Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein reduces reverse transcriptase pausing at a secondary structure near the murine leukemia virus polypurine tract

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Wu, WX
Henderson, LE
Copeland, TD
Gorelick, RJ
Bosche, WJ
Rein, A
Levin, JG
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[1] NICHHD,GENET MOL LAB,NIH,BETHESDA,MD 20892
[2] NCI,FREDERICK CANC RES & DEV CTR,SPECIAL PROGRAM PROT CHEM,FREDERICK,MD 21702
[3] NCI,FREDERICK CANC RES & DEV CTR,RETROVIRAL GENET SECT,ABL BASIC RES PROGRAM,FREDERICK,MD 21702
[4] NCI,FREDERICK CANC RES & DEV CTR,AIDS VACCINE PROGRAM,SAIC FREDERICK,FREDERICK,MD 21702
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10.1128/JVI.70.10.7132-7142.1996
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
In an earlier study on minus-strand DNA synthesis catalyzed by murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase, we described a prominent pause site near the polypurine tract (J. Guo, W. Wu, Z. Y. Yuan, K. Post, R. J. Crouch, and J. G. Levin, Biochemistry 34:5018-5029, 1995). We now report that pausing at this site is due to a stem-loop structure in the RNA template, formed by interaction of a number of bases in the polypurine tract, including the six G's, and a 3' sequence which includes four C's, Addition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) nucleocapsid (NC) protein to reverse transcriptase reactions reduces pausing by similar to 8- to 10-fold and stimulates synthesis of full-length DNA. Thus, NC functions as an accessory protein during elongation of minus-strand DNA and increases the efficiency of DNA synthesis, in this case, by apparently destabilizing a region of secondary structure in the template. Since NC is associated with genomic RNA in the viral core and is likely to be part df a viral replication complex, these results suggest that NC may also promote efficient DNA synthesis during virus replication, Mutational analysis indicates that the features of HIV-1 NC which are important for reduction of pausing include the basic amino acids flanking the first zinc finger, the zinc fingers, and the cysteine and aromatic amino acids within the fingers. These findings suggest that reverse transcription might he targeted by drugs which inactivate the zinc fingers of HIV-1 NC.
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