent rapid intracellular processing and did not form viruslike particles. In the absence of the plasma membrane targeting signal, processing of all four linked PR dimer-containing gag precursors was completed entirely within the cell. From these results, we conclude that the delay in polyprotein core precursor processing that occurs during normal virion assembly does not depend on a cytoplasmic inhibitor of PR activity. We suggest that dimer formation is not only necessary but may be sufficient for the initiation of PR-directed maturation of gag and gag-pol precursors.
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- H Burstein
- Fox Chase Cancer Center, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
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Stewart L, Vogt VM. trans-acting viral protease is necessary and sufficient for activation of avian leukosis virus reverse transcriptase. J Virol 1991; 65:6218-31. [PMID: 1717719 PMCID: PMC250316 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.11.6218-6231.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The structural and enzymatic components of retroviral cores are formed by proteolytic cleavage of precursor polypeptides, mediated by the viral protease (PR). We described previously the construction of PR-defective avian leukosis viruses. These mutant viruses are noninfectious, and their major internal components are the uncleaved gag and gag-pol polyproteins (Pr76gag and Pr180gag-pol). The reverse transcriptase (RT) activity associated with the PR-defective virions is approximately 500-fold reduced relative to that of wild-type virions, suggesting that specific cleavages activate RT activity. To gain a better understanding of the role that PR plays in the processing and activation of RT, we performed complementation experiments wherein wild-type or PR mutant gag precursors were separately coexpressed with frame-corrected wild-type or PR mutant gag-pol precursors. The results demonstrate that, as in other retrovirus systems, gag-pol precursors can be assembled into virions only when they are rescued by a gag precursor. If the gag precursor is wild type, then the rescued Pr180gag-pol is completely and properly matured, irrespective of whether its embedded PR domain is wild type or mutant. In both cases, the virions produced are fully and equally infectious. This indicates that an active-site mutation in the PR domain of the gag-pol precursor has no effect on avian leukosis virus infectivity when particles are assembled from wild-type gag precursors. In contrast, if the gag precursor has an active-site mutation in PR or is deleted for PR, then the virions are noninfectious and the gag and gag-pol precursors remain unprocessed, even if the embedded PR domain of Pr180gag-pol is wild type. Thus, in this system, virion-associated Pr180gag-pol displays no detectable cis- or trans-acting PR activity. As assayed with an exogenous template, virions with processed gag-pol polyprotein display high levels of RT activity while those with unprocessed Pr180gag-pol display greatly reduced RT activity. These results demonstrate that during virion assembly, the PR supplied by a gag precursor is both necessary and sufficient for trans-activation of RT through proteolytic maturation of copackaged gag-pol polyprotein.
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- L Stewart
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Craven RC, Bennett RP, Wills JW. Role of the avian retroviral protease in the activation of reverse transcriptase during virion assembly. J Virol 1991; 65:6205-17. [PMID: 1717718 PMCID: PMC250313 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.11.6205-6217.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The retroviruses of the avian sarcoma-leukosis virus group synthesize their viral protease (PR) in two precursor forms--as a carboxy-terminal domain of the Gag precursor and as an embedded domain within the Gag-Pol precursor. We have shown previously that the Gag-derived PR is fully capable of processing the Gag precursor in the absence of the embedded PR (R.P. Bennett, S. Rhee, R.C. Craven, E. Hunter, and J.W. Wills, J. Virol. 65:272-280, 1991). In this study, we examined the question of whether or not the PR domain of Gag-Pol has an essential role in the maturation of the Pol proteins. The Gag-Pol precursor was expressed in the absence of Gag by use of a simian virus 40-based vector in which the gag and pol reading frames were fused. The fusion protein accumulated to high levels in transfected cells without being released into the medium but could be rescued into particles by coexpression of the Gag protein from a second vector. The resulting particles contained mature Gag and Pol proteins and active reverse transcriptase (RT). Using this complementation system, the effects of PR defects in the Gag and/or Gag-Pol proteins on the activation of RT were examined. The results showed that the presence of a functional PR on the Gag precursor, but not on Gag-Pol, was required for full activation of RT. The embedded PR of Gag-Pol was unable to carry out any detectable processing of the Gag precursor and was able to activate RT to only a low level in the absence of a functional Gag PR domain. Finally, some point mutations in the Gag-Pol PR domain inhibited activation of RT in trans by a wild-type PR, suggesting that the correct conformation of the PR domain in Gag-Pol is prerequisite for activation of RT.
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- R C Craven
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport 71130
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Jamjoom GA. Protease inhibitors as potential therapeutic agents for AIDS. Ann Saudi Med 1991; 11:568-75. [PMID: 17590795 DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.1991.568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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A decade since the epidemic of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized, a wealth of information has accumulated on the molecular biology of the causative agents, the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). Of particular interest is knowledge of the viral enzymes involved in the formation of new virus particles. Such enzymes constitute attractive targets for efforts aimed at selecting agents that interfere with virus multiplication and subsequent spread and pathogenesis. Already, several agents that inhibit the viral reverse transcriptase (e.g., nucleoside analogs such as Zidovudine) have proved to have a beneficial effect on the course off the disease, but their prolonged use has been associated with significant toxicity and the emergence of resistant mutants. A second enzyme that has recently attracted attention is the virus-coded protease. This enzyme is involved in the cleavage of viral precursor polyproteins into the final products that constitute the mature virus particle. Protease inhibitors interfere with the process of virus maturation which is required for the formation of infective virus particles. Several custom-made inhibitors with a high selective action against HIV protease have been produced recently. They are nonhydrolyzable peptide analogs that mimic the cleavage sequences of the natural substrate of the enzyme during the transition state of the cleavage reaction. It is hoped that a similar selectivity in vivo may make protease inhibitors a promising new category of AIDS therapeutics.
