Khan Mahfuz, Garcia-Barrio Minerva, Powell Michael D
Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30310, USA.
J Virol. 2003 Apr;77(7):4431-4. doi: 10.1128/jvi.77.7.4431-4434.2003.
We have previously shown that virions with nef deleted can be restored to wild-type infectivity by treatment to induce natural endogenous reverse transcription (NERT). Since Nef and cyclophilin A (CyPA) appear to act in similar ways on postentry events, we determined whether NERT treatment would restore infectivity to virions depleted of CyPA. Our results show that the infectivity of virions depleted of CyPA by treatment with cyclosporine A could be restored by NERT treatment, while mutants in the CyPA binding loop of capsid could only be partially restored. These results suggest that CyPA is involved in some aspect of the uncoating process.
我们之前已经表明,通过诱导自然内源性逆转录(NERT)的处理,缺失nef的病毒粒子可以恢复到野生型感染性。由于Nef和亲环素A(CyPA)似乎在进入后事件中以相似的方式起作用,我们确定NERT处理是否会恢复缺失CyPA的病毒粒子的感染性。我们的结果表明,用环孢素A处理使CyPA缺失的病毒粒子的感染性可以通过NERT处理恢复,而衣壳的CyPA结合环中的突变体只能部分恢复。这些结果表明,CyPA参与了解衣过程的某些方面。