Zhuang Jianling, Mukherjee Sayandip, Ron Yacov, Dougherty Joseph P
Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology, UMDNJ/Robert W. Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA.
J Virol. 2006 Jul;80(13):6706-11. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00273-06.
A significant difference in the recombination rates between human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and the gammaretroviruses was previously reported, with the former being 10 to 100 times more recombinogenic. It is possible that preferential copackaging of homodimers in the case of gammaretroviruses, like murine leukemia virus (MLV), led to the underestimation of their rates of recombination. To reexamine the recombination rates for MLV, experiments were performed to control for nonrandom copackaging of viral RNA, and it was found that MLV and HIV-1 exhibit similar crossover rates. The implications for control of proviral ploidy and preferential recombination during minus-strand DNA synthesis are discussed.
先前有报道称,1型人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV-1)与γ逆转录病毒之间的重组率存在显著差异,前者的重组活性要高10至100倍。对于γ逆转录病毒,如鼠白血病病毒(MLV),同型二聚体的优先共包装可能导致其重组率被低估。为了重新检测MLV的重组率,进行了相关实验以控制病毒RNA的非随机共包装,结果发现MLV和HIV-1表现出相似的交叉率。本文还讨论了负链DNA合成过程中前病毒倍性控制和优先重组的意义。