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- G A Jamjoom
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Suckau D, Köhl J, Karwath G, Schneider K, Casaretto M, Bitter-Suermann D, Przybylski M. Molecular epitope identification by limited proteolysis of an immobilized antigen-antibody complex and mass spectrometric peptide mapping. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:9848-52. [PMID: 1702219 PMCID: PMC55271 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.24.9848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Sequences of antigenic determinants were identified by limited proteolysis of peptide antigens bound to an immobilized monoclonal antibody and direct molecular weight determination of the monoclonal antibody-bound peptide fragments by 252Cf plasma desorption mass spectrometry. The epitope peptides to the monoclonal antibody h453 [Burger, R., Zilow, G., Bader, A., Friedlein, A. & Naser, W. (1988) J. Immunol. 141, 553-558] were isolated from immobilized antigen-antibody complexes by partial trypsin digestion. A synthetic eicosapeptide comprised of the C-terminal sequence of the human complement component polypeptide des-Arg77-C3a as well as guinea pig des-Arg78-C3a was used as an antigen. Conditions were developed under which trypsin specifically degraded the antigens without inactivation of the immobilized antibody. After proteolysis, epitope peptides were dissociated from the antibody with 4 M MgCl2. The antigenic peptides were purified by HPLC and identified by 252Cf plasma desorption mass spectrometry. The epitope recognized by h453 resides on the C-terminal tryptic peptides of human (residues 70-76) and guinea pig (residues 70-77) C3a. As an estimation of accuracy this method is able to provide, trypsin digestion of immune complexes caused cleavage of the antigen within a distance of two amino acid residues upstream from the epitope.
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- D Suckau
- Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany
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The structural and enzymatic components of retroviral cores are formed by proteolytic cleavage of precursor polypeptides, mediated by the viral protease (PR). We constructed an active-site mutation, D37I, in the PR of avian leukosis virus. The D37I mutation was introduced into an infectious DNA clone, and quail cell lines expressing the mutant virus were established. These cell lines produce normal amounts of virus particles, the major internal protein components of which are the uncleaved gag and gag-pol precursors. As in other retroviral systems, the protease-defective virions are noninfectious and retain the "immature" type A morphology as determined by thin-section transmission electron microscopy. The virion cores are stable at nonionic detergent concentrations that completely disrupt wild-type cores. Digestion of mutant virions with exogenous PR in the presence of detergent leads to complete and correct cleavage of the gag precursor but incomplete cleavage of the gag-pol precursor. The protease-defective virions encapsidate normal amounts of genomic RNA and tRNA(Trp) that is properly annealed to the primer-binding site, but some of the genomic RNA remains monomeric. Results from UV cross-linking experiments show that the gag polyprotein of mutant virions interacts with viral RNA and that this interaction occurs through the nucleocapsid (NC) domain. However, within mutant virions the interaction of the NC domain with RNA differs from that of mature NC with RNA in wild-type virions. Reverse transcriptase (RT) activity associated with mutant virions is diminished but still detectable. Digestion of the virions with PR leads to a fivefold increase in activity, but this PR-mediated activation of RT is incomplete. Since in vitro cleavage of the gag-pol precursor is also incomplete, we hypothesize that amino acid sequences N terminal to the reverse transcriptase domain inhibit RT activity.
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- L Stewart
- Section of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- S Oroszlan
- Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Carcinogenesis, BRI-Basic Research Program, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research Facility, MD 21701
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Avian Retroviral Protease and Cellular Aspartic Proteases are Distinguished by Activities on Peptide Substrates. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)94085-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The 3' end of the avian sarcoma leukosis virus (ASLV) gag gene encodes a 124-amino-acid protease (PR) responsible for processing the gag and pol polyprotein precursors into the mature virion structural proteins and the reverse transcriptase. Here we report the synthesis of the mature ASLV PR and a nucleocapsid (NC)-PR gag precursor fragment in Escherichia coli. E. coli extracts containing mature PR correctly cleaved a synthetic decapeptide homologous to a known ASLV cleavage site. Also, the NC-PR precursor fragment appeared to be correctly processed to produce NC and PR in the bacterial cells. This cleavage was blocked by a mutation in the putative active site of PR. These results strongly support the hypothesis that PR is involved in cleaving itself from the gag precursor.
