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Folio C, Sierra N, Dujardin M, Alvarez G, Guillon C. Crystal Structure of the Full-Length Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Capsid Protein Shows an N-Terminal β-Hairpin in the Absence of N-Terminal Proline. Viruses 2017; 9:v9110335. [PMID: 29120364 PMCID: PMC5707542 DOI: 10.3390/v9110335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Revised: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a member of the Retroviridae family. It is the causative agent of an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in cats and wild felines. Its capsid protein (CA) drives the assembly of the viral particle, which is a critical step in the viral replication cycle. Here, the first atomic structure of full-length FIV CA to 1.67 Å resolution is determined. The crystallized protein exhibits an original tetrameric assembly, composed of dimers which are stabilized by an intermolecular disulfide bridge induced by the crystallogenesis conditions. The FIV CA displays a standard α-helical CA topology with two domains, separated by a linker shorter than other retroviral CAs. The β-hairpin motif at its amino terminal end, which interacts with nucleotides in HIV-1, is unusually long in FIV CA. Interestingly, this functional β-motif is formed in this construct in the absence of the conserved N-terminal proline. The FIV CA exhibits a cis Arg–Pro bond in the CypA-binding loop, which is absent in known structures of lentiviral CAs. This structure represents the first tri-dimensional structure of a functional, full-length FIV CA.
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- Christelle Folio
- Equipe Rétrovirus et Biochimie Structurale, Université de Lyon, CNRS, MMSB, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, IBCP, Lyon 69367 CEDEX 07, France.
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Centro Universitario Regional Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay.
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- Equipe Rétrovirus et Biochimie Structurale, Université de Lyon, CNRS, MMSB, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, IBCP, Lyon 69367 CEDEX 07, France.
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, Centro Universitario Regional Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, Paysandú 60000, Uruguay.
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- Equipe Rétrovirus et Biochimie Structurale, Université de Lyon, CNRS, MMSB, UMR 5086 CNRS/Université de Lyon, IBCP, Lyon 69367 CEDEX 07, France.
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Brown LA, Cox C, Baptiste J, Summers H, Button R, Bahlow K, Spurrier V, Kyser J, Luttge BG, Kuo L, Freed EO, Summers MF. NMR structure of the myristylated feline immunodeficiency virus matrix protein. Viruses 2015; 7:2210-29. [PMID: 25941825 PMCID: PMC4452903 DOI: 10.3390/v7052210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2015] [Revised: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 04/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Membrane targeting by the Gag proteins of the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV types-1 and -2) is mediated by Gag's N-terminally myristylated matrix (MA) domain and is dependent on cellular phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P2]. To determine if other lentiviruses employ a similar membrane targeting mechanism, we initiated studies of the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), a widespread feline pathogen with potential utility for development of human therapeutics. Bacterial co-translational myristylation was facilitated by mutation of two amino acids near the amino-terminus of the protein (Q5A/G6S; myrMAQ5A/G6S). These substitutions did not affect virus assembly or release from transfected cells. NMR studies revealed that the myristyl group is buried within a hydrophobic pocket in a manner that is structurally similar to that observed for the myristylated HIV-1 protein. Comparisons with a recent crystal structure of the unmyristylated FIV protein [myr(-)MA] indicate that only small changes in helix orientation are required to accommodate the sequestered myr group. Depletion of PI(4,5)P2 from the plasma membrane of FIV-infected CRFK cells inhibited production of FIV particles, indicating that, like HIV, FIV hijacks the PI(4,5)P2 cellular signaling system to direct intracellular Gag trafficking during virus assembly.
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- Lola A Brown
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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- Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA.
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- Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA.
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- Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
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Oliveira NMM, Trikha R, McKnight Á. A novel envelope mediated post entry restriction of murine leukaemia virus in human cells is Ref1/TRIM5α independent. Retrovirology 2010; 7:81. [PMID: 20929586 PMCID: PMC2959036 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-7-81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2009] [Accepted: 10/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND 'Intrinsic' resistance to retroviral infection was first recognised with the Friend virus susceptibility gene (Fv1), which determines susceptibility to murine leukaemia virus (MLV) infection in different murine species. Similarly, the tripartite motif (TRIM) family of proteins determine lentiviral restriction in a primate host-species specific manner. For example rhesus TRIM5α (rhTRIM5α) can potently restrict HIV-1 infection while human TRIM5α (huTRIM5α) only has a mild effect on SIVmac and HIV-1 infectivity (Lv1). Human TRIM5α is able to restrict MLV-N virus replication, but is ineffective against MLV-B or MLV-NB virus infection. Lv2 restriction of some HIV-2 viruses is seen in human cells. Like Lv1, Lv2 is a post-entry restriction factor, whose viral determinants have been mapped to the viral capsid (CA). Unlike Lv1, however, Lv2 is determined by envelope (Env) in addition to CA. Here we present evidence of a novel Env determined post entry restriction to infection in human cells of pseudotyped MLV-B and MLV-NB cores. RESULTS We generated retroviral vectors pseudotyped with various gamma and lentiviral Envs on MLV-B and -NB CAs containing a green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter. Flow cytometry was used to determine transduction efficiencies in NP2/CD4/CXCR4 (glioma cell line stably transduced with the HIV receptors) and HeLa/CD4 cell lines. The HeLa/CD4 cell line restricted both MLV CAs in an Env dependent manner, compared to NP2/CD4/CXCR4 cells. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QT-PCR) analysis of reverse transcription (RT) transcripts demonstrates that this restriction occurs at a post entry and RT level. siRNA knockdown of huTRIM5α ruled out a direct role for this cellular component in mediating this restriction. We describe a previously unobserved Env determined restriction of MLV-B and MLV-NB CAs in HeLa/CD4 cells when pseudotyped with HIV-2 and RD114 Envs, but not gibbon ape leukaemia virus (GALV), HIV-1 or Amphotrophic (Ampho) Envs. CONCLUSIONS Our data further demonstrate the variability of Env and CA mediated susceptibility to post entry host cell restriction. We discuss the relevance of these findings in light of the growing evidence supporting the complexities involved in innate host immunity to retroviral infection.
