Almog N, Roller R, Arad G, Passi-Even L, Wainberg M A, Kotler M
Department of Molecular Genetics, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
J Virol. 1996 Oct;70(10):7228-32. doi: 10.1128/JVI.70.10.7228-7232.1996.
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease (PR) and p6(Pol) are translated as part of the Gag-Pol polyprotein after a ribosomal frameshift. PR is essential to virus replication and is responsible for cleaving Gag and Gag-Pol precursors, but the role of p6(Pol) in HIV-1 infection is poorly understood. Here, we report that (i) PR is present in mature HIV-1 virions primarily as a p6(Pol)-PR fusion protein; (ii) HIV-1 PR cleaves viral precursor proteins expressed in bacterial cells at the Phe-Leu bond (positions 1639 to 1642) located at the junction of the NC and p6(Pol) proteins, releasing the p6(Pol)-PR fusion protein; and (iii) purified p6(Pol)-PR fusion protein undergoes autocleavage in vitro at at least three sites.
1型人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV-1)蛋白酶(PR)和p6(Pol)在核糖体移码后作为Gag-Pol多聚蛋白的一部分被翻译。PR对病毒复制至关重要,负责切割Gag和Gag-Pol前体,但p6(Pol)在HIV-1感染中的作用尚不清楚。在此,我们报告:(i)PR主要以p6(Pol)-PR融合蛋白的形式存在于成熟HIV-1病毒颗粒中;(ii)HIV-1 PR在位于NC和p6(Pol)蛋白交界处的苯丙氨酸-亮氨酸键(第1639至1642位)处切割细菌细胞中表达的病毒前体蛋白,释放p6(Pol)-PR融合蛋白;(iii)纯化的p6(Pol)-PR融合蛋白在体外至少在三个位点进行自切割。