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- M Kotler
- Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
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Terry R, Soltis DA, Katzman M, Cobrinik D, Leis J, Skalka AM. Properties of avian sarcoma-leukosis virus pp32-related pol-endonucleases produced in Escherichia coli. J Virol 1988; 62:2358-65. [PMID: 2836618 PMCID: PMC253392 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.7.2358-2365.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The gag-pol precursor protein of the avian sarcoma-leukosis virus is processed into three known pol-encoded mature polypeptides; the 95- and 63-kilodalton (kDa) beta and alpha subunits, respectively, of reverse transcriptase and the 32-kDa pp32 protein. The pp32 protein possesses DNA endonuclease activity and is produced from the precursor by two proteolytic cleavage events, one of which removes 4.1 kDa of protein from the C terminus. A 36-kDa protein (p36pol) which retains this C-terminal segment is detectable in small quantities in virions. We have constructed Escherichia coli plasmid clones that express the C-terminal domains of pol corresponding to pp32 and p36. These proteins have been purified by column chromatographic methods to near homogeneity. No significant differences could be detected in the enzymatic properties of the bacterially produced p32pol and p36pol proteins. Both possess DNA endonuclease activity and, like the pp32 protein isolated from virions, can cleave near the junction of two tandem avian sarcoma-leukosis virus long terminal repeats in double-stranded supercoiled DNA substrates. In the presence of Mg2+, both p32pol and viral pp32 cleave either strand of DNA 2 nucleotides 5' to the junction.
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- R Terry
- Roche Research Center, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey 07110
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Kotler M, Katz RA, Danho W, Leis J, Skalka AM. Synthetic peptides as substrates and inhibitors of a retroviral protease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:4185-9. [PMID: 2837759 PMCID: PMC280391 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.12.4185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Processing of the gag and pol gene precursor proteins of retroviruses is essential for infectivity and is directed by a viral protease that is itself included in one of these precursors. We demonstrate here that small synthetic peptides can be used as both model substrates and inhibitors to investigate the specificity and molecular parameters of the reaction. The results indicate that a peptide that extends five amino acids but not three amino acids in both directions from a known cleavage site is accurately hydrolyzed by the protease of avian sarcoma-leukosis virus. Substitutions of the amino acids to either side of the peptide bond to be cleaved affect the ability of the peptide (as well as a larger precursor protein) to serve as a substrate. The specificity is more stringent for the amino acid that will become the carboxyl end after cleavage. Some substitutions produced peptides that were not cleaved but could act as inhibitors of cleavage of a susceptible peptide. Thus, small model substrates may be used to explore both the binding and catalytic properties of these important proteases.
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- M Kotler
- Department of Molecular Oncology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ 07110
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Soltis DA, Skalka AM. The alpha and beta chains of avian retrovirus reverse transcriptase independently expressed in Escherichia coli: characterization of enzymatic activities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:3372-6. [PMID: 2453057 PMCID: PMC280211 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.10.3372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Reverse transcriptase of the avian sarcoma and leukosis retroviruses is a heterodimer composed of a 63-kDa alpha and a 95-kDa beta polypeptide chain, both of which are encoded in the pol gene and are produced by proteolytic processing of a larger precursor. We previously constructed a bacterial expression clone of the entire pol coding region that produces a protein 4 kDa larger than the mature viral beta subunit. By use of this clone and synthetic oligonucleotides to introduce stop codons, two derivatives have been constructed: one that directs synthesis of a protein equivalent to the mature beta subunit and the other that directs synthesis of a protein equivalent to alpha subunit. Predicted amino acid sequences of these proteins differ from their viral counterparts only by an initiator methionine that was added to the N termini for expression in Escherichia coli. Both bacterially expressed proteins exhibit reverse transcriptase activity and appear to function as homodimers. The properties of these proteins resemble those of the viral reverse transcriptase heterodimer; however, the bacterially produced alpha dimer protein could be distinguished from the other proteins by its increased sensitivity to heat inactivation, which also has been reported for the corresponding viral product. These results show that correct folding and expression of enzymatic function does not require formation of a precursor. The alpha and beta clones provide a convenient source of individual pol gene products for further evaluation of their roles in the synthesis and integration of retroviral DNA.
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- D A Soltis
- Department of Molecular Oncology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey 07110
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Wellink J, van Kammen A. Proteases involved in the processing of viral polyproteins. Brief review. Arch Virol 1988; 98:1-26. [PMID: 3277593 DOI: 10.1007/bf01321002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- J Wellink
- Department of Molecular Biology, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Katz RA, Skalka AM. A C-terminal domain in the avian sarcoma-leukosis virus pol gene product is not essential for viral replication. J Virol 1988; 62:528-33. [PMID: 2447290 PMCID: PMC250564 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.2.528-533.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The virion proteins encoded by the avian retroviral pol gene (reverse transcriptase and endonuclease) are formed by the proteolytic processing of a gag-pol fusion protein precursor. Recent studies have predicted that the avian sarcoma-leukosis virus pol precursor protein undergoes a previously undetected processing event resulting in the formation of common C termini for the endonuclease (pp32) and the beta subunit of reverse transcriptase (F. Alexander, J. Leis, D. A. Soltis, R. M. Crowl, W. Danho, M. S. Poonian, Y.-C. E. Pan, and A. M. Skalka, J. Virol. 61:534-542, 1987; D. Grandgenett, T. Quinn, P. J. Hippenmeyer, and S. Oroszlan, J. Biol. Chem. 260:8243-8249, 1985). This processing event removes 37 amino acids, thus defining a new pol domain. In this report, we present evidence that this C-terminal domain is translated as part of the gag-pol precursor but is not required for replication of the virus in tissue culture cells.
