Dedera D, Hu W, Vander Heyden N, Ratner L
Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
J Virol. 1989 Jul;63(7):3205-8. doi: 10.1128/JVI.63.7.3205-3208.1989.
Viral protein R (VPR) is conserved in human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2). To assess its function, we have constructed mutations within the vpr coding regions of HIV-1 and HIV-2 predicted to express truncated VPR products. Infectious virus was produced by each proviral clone and showed similar replication kinetics and cytopathogenicity when compared with the corresponding parental proviral clone.
病毒蛋白R(VPR)在1型和2型人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV-1和HIV-2)中是保守的。为了评估其功能,我们在HIV-1和HIV-2的vpr编码区域内构建了预测会表达截短VPR产物的突变。每个原病毒克隆都产生了有感染性的病毒,与相应的亲本原病毒克隆相比,其复制动力学和细胞致病性相似。