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Avidan O, Bochner R, Hizi A. The catalytic properties of the recombinant reverse transcriptase of bovine immunodeficiency virus. Virology 2006; 351:42-57. [PMID: 16631225 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2006] [Revised: 02/16/2006] [Accepted: 03/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) is a lentivirus with no proven pathogenesis in infected cattle. Yet, in experimentally infected rabbits, it causes an AIDS-like disease. Consequently, we expressed two recombinant isoforms of BIV reverse transcriptase (RT), which differ in their C-termini, and studied their catalytic properties. Both isoforms prefer Mg(+2) over Mn(+2) with most DNA polymerase and ribonuclease-H substrates. The processivity of DNA synthesis by the BIV RTs is higher than that of HIV-1 RT, whereas the fidelity of synthesis is even lower than that of the HIV-1 enzyme. The ribonuclease-H cleavage pattern suggests that the spatial distance between the polymerase and ribonuclease-H active sites of the two BIV RT isoforms equals 20 nt, unlike the 17 nt distance observed in almost all other RTs. The longer BIV RT version is somewhat less active than the shorter version, suggesting that the extra 74 residues (with homology to dUTPases) might obstruct efficient catalysis.
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- Orna Avidan
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
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Post K, Guo J, Howard KJ, Powell MD, Miller JT, Hizi A, Le Grice SFJ, Levin JG. Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 reverse transcriptase activity in model systems that mimic steps in reverse transcription. J Virol 2003; 77:7623-34. [PMID: 12805462 PMCID: PMC164806 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.13.7623-7634.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 2 (HIV-2) infection is a serious problem in West Africa and Asia. However, there have been relatively few studies of HIV-2 reverse transcriptase (RT), a potential target for antiviral therapy. Detailed knowledge of HIV-2 RT activities is critical for development of specific high-throughput screening assays of potential inhibitors. Here, we have conducted a systematic evaluation of HIV-2 RT function, using assays that model specific steps in reverse transcription. Parallel studies were performed with HIV-1 RT. In general, under standard assay conditions, the polymerase and RNase H activities of the two enzymes were comparable. However, when the RT concentration was significantly reduced, HIV-2 RT was less active than the HIV-1 enzyme. HIV-2 RT was also impaired in its ability to catalyze secondary RNase H cleavage in assays that mimic tRNA primer removal during plus-strand transfer and degradation of genomic RNA fragments during minus-strand DNA synthesis. In addition, initiation of plus-strand DNA synthesis was much less efficient with HIV-2 RT than with HIV-1 RT. This may reflect architectural differences in the primer grip regions in the p66 (HIV-1) and p68 (HIV-2) palm subdomains of the two enzymes. The implications of our findings for antiviral therapy are discussed.
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- Klara Post
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Sevilya Z, Loya S, Adir N, Hizi A. The ribonuclease H activity of the reverse transcriptases of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and type 2 is modulated by residue 294 of the small subunit. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:1481-7. [PMID: 12595556 PMCID: PMC149828 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Reverse transcriptases (RTs) exhibit DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities. The RTs of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and type 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are composed of two subunits, both sharing the same N-terminus (which encompasses the DNA polymerase domain). The smaller subunit lacks the C-terminal segment of the larger one, which contains the RNase H domain. The DNA polymerase domain of RTs resembles a right hand linked to the RNase H domain by a connection subdomain. Despite the high homology between HIV-1 and HIV-2 RTs, the RNase H activity of the latter is substantially lower than that of HIV-1 RT. The thumb subdomain of the small subunit controls the level of RNase H activity. We show here that Gln294, located in this thumb, is responsible for this difference in activity. A HIV-2 RT mutant, where Gln294 in the small subunit was replaced by a proline (present in HIV-1 RT), has an activity almost 10-fold higher than that of the wild-type RT. A comparative in vitro study of the kinetic parameters of the RNase H activity suggests that residue 294 affects the K(m) rather than the kcat value, influencing the affinity for the RNA.DNA substrate.