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- R A Katz
- Department of Molecular Oncology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, New Jersey 07110
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Dahlberg JE. An overview of retrovirus replication and classification. ADVANCES IN VETERINARY SCIENCE AND COMPARATIVE MEDICINE 1988; 32:1-35. [PMID: 2847500 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-039232-2.50005-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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This introductory chapter has presented an overview of how retroviruses replicate and how they are classified within the family Retroviridae. The genomic structure of retroviruses, so reminiscent of bacterial transposons and other similar genetic elements, and reverse transcriptase, which leads to the reverse flow of genetic information from RNA to DNA, are responsible for many of the properties of these viruses which make them both fascinating and important as causes of cancer and other diseases. The requirement for integration shared by most retroviruses leads directly to most of the phenomena resulting from their interaction with target cells. Certainly latency, at the level of the organism, is one such property relevant to how we think of vaccines and therapeutic reagents. The ability of retroviruses to acquire oncogenes from cellular DNA has greatly facilitated our understanding of the genetics of neoplasia. Additionally, the use of retroviral vectors to introduce new genes into genetically defective animals is a consequence of the genetic organization of retroviruses. Classification of viruses at the species level is difficult for several reasons. In particular, viruses do not sexually reproduce in any conventional sense, and it is difficult to identify a population of virions which make up a genetically distinct pool. Thus, the definition of individual species is often controversial and is not necessarily aided by the criteria used to define larger phylogenetic groups. In the latter case, retroviruses have distinctive morphological and biochemical features which allow their classification at the family, subfamily, genus, and subgenus levels. Additional classification occurs by accounting for factors such as host range, cross neutralization, ability to compete in interspecies radioimmunoassays, and genetic homology detected by hybridization under conditions of relaxed stringency. Direct comparison of nucleotide sequences offers the hope that mathematical criteria will be developed that can define the level of differences characteristic of individual species, genuses, and subfamilies.
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- J E Dahlberg
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Sheshberadaran H, Payne LG. Protein antigen-monoclonal antibody contact sites investigated by limited proteolysis of monoclonal antibody-bound antigen: protein "footprinting". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:1-5. [PMID: 2448767 PMCID: PMC279469 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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This study describes the use of limited proteolysis of monoclonal antibody (mAb)-bound antigens in the analysis of the two measles virus surface glycoproteins. This approach is dubbed protein "footprinting" in analogy with DNA "footprinting." Protein footprinting was superior to competitive-binding assays and as good as in vitro mAb-selected variant analysis in differentiating among mAbs with various specificities to a given protein. Proteolytic digestion of the antigen prior to mAb binding drastically reduced mAb binding resulting in poor differentiation among mAbs. In contrast, protein footprinting showed that some mAbs retained the ability to immunoprecipitate such fragments. Thus footprinting could be used for localization of mAb epitopes on a protein and proved also to be an effective means of distinguishing among mAb-selected variants differing in single epitopes. Conformational changes caused by heat-denaturation or the binding of anti-antibody to an antigen-antibody complex could also be detected by footprinting.
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- H Sheshberadaran
- Department of Virology, Karolinska Institute, State Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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Adams SE, Mellor J, Gull K, Sim RB, Tuite MF, Kingsman SM, Kingsman AJ. The functions and relationships of Ty-VLP proteins in yeast reflect those of mammalian retroviral proteins. Cell 1987; 49:111-9. [PMID: 3030564 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90761-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have identified the major structural core proteins of Ty virus-like particles (Ty-VLPs) and shown that they are generated by proteolytic cleavage of the primary translation product of TYA, p1. This precursor protein is therefore functionally similar to the gag precursor of retroviruses. Cleavage is mediated by a Ty-encoded protease located at the 5' region of TYB and is accompanied by a change in particle morphology. p1 contains sufficient information for the assembly of a pre-Ty-VLP complex, which does not require the presence of either Ty protease or reverse transcriptase. The results indicate that the requirements and pathway of Ty-VLP formation reflect the initial stages of mammalian retroviral assembly and further support the idea of a common origin for Ty elements and retroviruses.
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Alexander F, Leis J, Soltis DA, Crowl RM, Danho W, Poonian MS, Pan YC, Skalka AM. Proteolytic processing of avian sarcoma and leukosis viruses pol-endo recombinant proteins reveals another pol gene domain. J Virol 1987; 61:534-42. [PMID: 2433465 PMCID: PMC253978 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.61.2.534-542.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Three pol gene products have been identified in avian retroviral particles: the full-length 95-kilodalton (kDa) beta chain of reverse transcriptase and two proteolytic cleavage products of beta, a 63-kDa reverse transcriptase alpha chain derived from the amino terminus of beta and a 32-kDa (pp32) endonuclease from its carboxy terminus. By using molecularly cloned retroviral DNA and synthetic oligonucleotides to introduce initiator ATGs and codons corresponding to the authentic N termini, we constructed two bacterial-expression clones; one clone contains the entire pol gene, and the other contains the region encoding the pp32 domain. A 99-kDa protein was synthesized in Escherichia coli by the full-length clone, and a 36-kDa protein was synthesized by the endonuclease domain clone. The recombinant proteins exceeded the size of both the mature viral beta chain and the pp32, respectively, by approximately 4 kDa. These larger sizes, however, are consistent with predictions from the DNA sequence of the pol gene. Processing of the recombinant pol proteins was examined by using p15 protease purified from virus particles and antisera directed against synthetic peptides corresponding to three domains in pol. Proteolytic digestion of the 99-kDa product with p15 produced a 63-kDa protein that comigrated on polyacrylamide gels with the alpha chain of reverse transciptase and a 36-kDa fragment that comigrated with the endonuclease domain product. Further digestion of the 36-kDa protein yielded a 32-kDa protein that comigrated with viral pp32 endonuclease. Thus, we concluded that two p15-sensitive sites exist in pol. Cleavage at the previously identified site produces alpha, and cleavage at the newly discovered site removes approximately 4 kDa from the C terminus of the primary protein product. Since the 36-kDa protein was also detected in protein isolated from virus particles, it seems probable that processing at the C-terminal site is a normal step in the production of mature beta and pp32 endonuclease products.
