Universität Würzburg, Institut für Virologie und Immunbiologie, Würzburg, Germany.
J Virol. 2013 Jul;87(13):7774-6. doi: 10.1128/JVI.00833-13. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
In contrast to orthoretroviruses, processing of foamy viral p71 Gag is limited to a single cleavage site. Nevertheless, Gag maturation is essential for infectivity, but deletion of p3 results in a modest drop in infectivity. Here, we show that Gag processing of p71 to p68 and p3 is essential for full-length cDNA synthesis, while inactivation of Gag cleavage results in cDNAs containing only the RU5 region; cDNAs encompassing the U3 region were almost undetectable.
与 orthoretroviruses 相反,泡沫病毒 p71 Gag 的加工仅限于单一的切割位点。尽管如此,Gag 的成熟对于感染性是必不可少的,但是 p3 的缺失导致感染性略有下降。在这里,我们表明,p71 到 p68 和 p3 的 Gag 加工对于全长 cDNA 合成是必不可少的,而 Gag 切割的失活导致仅包含 RU5 区域的 cDNA;包含 U3 区域的 cDNA 几乎无法检测到。