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- Z Sevilya
- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Restle T, Müller B, Goody RS. RNase H activity of HIV reverse transcriptases is confined exclusively to the dimeric forms. FEBS Lett 2002; 300:97-100. [PMID: 1372272 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80172-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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A method for the rapid preparation of a defined substrate to monitor RNase H activity has been developed. Using this substrate, we have investigated the RNase H activities of the different forms of recombinant HIV-1 and HIV-2 reverse transcriptase (RT) in detail. As we report here, RNase H activity is associated only with the dimeric forms (p51/p66 or p66/p66) of the enzymes.
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- T Restle
- Abteilung Biophysik, Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Germany
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Sevilya Z, Loya S, Hughes SH, Hizi A. The ribonuclease H activity of the reverse transcriptases of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and type 2 is affected by the thumb subdomain of the small protein subunits. J Mol Biol 2001; 311:957-71. [PMID: 11531332 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Retroviral reverse transcriptases (RTs) have both DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities. The RTs of HIV-1 and HIV-2 are heterodimers of p66/p51 and p68/p54 subunits, respectively. The smaller subunit lacks the C-terminal segment of the larger subunit (which is the RNase H domain). The structure of the DNA polymerase domain of HIV-1 RT resembles a right hand (with fingers, palm and thumb subdomains), linked to the RNase H domain via the connection subdomain. The RNase H activity of the Rod strain of HIV-2 RT is about tenfold lower than that of HIV-1 RT, while the DNA polymerase activity of these RTs is similar. A chimeric RT in which residues 227-427 (which constitute a small part of the palm and the entire thumb and connection subdomains) of the Rod strain of HIV-2 RT were replaced by the corresponding segment from HIV-1 RT, has an RNase H activity as high as HIV-1 RT (despite the fact that the RNase H domain is derived from HIV-2 RT). We analyzed the RNase H activity of wild-type HIV-2 RT from the D-194 strain and compared it with this activity of the RT from the Rod strain of HIV-2 and HIV-1 RT. The level of this activity of both HIV-2 RT strains was low; suggesting that low RNase H activity is a general property of HIV-2 isolates. The in vitro RNase H digestion pattern of the three wild-type RTs was indistinguishable, despite the difference in the level of RNase H activity. We constructed new chimeric HIV-1/HIV-2 RTs, in which protein segments and/or subunits were exchanged. The DNA polymerase activity of the parental HIV-1 and HIV-2 RTs was similar; as expected, the specific activity of the polymerases of all the hybrid RTs were also similar. However, the RNase H specific activity of the chimeric RTs was either high (like HIV-1 RT) or low (like HIV-2 RT). The origin of the thumb subdomain in the small subunit of the chimeric RTs (residues 244-322) determines the level of the RNase H activity. The strand-transfer activity of the chimeric RTs is also affected by the thumb subdomain of the small subunit; transfer was much more efficient if this subdomain was derived from HIV-1 RT. The data can be explained from the three-dimensional structure of HIV-1 RT. The thumb of the smaller subunit contacts the RNase H domain; it is through these contacts that the thumb affects the level of the RNase H activity of RT.