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- Nidia MM Oliveira
- HIV/AIDS Group, Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, 4 Newark Street, Whitechapel, London E1 2AT, UK
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- HIV/AIDS Group, Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, 4 Newark Street, Whitechapel, London E1 2AT, UK
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- HIV/AIDS Group, Centre for Immunology and Infectious Disease, Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, 4 Newark Street, Whitechapel, London E1 2AT, UK
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Di Nunzio F, Piovani B, Cosset FL, Mavilio F, Stornaiuolo A. Transduction of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells by Lentiviral Vectors Pseudotyped with the RD114-TR Chimeric Envelope Glycoprotein. Hum Gene Ther 2007; 18:811-20. [PMID: 17824830 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2006.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lentiviral vectors are efficiently pseudotyped with RD114-TR, a chimeric envelope glycoprotein made of the extracellular and transmembrane domains of the feline leukemia virus RD114 and the cytoplasmic tail of the murine leukemia virus amphotropic envelope. RD114-TR-pseudotyped vectors may be concentrated by centrifugation, are resistant to complement inactivation, and are suitable for both ex vivo and in vivo gene therapy applications. We analyzed RD114-TR-pseudotyped, HIV-1-derived lentiviral vectors for their ability to transduce human cord blood, bone marrow, and peripheral blood mobilized CD34(+) hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Transduction efficiency was analyzed in CD34(+) cells in liquid culture, in CD34(+) clonogenic progenitors in semisolid culture, and in CD34(+) repopulating stem cells after xenotransplantation in NOD-SCID mice. Compared with a standard VSV-G-based packaging system, RD114-TR-pseudotyped particles transduced hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells at lower multiplicity of infection, with lower toxicity and less pseudo-transduction at comparable vector copy number per genome. Potential changes in the CD34(+) cell transcription profile and phenotype on transduction with RD114-TR-pseudotyped vectors was comparatively investigated by microarray analysis. Our study shows that the biology of repopulating hematopoietic stem cells and their progeny is not affected by transduction with RD114-TR-pseudotyped lentiviral vectors. RD114-TR is compatible with the development of lentiviral stable packaging cell lines, and may become the envelope of choice for clinical studies aiming at safe and efficient genetic modification of human hematopoietic stem cells.
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We evaluated the predicted biochemical properties of Gag proteins from a diverse group of feline immunodeficiency viruses (FIV) to determine how different evolutionary histories of virus and host have changed or constrained these important structural proteins. Our data are based on FIV sequences derived from domestic cat (FIVfca), cougar (FIVpco), and lions (FIVple). Analyses consisted of determining the selective forces acting at each position in the protein and the comparing predictions for secondary structure, charge, hydrophobicity and flexibility for matrix, capsid and nucleocapsid, and the C-terminal peptide, which comprise the Gag proteins. We demonstrate that differences among the FIV Gag proteins have largely arisen by neutral evolution, although many neutrally evolving regions have maintained biochemical features. Regions with predicted differences in biochemical features appear to involve intramolecular interactions and structural elements that undergo conformational changes during particle maturation. In contrast, the majority of sites involved in intermolecular contacts on the protein surface are constrained by purifying selection. There is also conservation of sites that interact with host proteins associated with cellular trafficking and particle budding. NC is the only protein with evidence of positive selection, two of which occur in the N-terminal region responsible for RNA binding and interaction with host proteins.
