Jacobsen H, Ahlborn-Laake L, Gugel R, Mous J
Department PRTB, F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel, Switzerland.
J Virol. 1992 Aug;66(8):5087-91. doi: 10.1128/JVI.66.8.5087-5091.1992.
We have evaluated a possible role for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease during early steps of replication. For these studies, a specific inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus protease, Ro31-8959, was used. Synthesis of viral cDNA, its integration into cellular DNA, and its transcription were determined during a one-step, acute infection of MT-4 cells. No consistent difference in any of these parameters was noted between control-infected cultures and those treated with protease inhibitor. However, no infectious progeny virus was produced in treated cultures, and thus spread of infection was severely restricted. Our results do not support an essential activity of viral protease in early steps of replication but are in line with its established role in gag and gag-pol processing and in maturation to infectious progeny virus.
我们评估了1型人类免疫缺陷病毒蛋白酶在复制早期阶段可能发挥的作用。在这些研究中,使用了一种人类免疫缺陷病毒蛋白酶的特异性抑制剂Ro31-8959。在MT-4细胞的一步急性感染过程中,测定了病毒cDNA的合成、其整合到细胞DNA中的情况及其转录。在对照感染的培养物和用蛋白酶抑制剂处理的培养物之间,未观察到这些参数中的任何一致差异。然而,在用抑制剂处理的培养物中未产生有感染性的子代病毒,因此感染的传播受到严重限制。我们的结果不支持病毒蛋白酶在复制早期阶段具有必需活性,但与其在gag和gag-pol加工以及成熟为有感染性子代病毒方面已确立的作用一致。