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- Z Sevilya
- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Klutch M, Woerner AM, Marcus-Sekura CJ, Levin JG. Generation of HIV-1/HIV-2 cross-reactive peptide antisera by small sequence changes in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and integrase immunizing peptides. J Biomed Sci 2000; 5:192-202. [PMID: 9678490 DOI: 10.1007/bf02253469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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We have generated peptide antisera against selected regions in HIV-1 and HIV-2 reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase (IN) to investigate the specificity of determinants governing the immune response. Peptides representing homologous regions (>50%) in the N- and C-termini and central portions of these proteins were synthesized and injected into rabbits. HIV-1 and HIV-2 IN peptide antisera inhibited IN-mediated cleavage of an HIV-1 DNA oligonucleotide substrate in a 3' processing assay, while anti-RT or normal sera had no effect. None of the RT sera inhibited RT activity. In Western blots, HIV-2 antisera directed against RT or IN peptides recognized HIV-2 RT and IN proteins, respectively, as expected, but also cross-reacted with the corresponding HIV-1 proteins. By contrast, corresponding HIV-1 antisera were type-specific. In some cases, HIV-1 cross-reactive antisera could be generated by immunization with HIV-1 chimeric peptides with as few as two residues in the HIV-1 sequence changed to the corresponding HIV-2 amino acids. The finding that a type-specific response can be converted to a cross-reactive response suggests alternate strategies for developing new diagnostic reagents which detect HIV-1 and HIV-2. In addition, our results provide a general model for generating HIV peptide vaccines with dual specificity against HIV-1 and HIV-2.
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- M Klutch
- Division of Viral Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Oude Essink BB, Berkhout B. The fidelity of reverse transcription differs in reactions primed with RNA versus DNA primers. J Biomed Sci 1999; 6:121-32. [PMID: 10087443 DOI: 10.1007/bf02256443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Reverse transcriptase enzymes (RT) convert single-stranded retroviral RNA genomes into double-stranded DNA. The RT enzyme can use both RNA and DNA primers, the former being used exclusively during initiation of minus- and plus-strand synthesis. Initiation of minus-strand DNA synthesis occurs by extension of a tRNA primer that is associated with the viral genome, and plus-strand DNA synthesis is initiated from an RNase H- resistant polypurine tract of the genomic RNA that remains bound to the newly synthesized minus-strand DNA. All other phases of reverse transcription represent elongation of a DNA primer. We demonstrate that the polymerase fidelity of RT enzymes is significantly higher in tRNA-primed reverse transcription compared with DNA-primed reactions. Two mechanistic explanations can be proposed. First, the type of template-primer (T- P) duplex (RNA-RNA versus RNA-DNA) may affect the RT enzyme conformation such that the discrimination against incorrect nucleotides is affected. Second, the tRNA primer may act as a fidelity co-factor through specific association with the RT enzyme. According to the latter hypothesis, the increased fidelity observed for an RNA-RNA T-P should persist at a distance from the initiation site, where the enzyme-bound nucleic acid duplex will consist of RNA-cDNA. However, we measured that the effect of tRNA on the fidelity is detectable only at a short distance from the initiation site. These results indicate that the type of T-P duplex influences the fidelity of reverse transcription, suggesting that two small segments of the viral genome downstream of the initiation sites for minus- and plus-strand DNA synthesis are copied with a fidelity that is greater than average.
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- B B Oude Essink
- Department of Human Retrovirology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Yang G, Song Q, Charles M, Drosopoulos WC, Arnold E, Prasad VR. Use of chimeric human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 reverse transcriptases for structure-function analysis and for mapping susceptibility to nonnucleoside inhibitors. JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES AND HUMAN RETROVIROLOGY : OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL RETROVIROLOGY ASSOCIATION 1996; 11:326-33. [PMID: 8601218 DOI: 10.1097/00042560-199604010-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and type 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2) reverse transcriptases (RTs) are evolutionary related. To study the effect of homologous sequence replacements on polymerase function and to map the determinants of the lack of susceptibility of HIV-2 RT to nonnucleoside drugs, a series of chimeric HIV-1/HIV-2 RTs were constructed. Analysis of the chimeric RTs showed that wild-type levels of RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity were retained when both finger and palm subdomains were exchanged as a unit between the two parental RTs. Analysis of enzymatically active chimeras for inhibition by the thiobenzimidazolone derivative TIBO R82150 showed that a segment of HIV-2 RT at 212-250, when placed in the HIV-1 RT context, conferred a 40-fold decrease in susceptibility to TIBO R82150. Site-directed mutagenesis of this segment found Tyr227 to be a key residue in this segment for the natural resistance of HIV-2 RT to TIBO R82150.