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- Evan Burkala
- Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
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D'Ursi AM, Giannecchini S, Esposito C, Alcaro MC, Sichi O, Armenante MR, Carotenuto A, Papini AM, Bendinelli M, Rovero P. Development of antiviral fusion inhibitors: short modified peptides derived from the transmembrane glycoprotein of feline immunodeficiency virus. Chembiochem 2006; 7:774-9. [PMID: 16566046 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200500390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a naturally occurring pathogen that causes an AIDS-like syndrome in domestic cats and is a valuable model system by which criteria for antiviral vaccines and drugs development can be tested. The cell-entry step of the lentivirus life cycle is regarded as a promising target for the development of new generation inhibitors. We have previously described potent in vitro anti-FIV activity associated with a synthetic octapeptide, termed C8 (Ac-Trp-Glu-Asp-Trp-Val-Gly-Trp-Ile-NH2), containing the Trp-rich motif of FIV transmembrane glycoprotein, which shares a common structural framework with the corresponding molecule of HIV and appears to play a similar role in cell entry. In this report, in an attempt to develop simpler potential fusion inhibitors to be tested in vivo, we describe further studies focused on synthetic peptide analogues of C8. Since C8 inhibitory activity is dependent upon the Trp motif, we systematically replaced these residues with bulky and/or aromatic natural and unnatural amino acids, in order to develop a rational structure-activity relationship. Furthermore, the amino acids located between the Trp residues, which are not crucial for inhibitory activity, were replaced by simple alkyl spacers of appropriate length. Design, NMR structural analysis, in vitro anti-FIV activity in lymphoid cell cultures, and serum stability of these new analogues are reported. The final results indicate that a simpler hexapeptide (Ac-Nal2-Ape-Nal2-Ape-Nal2-Ile-NH2; Nal2 = 3-naphthalen-2-yl-L-alanine, Ape = 5-aminopentanoic acid), almost entirely made up of unnatural amino acid residues, has markedly increased enzymatic stability, while maintaining strong antiviral potency in vitro.
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- Anna Maria D'Ursi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
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Llano M, Vanegas M, Fregoso O, Saenz D, Chung S, Peretz M, Poeschla EM. LEDGF/p75 determines cellular trafficking of diverse lentiviral but not murine oncoretroviral integrase proteins and is a component of functional lentiviral preintegration complexes. J Virol 2004; 78:9524-37. [PMID: 15308744 PMCID: PMC506940 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.17.9524-9537.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 247] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), and Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMLV) integrases were stably expressed to determine their intracellular trafficking. Each lentiviral integrase localized to cell nuclei in close association with chromatin while the murine oncoretroviral integrase was cytoplasmic. Fusions of pyruvate kinase to the lentiviral integrases did not reveal transferable nuclear localization signals. The intracellular trafficking of each was determined instead by the transcriptional coactivator LEDGF/p75, which was required for nuclear localization. Stable small interfering RNA expression eliminated detectable LEDGF/p75 expression and caused dramatic, stable redistribution of each lentiviral integrase from nucleus to cytoplasm while the distribution of MoMLV integrase was unaffected. In addition, endogenous LEDGF/p75 coimmunoprecipitated specifically with each lentiviral integrase. In vitro integration assays with preintegration complexes (PICs) showed that endogenous LEDGF/p75 is a component of functional HIV-1 and FIV PICs. However, HIV-1 and FIV infection and replication in LEDGF/p75-deficient cells was equivalent to that in control cells, whether cells were dividing or growth arrested. Two-long terminal repeat circle accumulation in nondividing cell nuclei was also equivalent to that of LEDGF/p75 wild-type cells. Virions produced in LEDGF/p75-deficient cells had normal infectivity. We conclude that LEDGF/p75 fully accounts for cellular trafficking of diverse lentiviral, but not oncoretroviral, integrases and is the main lentiviral integrase-to-chromatin tethering factor. While lentiviral PIC nuclear import is unaffected by LEDGF/p75 knockdown, this protein is a component of functional lentiviral PICs. A role in HIV-1 integration site distribution merits investigation.
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- Manuel Llano
- Molecular Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Giannecchini S, Bonci F, Pistello M, Matteucci D, Sichi O, Rovero P, Bendinelli M. The membrane-proximal tryptophan-rich region in the transmembrane glycoprotein ectodomain of feline immunodeficiency virus is important for cell entry. Virology 2004; 320:156-66. [PMID: 15003871 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2003] [Revised: 12/01/2003] [Accepted: 12/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The mechanisms whereby feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) adsorbs and enters into susceptible cells are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the role exerted in such functions by the tryptophan (Trp)-rich motif present membrane-proximally in the ectodomain of the FIV transmembrane glycoprotein. Starting from p34TF10, which encodes the entire genome of FIV Petaluma, we produced 11 mutated clones having the Trp-rich motif scrambled or variously deleted or substituted. All mutated progenies adsorbed normally to cells, but the ones with severe disruptions of the motif failed to generate proviral DNA. In the latter mutants, proviral DNA formation was restored by providing an independent source of intact FIV envelope glycoproteins or by addition of the fusing agent polyethylene glycol, thus clearly indicating that their defect resided primarily at the level of cell entry. In addition, the replication-competent mutants exhibited a generally enhanced susceptibility to selected entry inhibitory synthetic peptides, suggestive of a reduced efficiency of the entry step.