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Crawford S, Goff SP. A deletion mutation in the 5' part of the pol gene of Moloney murine leukemia virus blocks proteolytic processing of the gag and pol polyproteins. J Virol 1985; 53:899-907. [PMID: 3882995 PMCID: PMC254725 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.53.3.899-907.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Deletion mutations in the 5' part of the pol gene of Moloney murine leukemia virus were generated by restriction enzyme site-directed mutagenesis of cloned proviral DNA. DNA sequence analysis indicated that one such deletion was localized entirely within the 5' part of the pol gene, did not affect the region encoding reverse transcriptase, and preserved the translational reading frame downstream of the mutation. The major viral precursor polyproteins (Pr65gag, Pr200gag-pol, and gPr80env) were synthesized at wild-type levels in cell lines carrying the mutant genome. These cell lines assembled and released wild-type levels of virion particles into the medium. Cleavage of both Pr65gag and Pr200gag-pol precursors to the mature proteins was completely blocked in the mutant virions. Surprisingly, these virions contained high levels of active reverse transcriptase; examination of the endogenous reverse transcription products synthesized by the mutant virions revealed normal amounts of minus-strand strong-stop DNA, indicating that the RNA genome was packaged and that reverse transcription in detergent-permeabilized virions was not significantly impaired. Processing of gPr80env to gP70env and P15E was not affected by the mutation, but cleavage of P15E to P12E was not observed. The mutant particles were poorly infectious; analysis indicated that infection was blocked at an early stage. The data are consistent with the idea that the 5' part of the pol gene encodes a protease directly responsible for processing Pr65gag, and possibly Pr200gag-pol, to the structural virion proteins. It appears that cleavage of the gag gene product is not required for budding and release of virions and that complete processing of the pol gene product to the mature form of reverse transcriptase is not required for its functional activation.
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Ro JH, Ghosh HP. Impaired cleavage of the joint gag-pol polyprotein precursor and virion assembly in a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus. Virology 1984; 135:489-502. [PMID: 6330981 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(84)90203-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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A temperature-sensitive coordinate mutant tsLA83 of Prague (PR-B) strain of Rous sarcoma virus at the nonpermissive temperature (41 degrees) produces noninfectious virus particles (NI-LA83) which contained only 3% of the reverse-transcriptase activity present in infectious virions. Analyses of [35S]methionine-labeled NI-LA83 showed the presence of all of the viral proteins except reverse transcriptase. Pulse-chase analyses of the virus-specified proteins in cells infected with LA83 or PR-B showed that the gag and glycoprotein precursors, Pr76gag and gPr95env, respectively, were processed at both 35 and 41 degrees. The reverse-transcriptase precursor, Pr180gag-pol, however, was not processed in LA83-infected cells at 41 degrees. In contrast, cells infected with LA83 or PR-B at 35 degrees as well as with PR-B at 41 degrees showed normal cleavage of Pr180gag-pol. A shiftdown of LA83-infected cells at 41 degrees to the permissive temperature 35 degrees resulted in the normal processing of Pr180gag-pol and production of infectious virus containing reverse transcriptase. Electron microscopic analysis showed that at 41 degrees cells infected with LA83 showed a large number of budding structures but fewer released particles. A shiftdown from 41 to 35 degrees resulted in an increase of virus particles with a concomitant decrease in budding structures suggesting that the processing of reverse-transcriptase precursor is related to virion assembly.
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Rous sarcoma virus contains sequences which permit expression of the gag gene in Escherichia coli. Mol Cell Biol 1984. [PMID: 6316124 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.3.10.1746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Several aspects of Rous sarcoma virus gene expression, including transcription, translation, and protein processing, can occur within Escherichia coli containing cloned viral DNA. The viral long terminal repeat contains a bacterial promoter, and viral sequences at or near the authentic viral initiation codon permit the initiation of translation. These signals can direct the synthesis in E. coli of the viral gag gene precursor Pr76 or, when fused to a portion of the lacZ gene, a gag-beta-galactosidase fusion protein. Pr76 is processed into gag structural proteins in E. coli in a process which is dependent upon the gag product p15. These observations suggest that E. coli can be used for the introduction and analysis of mutations in sequences relevant to viral gene expression.
