Proteolytic activity in vivo and encapsidation of recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proteinase expressed in baculovirus-infected cells

Royer Monique, Gay B., Tournier J., Boulanger P.. 1997. Proteolytic activity in vivo and encapsidation of recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proteinase expressed in baculovirus-infected cells. Journal of General Virology, 78 (1) : 131-142.

Résumé : The activity #in vivo# of HIV-1 proteinase (PR) was analysed in the baculovirus expression system, using eight different constructs of the #prt# gene under the control of polyhedrin (PH) promoters of various strengths. None of the active PRS was expressed in substantial quantities, and only PH-fused and/or non-functional PR mutants accumulated in high amounts in insect cells. However, enough PR activity was generated from a lengthened PR construct in insect cells to process Gag polyprotein substrate co-expressed in the same cells in trans. Fusion of the first 58 residues from the PH sequence to the PR N terminus did not significantly change its activity and specificity of cleavage of the Gag substrate. When analysed under mild denaturing conditions, PH-fused or unfused fulllength PR point mutants, as well as PH-fused or unfused C-terminal deletion mutants, showed a propensity to multimerize, with a predominant occurrence of dimers. The incorporation of PR into Gag particles was studied using eight Gag-PR fusion, constructs, all containing a non-functional PR mutant. The PR domain was fused to the C-terminal p6 domain of Gag (p6Gag), or translated in frame with NCp7 (as in frameshifted Gag-Pol polyprotein) and followed by downstream sequences of increasing lengths from the Pol domain or the bacterial Bêta-galactosidase. The results suggested that the presence of the p6Gag domain was detrimental to the encapsidation of polyprotein-embedded PR.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : maladie de l'homme, maladie immunologique, virus, Baculoviridae, activité enzymatique, protéolyse, protéine microbienne, Retroviridae, Virus de l'immunodéficience humaine

Mots-clés complémentaires : Encapsidation

Classification Agris : L73 - Maladies des animaux
U30 - Méthodes de recherche

Auteurs et affiliations

• Royer Monique, CIRAD-GERDAT-BIOTROP/IGEPAM (FRA)
• Gay B.
• Tournier J.
• Boulanger P.

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