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- Simone Giannecchini
- Retrovirus Center and Virology Section, Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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Among non-primate vertebrates, feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection in the cat may be the closest model of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Clinical evolution and immunological and virological relationships between human HIV/AIDS and disease produced by FIV infection in cats are very close. These similarities should facilitate progress in the understanding of mechanisms of viral infection and immunopathology, and make this model potentially very valuable in evaluation of experimental therapeutic approaches to AIDS in man. Development of feline immunodeficiency virus vectors bearing therapeutic genes targeting different human diseases is a promising strategy for gene therapy, despite some recent studies which suggest that despite lack of evidence of infection of man by FIV, additional epidemiological surveillance may be indicated to determine if transmission can occur from this close companion to humans in some circumstances.
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- Luis Isamu Barros Kanzaki
- Federal University of Amapa, Departament of Microbiology, Rodovia Juscelino Kubtscheck de Oliveira, Km 02. Macapa, Amapa, Brasil
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D'Ursi AM, Giannecchini S, Di Fenza A, Esposito C, Armenante MR, Carotenuto A, Bendinelli M, Rovero P. Retroinverso analogue of the antiviral octapeptide C8 inhibits feline immunodeficiency virus in serum. J Med Chem 2003; 46:1807-10. [PMID: 12723944 DOI: 10.1021/jm034012h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We described the antiviral activity of an octapeptide corresponding to a Trp-rich domain of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) transmembrane glycoprotein. To overcome the limited enzymatic stability of short peptides, the retroinverso analogue was prepared and tested for inhibitory activity of FIV in the presence or absence of normal cat serum. Differently from the unmodified peptide, the retroinverso analogue maintains strong inhibitory activity in serum. NMR studies showed that it displays crucial conformational features believed to be important for antiviral activity.
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- Anna Maria D'Ursi
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno, I-84084 Fisciano, Italy
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The feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) accessory factor, OrfA, facilitates transactivation of transcription directed by elements of the viral long terminal repeat (LTR). In order to map OrfA domains required for this transactivation, we used N- and C-terminal deletion constructs of the protein, expressed in a Gal4-based transactivation system. The results demonstrated that FIV OrfA, unlike other lentiviral transactivators such as visna virus Tat, is unable to transactivate from minimal promoter-based reporters and requires additional elements of the viral LTR. Stable CrFK-based cell lines were prepared that expressed OrfA to readily detectable levels and in which we were able to demonstrate 32-fold transactivation of an LTR-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase construct. Transactivation was heavily dependent on the presence of an ATF site within the viral LTR. Changing the translation initiation codon context substantially increased the level of production of OrfA from a bicistronic message that also encodes Rev. In the presence of a more favorable context sequence, the upstream expression of OrfA increased 21-fold, with only a 0.5-fold drop in downstream Rev expression. This suggests that Rev translation may occur via an internal ribosomal entry site rather than by leaky scanning.
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- Udayan Chatterji
- Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Moscardini M, Pistello M, Bendinelli M, Ficheux D, Miller JT, Gabus C, Le Grice SFJ, Surewicz WK, Darlix JL. Functional interactions of nucleocapsid protein of feline immunodeficiency virus and cellular prion protein with the viral RNA. J Mol Biol 2002; 318:149-59. [PMID: 12054775 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(02)00092-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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All lentiviruses and oncoretroviruses examined so far encode a major nucleic-acid binding protein (nucleocapsid or NC* protein), approximately 2500 molecules of which coat the dimeric RNA genome. Studies on HIV-1 and MoMuLV using in vitro model systems and in vivo have shown that NC protein is required to chaperone viral RNA dimerization and packaging during virus assembly, and proviral DNA synthesis by reverse transcriptase (RT) during infection. The human cellular prion protein (PrP), thought to be the major component of the agent causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), was recently found to possess a strong affinity for nucleic acids and to exhibit chaperone properties very similar to HIV-1 NC protein in the HIV-1 context in vitro. Tight binding of PrP to nucleic acids is proposed to participate directly in the prion disease process. To extend our understanding of lentiviruses and of the unexpected nucleic acid chaperone properties of the human prion protein, we set up an in vitro system to investigate replication of the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which is functionally and phylogenetically distant from HIV-1. The results show that in the FIV model system, NC protein chaperones viral RNA dimerization, primer tRNA(Lys,3) annealing to the genomic primer-binding site (PBS) and minus strand DNA synthesis by the homologous FIV RT. FIV NC protein is able to trigger specific viral DNA synthesis by inhibiting self-priming of reverse transcription. The human prion protein was found to mimic the properties of FIV NC with respect to primer tRNA annealing to the viral RNA and chaperoning minus strand DNA synthesis.
