Vincent K A, York-Higgins D, Quiroga M, Brown P O
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1990 Oct 25;18(20):6045-7. doi: 10.1093/nar/18.20.6045.
A conserved property of retroviral proviruses is the presence of a direct repeat in the host DNA immediately flanking the viral sequence; each virus generates a repeat with a characteristic length. By sequencing the viral/host DNA junctions from five HIV-1 proviral clones, we have confirmed that integration of HIV results in the generation of a five basepair direct repeat. A target sequence in uninfected host DNA was analyzed to establish that the five basepair sequence flanking the provirus was present only once prior to integration. Of the five proviruses examined, two were found to have integrated in known repetitive sequence elements of the human genome; one in a Line-1 element and a second in satellite DNA.
逆转录病毒前病毒的一个保守特性是,在紧邻病毒序列的宿主DNA中存在一个直接重复序列;每种病毒都会产生一个具有特征长度的重复序列。通过对五个HIV-1前病毒克隆的病毒/宿主DNA连接处进行测序,我们证实HIV的整合会导致产生一个五碱基对的直接重复序列。对未感染宿主DNA中的一个靶序列进行分析后确定,前病毒两侧的五碱基对序列在整合之前只出现过一次。在所检测的五个前病毒中,发现有两个整合到了人类基因组已知的重复序列元件中;一个整合到了LINE-1元件中,另一个整合到了卫星DNA中。