Variable Regions 1 and 2 (VR1 and VR2) in JSRV gag Are Not Responsible for the Endogenous JSRV Particle Release Defect |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Claus?HallwirthEmail author Naoyoshi?Maeda Denis?York Hung?Fan |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Virology, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa;(2) Cancer Research Institute and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA |
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Abstract: | Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV) is a betaretrovirus causing ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma, a transmissible lung tumor of sheep. A very closely related endogenous retrovirus (enJSRV) occurs as 15 to 20 copies in the genome of all sheep, and is not known to be linked to pathogenesis. We previously localized a particle release defect of the full-length endogenous-derived expression construct pCMV2enJS56A1 to the amino-terminal region of gag that incorporates the two variable regions VR1 and VR2, which harbor the main sequence differences between endogenous and exogenous JSRV in this part of gag. Here, we tested the hypothesis that either or both of these variable regions are responsible for the observed particle release defect in enJS56A1. We found that the PPPPPPPS motif of the exogenous VR1 is neither necessary nor sufficient for particle release. Furthermore, the precise substitution of VR1 and VR2 in the exogenous JSRV expression plasmid pCMV2JS 21, using their enJS56A1-derived counterparts, did not abrogate the ability of the resulting constructs to release particles. The particle release defect of enJS56A1 is therefore not determined exclusively by either VR1 or VR2. These results point to a small number of amino acids lying outside of VR1 and VR2 that may be responsible for the particle defect of enJS56A1 Gag. |
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Keywords: | enJSRV Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma particle release sheep substitution |
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