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- Mila Moscardini
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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Gatlin J, Melkus MW, Padgett A, Kelly PF, Garcia JV. Engraftment of NOD/SCID mice with human CD34(+) cells transduced by concentrated oncoretroviral vector particles pseudotyped with the feline endogenous retrovirus (RD114) envelope protein. J Virol 2001; 75:9995-9. [PMID: 11559834 PMCID: PMC114573 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.20.9995-9999.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Oncoretrovirus vectors pseudotyped with the feline endogenous retrovirus (RD114) envelope protein produced by the FLYRD18 packaging cell line have previously been shown to transduce human hematopoietic progenitor cells with a greater efficiency than similar amphotropic envelope-pseudotyped vectors. In this report, we describe the production and efficient concentration of RD114-pseudotyped murine leukemia virus (MLV)-based vectors. Following a single round of centrifugation, vector supernatants were concentrated approximately 200-fold with a 50 to 70% yield. Concentrated vector stocks transduced prestimulated human CD34(+) (hCD34(+)) cells with approximately 69% efficiency (n = 7, standard deviation = 4.4%) using a single addition of vector at a low multiplicity of infection (MOI = 5). Introduction of transduced hCD34(+) cells into irradiated NOD/SCID recipients resulted in multilineage engraftment with long-term transgene expression. These data demonstrate that RD114-pseudotyped MLV-based vectors can be efficiently concentrated to high titers and that hCD34(+) cells transduced with concentrated vector stocks retain in vivo repopulating potential. These results highlight the potential of RD114-pseudotyped oncoretrovirus vectors for future clinical implementation in hematopoietic stem cell gene transfer.
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- J Gatlin
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75390-9113, USA
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Core assembly, a key step in the retroviral life cycle, is poorly understood. Previous studies have shown that the entire gag region is needed to form the assembled particles. In this report, we have shown that the assembly process is driven by recombinant capsid protein (p26) of feline immunodeficiency virus itself. Proteins are expressed in a bacterial system and soluble forms of wild-type and modified proteins are purified from bacterial extracts and are examined on gel-filtration chromatography fitted to an HPLC system. It has also been shown that changing residue Cys190 (one of the two conserved cysteines of feline immunodeficiency virus which are also conserved for all the immunodeficiency viruses including HIV) to serine by site-directed mutagenesis disrupts the assembly process. In addition, this modification causes considerable thermal instability of the protein while substitutions at nonconserved cysteines do not significantly affect the thermal stability and assembly of the protein. These findings indicate that conserved cysteine residues play a vital role in the capsid protein assembly and, therefore, are critical for virus infectivity.
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- M D Nath
- National Cancer Institute, NIH, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA.
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Yélamos B, Núñez E, Gómez-Gutiérrez J, Delgado C, Pacheco B, Peterson DL, Gavilanes F. Urea equilibrium unfolding of the major core protein of the retrovirus feline immunodeficiency virus and its tryptophan mutants. Biochim Biophys Acta 2001; 1546:87-97. [PMID: 11257511 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(00)00300-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy have been employed to study the urea unfolding mechanism of a recombinant form of the major core protein of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV-rp24) and its native tryptophan mutants. The equilibrium denaturation curves indicate the existence of two transitions. The first unfolding transition most likely reflects the denaturation of the carboxy-terminal region of FIV-rp24. Consequently, the second transition, where the changes in fluorescence are produced, should reflect the denaturation of the amino-terminal region. If the intermediate observed upon urea denaturation is an on-pathway species, the data described herein can reflect the sequential and independent loss of structure of the two domains that this type of proteins possesses.
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- B Yélamos
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Yélamos B, Núñez E, Gómez-Gutiérrez J, Datta M, Pacheco B, Peterson DL, Gavilanes F. Circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopic properties of the major core protein of feline immunodeficiency virus and its tryptophan mutants. Assignment of the individual contribution of the aromatic sidechains. Eur J Biochem 1999; 266:1081-9. [PMID: 10583405 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00952.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The gene coding for the major capsid protein of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) has been cloned into the expression vector pQE60, which allows protein purification by affinity chromatography on a nitrilotriacetic acid/Ni/agarose column. The gene was expressed in Escherichia coli and the resultant soluble protein (FIV-rp24) purified to electrophoretic homogeneity. The amino-acid composition of the recombinant protein is almost identical to that predicted from the DNA sequence. This protein has two tryptophan residues at positions 40 and 126 that have been replaced by phenylalanine by site-directed mutagenesis to obtain two single mutants and a double mutant. Circular dichroism and fluorescence spectroscopy were employed to study the structural features of FIV-rp24 protein and its tryptophan mutants. The analysis of the CD spectra indicated that alpha-helix is the major secondary structural element (48-52%) and that the overall three-dimensional structure is not modified by the mutations. The fluorescence emission spectra showed that both tryptophan residues occupy a highly hydrophobic environment. Moreover, the different tyrosine fluorescence intensities of wild-type and mutant proteins are indicative of the existence of resonance energy transfer processes to nearby tryptophan. The individual contributions of each tryptophan residue to the spectroscopic properties of the wild-type protein were obtained from the spectra of all these proteins. Thermal denaturation studies indicate that the two tryptophan residues do not contribute equally to the stabilization of the three-dimensional structure.