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- G Yang
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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Fan N, Rank KB, Poppe SM, Tarpley WG, Sharma SK. Characterization of the p68/p58 heterodimer of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 reverse transcriptase. Biochemistry 1996; 35:1911-7. [PMID: 8639674 DOI: 10.1021/bi9516440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Recently we demonstrated that the p58 subunit of p68/p58 HIV-2 reverse transcriptase (RT) heterodimer, produced by processing of p68/p68 homodimer with recombinant HIV-2 protease, terminates at Met484 [Fan, N., et al. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 13573-13579]. Here we describe purification and characterization of the p68/p58 heterodimer of recombinant HIV-2 RT. It exhibited both RT and RNase H activities, obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics, and was competitively inhibited by the DNA chain terminator ddTTP (Ki[app] = 305 +/- 20 nM). The HIV-2 RT-associated RNase H exhibited a marked preference for RNA hydrolysis from a HIV-1 gag-based heteropolymeric RNA/DNA hybrid in the presence of either Mg2+ or Mn2+, compared to the [3H]poly(rA).poly(dT) or [3H]poly(rG).poly(dC) homopolymeric substrates. Relative to HIV-1 RT, the RNase H activity of HIV-2 RT was only 5% toward the [3H]poly(rA).poly(dT) in the presence of Mg2+. The size distribution of products generated from [3H]poly(rA).poly(dT) by HIV-2 RT-associated RNase H was markedly distinct from that of HIV-1 RT in the presence of Mg2+ or Mn2+. The p68/p58 HIV-2 RT heterodimer, produced by specific cleavage using HIV-2 protease, should be useful for inhibition and biophysical studies aimed at discovering and designing drugs directed toward HIV-2.
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- N Fan
- Upjohn Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001, USA
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Divita G, Baillon JG, Rittinger K, Chermann JC, Goody RS. Interface peptides as structure-based human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase inhibitors. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:28642-6. [PMID: 7499382 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.48.28642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Reverse transcriptases from both human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and 2 are obligatory dimers. A tryptophan-rich repeat motif that is highly conserved between these proteins, as well as in the reverse transcriptase from simian immunodeficiency virus, has been postulated to be involved in hydrophobic subunit interactions. A synthetic 19-mer peptide covering part of this tryptophan repeat motif was recently shown to inhibit human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 reverse transcriptase subunit dimerization (Divita, G., Restle, T., Goody, R. S., Chermann, J.-C., and Baillon, J. G. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 13080-13083). In the present study, we show that the same peptide can also inhibit human immunodeficiency virus type 2 reverse transcriptase subunit dimerization, suggesting that the same inhibitors might be used as agents against both viruses as well as against variants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 that differ from the variant against which they were developed. Under appropriate experimental conditions, e.g. at acidic pH, this peptide is also able to induce the dissociation of the enzyme from human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
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- G Divita
- Max-Planck-Institut für Medizinische Forschung, Abteilung Biophysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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The Differential Processing of Homodimers of Reverse Transcriptases from Human Immunodeficiency Viruses Type 1 and 2 Is a Consequence of the Distinct Specificities of the Viral Proteases. J Biol Chem 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)92316-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Devico AL, Rahman R, Sarngadharan MG, Veronese FD. Mechanism of enzyme inhibition mediated by anti-reverse transcriptase antibodies from HIV type 1-infected individuals. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1994; 10:953-60. [PMID: 7529034 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1994.10.953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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We have examined the mechanisms of reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibition mediated by anti-RT antibodies, isolated by affinity chromatography, from four HIV-1-positive individuals. In kinetics assays, anti-RT immunoglobulin (Ig) obtained from three of the sera mediated a noncompetitive type of inhibition against template primer; two of these three also mediated noncompetitive inhibition with respect to deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate. Such inhibition did not require that the Ig be preincubated with RT prior to the addition of reaction components. In contrast, a more complicated pattern of inhibition was exhibited by anti-RT Ig from the fourth serum. Preincubation of this Ig with enzyme markedly enhanced the inhibition. The results demonstrate that the specificities of RT-inhibiting antibodies vary among HIV-1-infected individuals, but that one prevalent mechanism of inhibition involves interactions with epitopes outside of the enzyme active site.