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Mermer B, Malamy M, Coffin JM. Rous sarcoma virus contains sequences which permit expression of the gag gene in Escherichia coli. Mol Cell Biol 1983; 3:1746-58. [PMID: 6316124 PMCID: PMC370036 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.3.10.1746-1758.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Several aspects of Rous sarcoma virus gene expression, including transcription, translation, and protein processing, can occur within Escherichia coli containing cloned viral DNA. The viral long terminal repeat contains a bacterial promoter, and viral sequences at or near the authentic viral initiation codon permit the initiation of translation. These signals can direct the synthesis in E. coli of the viral gag gene precursor Pr76 or, when fused to a portion of the lacZ gene, a gag-beta-galactosidase fusion protein. Pr76 is processed into gag structural proteins in E. coli in a process which is dependent upon the gag product p15. These observations suggest that E. coli can be used for the introduction and analysis of mutations in sequences relevant to viral gene expression.
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Dubovi EJ, Geratz JD, Tidwell RR. Enhancement of respiratory syncytial virus-induced cytopathology by trypsin, thrombin, and plasmin. Infect Immun 1983; 40:351-8. [PMID: 6219957 PMCID: PMC264855 DOI: 10.1128/iai.40.1.351-358.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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A series of proteases of diverse substrate specificity were tested for their effect on respiratory syncytial virus-induced cytopathology. Three of the enzymes, thrombin, plasmin, and trypsin, were able to augment significantly the fusion of virus-infected A549 cells. On a concentration basis, thrombin was the most active promoter, followed by plasmin and then trypsin. Hirudin, a specific thrombin inhibitor, blocked the fusion-enhancing property of thrombin, yet had no influence on the basal rate of fusion in the absence of the enzyme. By contrast, the amidine-type inhibitors of trypsin-like proteases, bis(5-amidino-2-benzimidazolyl)-methane (BABIM), blocked not only the thrombin effect, but also the fusion in the thrombin-free controls. The suppressive activity of BABIM was observed at concentrations so low as to exclude any direct inhibitory effect on thrombin itself. These results make it seem very likely that thrombin advances cell fusion by activating a BABIM-sensitive protease. Plasmin and trypsin can be expected to act in a similar manner.
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We present the 9312 nucleotide sequence of the Prague C (Pr-C) strain of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV). A comparison of known protein sequences with the nucleotide sequence allows assignment of the coding regions for the gag, pol, env and src genes. The gag gene is terminated by an amber stop codon and is contained within a different reading frame than is the pol gene. The pol and env genes overlap. The sequences surrounding the src gene in the Pr-C and Schmidt-Ruppin (SR-A) strains of RSV have been compared, and they reveal that an element, E, of approximately 153 nucleotides is present on the 3' side of the src gene in Pr-C, and on the 5' side in SR-A. We hypothesize that E was part of a duplicated region of over 250 nucleotides flanking the src gene in an ancestral RSV, and that differential deletion of one copy of E led to its positional difference in Pr-C and SR-A.
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VARMUS HAROLDE. Retroviruses. Mob Genet Elements 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-638680-6.50014-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Donner P, Greiser-Wilke I, Moelling K. Nuclear localization and DNA binding of the transforming gene product of avian myelocytomatosis virus. Nature 1982; 296:262-9. [PMID: 6278322 DOI: 10.1038/296262a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 266] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Eisenberg RJ, Long D, Pereira L, Hampar B, Zweig M, Cohen GH. Effect of monoclonal antibodies on limited proteolysis of native glycoprotein gD of herpes simplex virus type 1. J Virol 1982; 41:478-88. [PMID: 6176725 PMCID: PMC256776 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.41.2.478-488.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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We examined the properties of 17 monoclonal antibodies to glycoprotein gD of herpes simplex type 1 (HSV-1) (gD-1) and HSV-2 (gD-2). The antibodies recognized eight separate determinants of gD, based on differences in radioimmuno-precipitation and neutralization assays. The determinants were distributed as follows: three were gD-1 specific, one was gD-2 specific, and four were type common. Several type-specific and type-common determinants appeared to be involved in neutralization. We developed a procedure for examining the effect that binding of monoclonal antibody has on proteolysis of native gD-1 by Staphylococcus aureus protease V8. We showed that several different patterns of protease V8 cleavage were obtained, depending on the monoclonal antibody used. The proteolysis patterns were generally consistent with the immunological groupings. With four groups of antibodies, we found that fragments of gD-1 remained bound to antibody after V8 treatment. A 38,000-dalton fragment remained bound to antibodies in three different groups of monoclonal antibodies. This fragment appeared to contain one type-common and two type-specific determinants. A 12,000-dalton fragment remained bound to antibodies belonging to one type-common group of monoclonal antibodies. Tryptic peptide analysis revealed that the 12,000-dalton fragment represented a portion of the 38,000-dalton fragment and was enriched in a type-common arginine tryptic peptide.
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Moloney murine leukemia virus, disrupted in concentrations of 0.1 to 0.5% Nonidet P-40, catalyzed the cleavage of p65, the gag gene polyprotein of the Gazdar strain of murine sarcoma virus, into polypeptides with sizes and antigenic determinants of murine leukemia virus-specified p30, p15, pp12, and p10. Cleavage performed in the presence of 0.15% Nonidet P-40 in water yielded polypeptides of approximately 40,000 (P40) and 25,000 (P25) Mr. In vitro cleavage performed in a buffered solution containing dithiothreitol in addition to 0.1% Nonidet P-40 allowed the efficient processing of P40 to p30 and a band migrating with p10. Immunoprecipitation with monospecific sera indicated that P40 contained p30 and p10, whereas P25 contained p15 and pp12 determinants. P40 and P25 are similar in size and antigenic properties to Pr40gag and Pr25gag observed in infected cells (Naso et al, J. Virol. 32:187-198, 1979).