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- B Yélamos
- Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Elder JH, Dean GA, Hoover EA, Hoxie JA, Malim MH, Mathes L, Neil JC, North TW, Sparger E, Tompkins MB, Tompkins WA, Yamamoto J, Yuhki N, Pedersen NC, Miller RH. Lessons from the cat: feline immunodeficiency virus as a tool to develop intervention strategies against human immunodeficiency virus type 1. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1998; 14:797-801. [PMID: 9643379 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1998.14.797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- J H Elder
- Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Tomonaga K, Itagaki SI, Kashiwase H, Kawaguchi Y, Inoshima Y, Ikeda Y, Mikami T. Characterization of an integrase mutant of feline immunodeficiency virus. Arch Virol 1998; 143:1-14. [PMID: 9505962 DOI: 10.1007/s007050050263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The role of the integrase region of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) in viral replication was examined using an integrase mutant clone of FIV which carries a frameshift mutation in the region. Upon transfection, although the integrase mutant was able to release virus-like particles into the supernatant from the transfected cells, the virions produced by the mutant contained unprocessed gag precursor protein and undetectable levels of reverse transcriptase activity. Furthermore, the mutant virions were unable to direct the synthesis of viral DNA after infection in target cells. To understand this phenotype of the integrase mutant in more detail, we constructed a gag-pol expression plasmid from an FIV molecular clone and assayed roles of the integrase region on virus particle formation following transfection. When an inframe deletion was introduced into the protease region of the expression plasmid, the mutant was able to efficiently release gag- and gag-pol precursor proteins into the supernatant from the transfected cells. An expression plasmid with mutations in both the protease and integrase regions, however, failed to release the gag-pol precursor protein from the cells. These results suggested an essential role for the integrase region for efficient incorporation of the gag-pol precursor into the virions.
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- K Tomonaga
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Japan
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Prasad GS, Stura EA, McRee DE, Laco GS, Hasselkus-Light C, Elder JH, Stout CD. Crystal structure of dUTP pyrophosphatase from feline immunodeficiency virus. Protein Sci 1996; 5:2429-37. [PMID: 8976551 PMCID: PMC2143329 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560051205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We have determined the crystal structure of dUTP pyrophosphatase (dUTPase) from feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) at 1.9 A resolution. The structure has been solved by the multiple isomorphous replacement (MIR) method using a P6(3) crystal form. The results show that the enzyme is a trimer of 14.3 kDa subunits with marked structural similarity to E. coli dUTPase. In both enzymes the C-terminal strand of an anti-parallel beta-barrel participates in the beta-sheet of an adjacent subunit to form an interdigitated, biologically functional trimer. In the P6(3) crystal form one trimer packs on the 6(3) screw-axis and another on the threefold axis so that there are two independent monomers per asymmetric unit. A Mg2+ ion is coordinated by three asparate residues on the threefold axis of each trimer. Alignment of 17 viral, prokaryotic, and eukaryotic dUTPase sequences reveals five conserved motifs. Four of these map onto the interface between pairs of subunits, defining a putative active site region; the fifth resides in the C-terminal 16 residues, which is disordered in the crystals. Conserved motifs from all three subunits are required to create a given active site. With respect to viral protein expression, it is particularly interesting that the gene for dUTPase (DU) resides in the middle of the Pol gene, the enzyme cassette of the retroviral genome. Other enzymes encoded in the Pol polyprotein, including protease (PR), reverse transcriptase (RT), and most likely integrase (IN), are dimeric enzymes, which implies that the stoichiometry of expression of active trimeric dUTPase is distinct from the other Pol-encoded enzymes. Additionally, due to structural constraints, it is unlikely that dUTPase can attain an active form prior to cleavage from the polyprotein.
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- G S Prasad
- Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037-1093, USA
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Cammarota G, Matteucci D, Pistello M, Nicoletti E, Giannecchini S, Bendinelli M. Reduced sensitivity to strain-specific neutralization of laboratory-adapted feline immunodeficiency virus after one passage in vivo: association with amino acid substitutions in the V4 region of the surface glycoprotein. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1996; 12:173-175. [PMID: 8834468 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1996.12.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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- G Cammarota
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Pisa, Italy
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Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus associated with an immunodeficiency syndrome of the domestic cat. A short open reading frame (ORF2), of unknown function, is present in all FIV isolates. We have investigated the role of ORF2 in determining the cell tropism of two infectious molecular clones of FIV. FIV-PPR is able to productively infect feline peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) and a T lymphocyte cell line (MCH5-4), but not a feline astrocyte cell line (G355-5) or Crandell feline kidney cells (CrFK). In contrast, FIV-34TF10 is able to productively infect G355-5 and CrFK cells, but not PBLs or MCH5-4 cells. The major difference in these FIV clones is that ORF2 in FIV-PPR is capable of encoding a 79-amino-acid peptide, whereas there is a stop codon in ORF2 after 43 amino acids in FIV-34TF10. We performed site-directed mutagenesis to change the stop codon (TGA) in FIV-34TF10 to a tryptophan (TGG), the amino acid present at this location in FIV-PPR. FIV-34TF10 with ORF2 repaired (FIV-ORF2rep) productively infected PBLs, MCH5-4 cells, and primary macrophages, as well as CrFK and G355-5 cells, indicating that a protein encoded by ORF2 plays a role in determining the host cell tropism of FIV. ORF2 contains hydrophobic, acidic, and leucine-rich domains similar to those shown to be important for transactivating proteins of other lentiviruses. Coexpression of a plasmid expressing the ORF2 gene product with another construct expressing the chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) gene driven by the FIV LTR, resulted in transactivation of CAT expression in both feline and human cells.