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- A L Devico
- Department of Cell Biology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Kensington, Maryland 20895
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Tözsér J, Friedman D, Weber IT, Bláha I, Oroszlan S. Studies on the substrate specificity of the proteinase of equine infectious anemia virus using oligopeptide substrates. Biochemistry 1993; 32:3347-53. [PMID: 8384879 DOI: 10.1021/bi00064a018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The proteinase of the equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), a lentivirus closely related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was purified from concentrated virus. The specificity of the enzyme was characterized using oligopeptides representing naturally occurring cleavage sites in the Gag and Gag-Pol polyproteins. The length of the substrate binding pocket was found to be 1-2 residues longer than that of HIV proteinases. Although the EIAV and HIV proteinases cleaved most of the peptides at the same bond, some were hydrolyzed by only the EIAV enzyme. Oligopeptides representing cleavage sites in the nucleocapsid protein were also found to be substrates of the EIAV proteinase. However, these peptides were not hydrolyzed by the HIV proteinases. While peptides representing the corresponding sequences in the first cysteine arrays of the nucleocapsid proteins of HIV-1 and HIV-2 were substrates of the proteinases, peptides representing the homologous sequences in the second Cys arrays were resistant against the proteolytic attack. A three-dimensional model of the EIAV proteinase built on the basis of homology with HIV-1 proteinase was used to interpret the differences. In addition to the oligopeptides representing cleavage sites in the Gag and Gag-Pol polyproteins, the EIAV proteinase was also able to cleave an oligopeptide mimicking a cleavage site in the transmembrane protein. Our results suggest that the specificity of lentiviral proteinases share common characteristics, although substantial differences may exist in hydrolysis of some peptides.
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- J Tözsér
- Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Maryland 21702-1201
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DeVico AL, Issel CJ, Le Grice SF, Payne SL, Montelaro RC, Sarngadharan MG. High prevalence of serum antibodies to equine infectious anemia virus reverse transcriptase. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1993; 9:7-11. [PMID: 7678974 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1993.9.7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The immunogenicity of the equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) reverse transcriptase (RT) was examined by immunoblot assay with recombinant EIAV RT. All of the 19 sera from EIAV-infected horses tested contained antibodies that recognized EIAV RT and directly inhibited the polymerase activity of the enzyme. An examination of sera obtained sequentially from two experimentally infected animals revealed that anti-RT antibodies arise early in infection and increase in level. The appearance of the antibodies correlated with progression toward the asymptomatic period of infection.
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- A L DeVico
- Department of Cell Biology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Kensington, MD 20895
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Restle T, Pawlita M, Sczakiel G, Müller B, Goody R. Structure-function relationships of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase determined using monoclonal antibodies. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)42091-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Tan GT, Miller JF, Kinghorn AD, Hughes SH, Pezzuto JM. HIV-1 and HIV-2 reverse transcriptases: a comparative study of sensitivity to inhibition by selected natural products. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1992; 185:370-8. [PMID: 1376118 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(05)80995-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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One hundred and fifty six pure natural products, which had previously been tested against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, were evaluated for HIV-2 reverse transcriptase inhibitory activity. Compounds that lacked effect in the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase system were found also to be inactive against HIV-2 reverse transcriptase. However, compounds belonging to the benzophenanthridine and protoberberine classes of alkaloids, certain flavonoids, the iridoid, fulvoplumierin, and the ansamycin antibiotic, daunomycin, exhibited similar potencies in both enzyme systems. In contrast, HIV-2 reverse transcriptase was observed to be four-fold more sensitive toward the inhibitory effects of the ipecac alkaloids, O-methylpsychotrine sulfate heptahydrate and psychotrine dihydrogen oxalate. Such differences in susceptibilities to inhibitors may indicate subtle dissimilarities in enzyme structure and function.