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Donner P, Bunte T, Owada M, Moelling K. Biochemical characterization of pp60src-associated protein kinase from avian sarcoma virus Schmidt-Ruppin strain. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)68914-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Greiser-Wilke I, Owada KM, Moelling K. Isolation of monoclonal antibodies against avian oncornaviral protein p19. J Virol 1981; 39:325-9. [PMID: 6268819 PMCID: PMC171295 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.39.1.325-329.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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For the production of monoclonal antibodies against pp60src and the gag precursor protein Pr76gag, the spleens of mice bearing tumors that had been induced by avian sarcoma virus Schmidt-Ruppin D-transformed cells were used. One hybridoma culture produced antibodies that were directed against the p19 portion of the gag precursor. However, no antibodies directed against pp60src could be detected in any of the hybridoma supernatants. The anti-p19-producing hybridoma culture was cloned twice in soft agar, and a stable clone was used for the production of high-titer ascites fluid in mice. The monoclonal antibodies belonged to the immunoglobulin G subclass 2b. The antibodies precipitated Pr76gag and the processed virion-associated p19, as well as the 75,000-molecular-weight gag fusion protein from avian erythroblastosis virus-transformed bone marrow cells. Also, viral ribonucleoprotein complexes were specifically precipitable, indicating that they contain p19 molecules.
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Bunte T, Owada MK, Donner P, Boschek CB, Moelling K. Association of the transformation-specific protein pp60src with the membrane of an avian sarcoma virus. J Virol 1981; 38:1034-47. [PMID: 6264149 PMCID: PMC171243 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.38.3.1034-1047.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The transformation-specific protein pp60(src) coded for by avian sarcoma viruses and its associated protein kinase activity is present in virus particles of Rous sarcoma virus, Schmidt-Ruppin strain, subgroup D. Quantitative comparison of the immunoglobulin G-phosphorylating activity in Schmidt-Ruppin D virus and Schmidt-Ruppin D virus-transformed fibroblasts indicated that there was two- to fourfold less activity in the virus particles. Disruption of virus particles with nonionic detergent demonstrated that the protein kinase activity fractionated together with the viral membrane protein gp85. Therefore, viral membranes were isolated by floating detergent-disrupted virus through a discontinuous sucrose density gradient. At a characteristic density corresponding to 26% sucrose, viral membranes were identified by the radioactively labeled viral glycoprotein and furthermore by the membrane marker enzyme Na(+)-K(+)-stimulated, Mg(2+)-activated ATPase and were visualized by electron microscopy. Contamination by cell membranes could be ruled out, since (i) the virus preparation was free of cell membrane contaminants as judged from electron microscopy, (ii) floating of intact virus did not release membraneous material, and (iii) virus-free tissue culture fluid from Schmidt-Ruppin D virus-transformed nonproducer cells (which potentially contain cell membranes) did not contribute any immunoglobulin G-phosphorylating activity after mixing with nontransforming virus and pelleting it. Both pp60(src) and the protein kinase activity were found to be associated with the viral membrane. Solubilization of virus by detergent released two phosphoproteins, with molecular weights of 42,000 and 45,000 which reacted with sera specific for pp60(src) and revealed protein kinase activity but which were not membrane bound and may have represented degradation products of pp60(src). Surface iodination of intact virus particles (harvested at 3-h intervals) did not result in radioactive labeling of pp60(src), whereas collection at 24-h intervals allowed iodination of pp60(src). In contrast to the viral glycoprotein gp85, the iodinated virion-associated pp60(src) was insensitive to mild proteolytic treatment. Binding to tumorbearing-rabbit serum, immunoglobulin G phosphorylation, and endogenous phosphorylation of 60,000-, 45,000-and 42,000-dalton proteins required lysed virus and were not possible with intact virus. These results indicated that pp60(src) was embedded within the viral membrane. Membrane proteins phosphorylated in vitro were analyzed for their phosphoamino acid composition. Eight polypeptides exhibited phosphorylation in tyrosine and were absent in nontransforming viral controls.
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Yoshinaka Y, Luftig RB. Inhibition of murine leukemia virus Pr65gag cleavage in vitro and in vivo by hypertonic medium. J Virol 1981; 37:1066-70. [PMID: 6262525 PMCID: PMC171104 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.37.3.1066-1070.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Cleavage of murine leukemia virus Pr65gag is associated with the activity of a labile proteolytic factor found in virions. We have shown that the presence of 80 to 100 mM NaCl inhibits this cleavage activity in vitro by over 90%. Further, the addition of 80 to 100 mM excess NaCl in vivo to chronically infected cultures of MJD-54 mouse fibroblasts also caused inhibition of Pr65gag cleavage. Specifically, the excess salt added to cells: (i) caused a greater than 90% decrease in virus production; (ii) increased the Pr65gag/p30 ratio in virions produced by more than threefold; and (iii) in pulse-chase experiments, showed a 10-fold decrease in the amount of Pr65gag cleaved after 3 h. In contrast, during this chase interval there was only a slight diminution, i.e., about two fold, in the cleavage of env precursor polyprotein Pr80env, suggesting that cleavages of Pr65gag and Pr80env are differently controlled. Additionally, electron microscopic examination of the excess salt-treated cells showed a twofold increase in the number of associated immature particles, consistent with the observed higher than average Pr65gag/p30 ratio. The inhibitory effects were also found if excess KCl or MgCl2 was used instead of NaCl, suggesting that they are caused by the hypertonic state of the medium and are not dependent on the ionic species used.