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- A K Waters
- Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Lombardi S, Massi C, Tozzini F, Zaccaro L, Bazzichi A, Bandecchi P, La Rosa C, Bendinelli M, Garzelli C. Epitope mapping of the V3 domain of feline immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoprotein by monoclonal antibodies. J Gen Virol 1995; 76 ( Pt 8):1893-9. [PMID: 7636470 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-76-8-1893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A panel of six IgG monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) was produced by immunizing mice with a 22 amino acid synthetic peptide, designated V3.3, of the third variable region of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) envelope glycoprotein. This peptide is known to induce neutralizing antibodies in cats. In ELISA all MAbs reacted with purified SDS-disrupted FIV and in flow cytometry all MAbs stained permeated, persistently infected FL4 cells but not unfixed FL4 cells; this indicated that the MAbs recognize essentially cryptic epitopes of the gp100 V3 loop. By direct ELISA using partially overlapping synthetic peptides and by competition binding studies, the anti-V3.3 MAbs were shown to detect at least four distinct epitopes, two located in the amino-terminal half and two in the carboxy-terminal half of the sequence. When tested for neutralizing activity by the syncytium inhibition assay in Crandell feline kidney cells, all anti-V3.3 MAbs neutralized FIV at high dilution. However, at low dilution two MAbs exhibited much less neutralizing activity. These results indicate that the V3 region of FIV contains multiple epitopes involved in neutralization.
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- S Lombardi
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Pisa, Italy
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In the transmembrane envelope glycoprotein (TM) of lentiviruses, including human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), two cysteine residues, conserved in most retroviruses, are thought to form a loop containing five to seven amino acids. These elements make up a B-cell epitope recognized by nearly 100% of sera from infected patients or animals, designated the principal immunodominant domain (PID). The PID amino acid sequences are highly conserved between isolates of the same lentivirus but are unrelated, except for the two cysteines, when divergent lentiviruses are compared. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between amino acid sequence in the PID and envelope function. We introduced two kinds of mutations in the PID of FIV: mutations which impeded the formation of a loop and mutations which substituted the sequence of FIV with the corresponding sequences from other lentiviruses, HIV-1, visna virus, and equine infectious anemia virus. We analyzed antibody recognition, processing, and fusogenic properties of the modified envelopes, using two methods of Env expression: a cell-free expression system and transfection of a feline fibroblast cell line with gag-pol-deleted FIV proviruses. Most mutations in the PID of FIV severely affected envelope processing and abolished syncytium formation. Only the chimeric envelope containing the HIV-1 PID sequence was correctly processed and maintained the capacity to induce syncytium formation, although less efficiently than the wild-type envelope. We computed three-dimensional structural models of the PID, which were consistent with mutagenesis data and confirmed the similarity of FIV and HIV-1 PID structures, despite their divergence in amino acid sequence. Considering these results, we discussed the respective importance of selection exerted by functional requirements or host antibodies to explain the observed variations of the PIDs in lentiviruses.
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- G Pancino
- Génétique des Virus et Immunopharmacologie Moléculaire (ICGM-CNRS UPR0415), Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Paris, France
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de Ronde A, Stam JG, Boers P, Langedijk H, Meloen R, Hesselink W, Keldermans LC, van Vliet A, Verschoor EJ, Horzinek MC. Antibody response in cats to the envelope proteins of feline immunodeficiency virus: identification of an immunodominant neutralization domain. Virology 1994; 198:257-64. [PMID: 8259661 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1994.1028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Overlapping fragments of the envelope protein of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) have been expressed in Escherichia coli. Screening of cat sera for antibodies to these fragments revealed that the immunodominant domain of the FIV envelope is localized within the transmembrane protein (amino acids 687-741) and that both the variable region 3 (SU3, aa 385-417) and the COOH-terminus (aa 599-611) of the surface protein (SU) are highly immunogenic. Of all rabbit sera raised to the envelope protein fragments only the serum directed to SU3 was neutralizing. Both FIV-infected and SU3-immunized cats elicited neutralizing antibodies to SU3. Neutralizing antibodies in sera of infected cats could be absorbed by SU3, showing that SU3 is a major neutralization domain of FIV.
