Shimano R, Inubushi R, Adachi A
Department of Virology, The University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan.
Int J Mol Med. 1999 Jan;3(1):91-4. doi: 10.3892/ijmm.3.1.91.
We have previously shown that some gag gene mutants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) display a replication-defect in a cell-dependent manner. We and others have also demonstrated that the requirement of vif and vpu genes for HIV-1 replication is cell-dependent. To determine whether the cell-dependent growth of the HIV-1 gag mutants is related to the functions of Vif and Vpu, double mutants of gag-vif and gag-vpu were constructed, and monitored for their replication in various cell lines. The results obtained showed that the mutations in gag do not affect the cell-dependent functions of Vif and Vpu.
我们之前已经表明,人类免疫缺陷病毒1型(HIV-1)的一些gag基因突变体以细胞依赖的方式表现出复制缺陷。我们和其他人还证明,HIV-1复制对vif和vpu基因的需求是细胞依赖的。为了确定HIV-1 gag基因突变体的细胞依赖生长是否与Vif和Vpu的功能相关,构建了gag-vif和gag-vpu双突变体,并监测它们在各种细胞系中的复制情况。所得结果表明,gag基因的突变不会影响Vif和Vpu的细胞依赖性功能。