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Demsey A, Collins F, Kawka D. Structure of and alterations to defective murine sarcoma virus particles lacking envelope proteins and core polyprotein cleavage. J Virol 1980; 36:872-7. [PMID: 6257930 PMCID: PMC353714 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.36.3.872-877.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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HTG2 hamster cells produce a defective murine sarcoma virus lacking gp70 and, consequently, viral surface projections (knobs), but the lack of knobs appears to have no effect on intramembrane particle distribution. In addition, it has been noted that the core of the virus remains in the "immature" form as a result of the failure of the polyprotein precursor (p65) to undergo cleavage. However, incubation of HTG2 virus with avian myoblastosis virus was found to yield specific cleavage products of p65.
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Linial M, Fenno J, Burnette WN, Rohrschneider L. Synthesis and processing of viral glycoproteins in two nonconditional mutants of Rous sarcoma virus. J Virol 1980; 36:280-90. [PMID: 6255212 PMCID: PMC353639 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.36.1.280-290.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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We have studied the pattern of glycoprotein synthesis in two nonconditional mutants of Rous sarcoma virus. One mutant, SE33, produces no viral particles but synthesizes Pr92env, which is cleaved intracellularly to mature glycoproteins. The second mutant, SE521, encodes a gPr92env which is not cleaved to gp85 or gp37 and therefore produces virions with the phenotype of Bryan RSV(-) or NY8. Neither of these mutants have detectable genomic deletions. The study of these mutants has led to the following conclusions. (i) In the absence of particle production or p15 synthesis, gPr92env can be cleaved to the mature glycoprotein which is found on the cell surface. (ii) Noncleaved gPr92env is not packaged into virions but is found on the cell surface. (iii) gPr92env alone can account for subgroup specific viral interference. (iv) gPr92env is probably transported to the cell surface before additional glycosylation or cleavage to mature virion glycoprotein. The nonprocessed precursor of SE521 appears to be glycosylated normally, and thus far we have been unable to determine the basis for the defect in this mutant.
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Eisenman RN, Mason WS, Linial M. Synthesis and processing of polymerase proteins of wild-type and mutant avian retroviruses. J Virol 1980; 36:62-78. [PMID: 6160263 PMCID: PMC353616 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.36.1.62-78.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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We have studied the biosynthesis of avian retrovirus proteins related to reverse transcriptase in permissive avian embryonic cells. Analysis of immune precipitates from avian sarcoma virus (ASV)-infected cells demonstrated the presence of the 180,000-dalton gag-pol "read-through" protein (Pr180gag-pol) and a 130,000-dalton polypeptide (Pr130gag-pol). Pr130gag-pol was found, in serological and peptide mapping studies, to consist primarily of sequences related to reverse transcriptase and the gag-encoded protein p15. Pr180gag-pol was found to be phosphorylated, whereas Pr130gag-pol was not. In addition, only Pr180gag-pol but not Pr130gag-pol was susceptible to cleavage with the virion protease p15. Although the structure of Pr130gag-pol would suggest that it is generated by removal of a portion of the gag region from Pr180gag-pol, an analysis of labeling kinetics has failed to demonstrate unequivocally whether Pr130gag-pol is a cleavage product of Pr180gag-pol or a primary translation product. We were repeatedly unable to detect either Pr180gag-pol or Pr130gag-pol in virus particles released from the cell, whereas both beta and alpha subunits were readily observed. Several presumed intermediates between Pr130gag-pol and the beta subunit of reverse transcriptase were also observed in virions. These studies indicate cleavage of polyemrase precursors at the time of virus budding. On the basis of these data, we present a processing scheme for the generation of reverse transcriptase subunits. We have also examined reverse transcriptase biosynthesis in cells producing two mutants that fail to package the enzyme. Previous work showed that integrated proviruses of both mutants are missing DNA sequences in pol: one mutant, PH9 (Mason et al., J. Virol. 30:132-140, 1979), contains a deletion near the 3' end of pol, whereas the other, SE52d (linial et al., Virology 87:130-141, 1978), may have inserted a host cell sequence near the 5' end of pol. Neither mutant synthesized Pr180gag-pol or Pr130gag-pol, but instead produced novel proteins comprised of sequences shared with gag proteins plus a region antigenically related to reverse transcriptase. Both proteins were defective as precursors to reverse transcriptase. Whereas Pr180gag-pol and Pr130gag-pol were precipitated by an antiserum raised against p32 (a virion protein derived from the portion of the beta subunit removed during processing of beta to alpha [Schiff and Grandgenett, J. Virol. 28:279-291, 1978]), the novel protein synthesized by PH9 ws not precipitated. This suggets that the alpha subunit is generated by a COOH-terminal cleavage of the beta subunit.
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