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- A de Ronde
- Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Grail A, Harbour DA, Stokes CR, Gruffydd-Jones TJ. Polymerase chain reaction and partial sequencing of a British isolate (T637) of feline immunodeficiency virus. Vet Microbiol 1993; 36:369-77. [PMID: 8273281 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(93)90103-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We have used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct sequencing of the amplified products to obtain information of the molecular nature of an FIV isolate, T637. Cats experimentally infected with T637 have progressed to clinical immunodeficiency disease. The 5' long terminal repeat (LTR), most of the genes coding for internal proteins (GAG) and surface proteins (ENV), and part of the polymerase (POL) gene have been sequenced. The LTR of T637 has 92% nucleic acid identity with the prototype strain, FIV-Petaluma and the Glasgow isolate, FIV-14, 89% with a Swiss isolate, FIVZ2, and 95% with the PPR isolate. Both GAG and POL genes of T637 share extensive homology with Petaluma and PPR. In the ENV gene, T637 has 91% nucleic acid homology with Petaluma and 86% with PPR, and an overall amino acid homology of between 81-87%. For the surface (SU) region of the ENV gene product, T637 has 89% amino acid homology with Petaluma and FIVZ2 and 86% with PPR.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cats
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Viral/chemistry
- Gene Products, env/chemistry
- Gene Products, gag/chemistry
- Gene Products, pol/chemistry
- Genes, env
- Genes, gag
- Genes, pol
- Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/chemistry
- Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Alignment
- Viral Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Proteins/genetics
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- A Grail
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
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Pancino G, Fossati I, Chappey C, Castelot S, Hurtrel B, Moraillon A, Klatzmann D, Sonigo P. Structure and variations of feline immunodeficiency virus envelope glycoproteins. Virology 1993; 192:659-62. [PMID: 8380668 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1993.1083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We report the characterization of the env gene of a feline immunodeficiency virus isolate from France (FIV Wo). FIV Wo gag and env genes were cloned directly from cat peripheral blood mononuclear cells, using polymerase chain reaction. The env molecular clone was shown to be functional and to express antigenically relevant envelope glycoproteins in vitro. Alignment of FIV Wo sequences with available FIV sequences and application of a regionalization algorithm resulted in delineation of variable and conserved domains of FIV Env. These data were used to build a schematic folding model of FIV envelope glycoproteins. The Env molecular clone, variability map, and structural model constitute helpful tools for future studies of FIV envelope aimed at the determination of structure-function relationships or design of diagnostics or vaccine reagents.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cats
- Cloning, Molecular
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Gene Products, env/biosynthesis
- Gene Products, env/chemistry
- Gene Products, env/genetics
- Genes, env
- Genes, gag
- Genetic Variation
- Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/chemistry
- Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/genetics
- Immunodeficiency Virus, Feline/isolation & purification
- Leukocytes, Mononuclear/microbiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Molecular Weight
- Protein Structure, Secondary
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- G Pancino
- Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire (ICGM-CNRS UPR 0415), Paris, France
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Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) has morphological, physical and biochemical characteristics similar to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS in man. However, it is antigenically and genetically distinct from HIV; an antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anaemia virus has been demonstrated. FIV has been molecularly cloned and sequenced. Diagnostic tests are commercially available and attempts at preparing inactivated, subunit and molecularly engineered vaccines are being made in different laboratories. During FIV infection a transient primary illness can be recognized, with fever, neutropenia and lymphadenopathy. After a long period of clinical normalcy a secondary stage is distinguished with signs of an immunodeficiency-like syndrome. The incubation period for this stage can be as long as 5 years, during which gradual impairment of immune function develops. Many FIV-infected cats are presented for the first time showing vague signs of illness: recurrent fevers, emaciation, lack of appetite, lymphadenopathy, anaemia, leucopenia and behavioural changes. Later, the predominant clinical signs observed are chronic stomatitis/gingivitis, enteritis, upper respiratory tract infections, and infections of the skin. Neoplasias, neurological, immunological and haematological disorder are seen in a smaller proportion. The immunodeficiency-like syndrome is progressive over a period of months to years. Concomitant infection with feline leukaemia virus has been shown to accelerate the progression of disease. In vitro, phenotypic mixing between FIV and an endogenous feline oncovirus (RD114) has been demonstrated which leads to a broadening of the cell spectrum of the lentivirus. Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) has been isolated only once, and all attempts to obtain additional isolates have failed; it has been recovered from the leucocytes of cattle with persistent lymphocytosis, lymphadenopathy, lesions in the central nervous system, progressive weakness and emaciation. As with the feline representative, BIV also was found to possess a lentivirus morphology and to encode a reverse transcriptase with Mg++ preference; it replicates and induces syncytia in a variety of embryonic bovine tissues in vitro. Antigenic analyses have demonstrated a conservation of epitopes between the major core protein of BIV and HIV. The original isolate has been molecularly cloned and sequenced. Besides the three large open reading frames (ORFs) comprising the gag, pol, and env genes common to all replication-competent retroviruses, five additional small ORFs were found. Numerous point mutations and deletions were found, mostly in the env-encoding ORF. These data suggest that, within a single virus isolate, BIV displays extensive genomic variation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- H Egberink
- Institute of Virology, School of Veterinary Medicine, State University of Utrecht, Netherlands
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