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- G T Tan
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago
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Grob PM, Wu JC, Cohen KA, Ingraham RH, Shih CK, Hargrave KD, McTague TL, Merluzzi VJ. Nonnucleoside inhibitors of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase: nevirapine as a prototype drug. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1992; 8:145-52. [PMID: 1371691 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1992.8.145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nevirapine, a dipyridodiazepinone, is a highly specific inhibitor of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) which exhibits an IC50 = 84nM in enzyme assays and IC50 = 40nM against HIV-1 replication in cell culture. This nonnucleoside inhibitor acts noncompetitively with respect to nucleoside triphosphates, template and primer suggesting that nevirapine does not bind to the active site of RT. Studies employing an azido analogue of nevirapine as a photoaffinity probe indicated that one molecule of inhibitor is sufficient to inactivate one molecule of heterodimeric enzyme and demonstrated that only the p66 subunit of p66/p51 heterodimeric RT is covalently labeled by this probe. When subjected to trypic mapping, Tyr 181 and Tyr 188 were labeled with probe and consequently these aromatic residues are apparently near or actually within the RT binding site for nevirapine. The extent to which Tyr 181 and Tyr 188 participate/contribute to nevirapine binding was determined by making amino acid substitutions at these positions using the corresponding residues from HIV-2 RT which is not sensitive to nevirapine. A change at either position dramatically decreased the enzymes' sensitivity to nevirapine, as well as to TIBO derivative and Merck L-693,593, indicating that both Tyr 181 and 188 are crucial for inhibitor-enzyme interaction. Cell culture selection in the continued presence of nevirapine results in the appearance of resistant HIV-1, Tyr 181 to Cys, raising the concern that combination drug therapy will be required in the clinic.
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- P M Grob
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Ridgefield, CT 06877
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DeVico AL, Sarngadharan MG. Reverse transcriptase--a general discussion. JOURNAL OF ENZYME INHIBITION 1992; 6:9-34. [PMID: 1285305 DOI: 10.3109/14756369209041353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- A L DeVico
- Department of Cell Biology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., Kensington, Maryland 20895
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DeVico A, Montelaro RC, Gallo RC, Sarngadharan MG. Purification and partial characterization of equine infectious anemia virus reverse transcriptase. Virology 1991; 185:387-94. [PMID: 1718086 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90786-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Previously we raised a rabbit monospecific antibody (C2003) against a synthetic peptide derived from a sequence within the C-terminal portion of the reverse transcriptase (RT) of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). This sequence is found to be conserved in the predicted amino acid sequence of a related lentivirus, the equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV). It was previously determined that the C2003 antibody could cross-react with native EIAV RT and directly inhibit the DNA polymerase activity of the enzyme. We have now fractionated EIAV RT by immunoaffinity chromatography with immobilized C2003 antibody. The procedure yielded an equimolar mixture of two proteins of 66 and 51 kDa associated with both DNA polymerase and RNase H activities. When the EIAV RT proteins were examined by in situ activity gel assays, polymerase activity was found to be principally associated with the 66-kDa component. The fidelity of DNA synthesis by EIAV RT was found to be equivalent to that of HIV-1 RT and lower than that of AMV RT. These observations indicate that the RTs of EIAV and HIV-1 share similar structural and functional properties.
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- A DeVico
- Department of Cell Biology, Advanced BioScience Laboratories, Inc., Kensington, Maryland 20895
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Shaharabany M, Hizi A. The DNA-dependent and RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activities of the reverse transcriptases of human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1991; 7:883-8. [PMID: 1722105 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1991.7.883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We have constructed a series of plasmids which, when introduced into Escherichia coli, induce the overexpression of soluble wild-type and mutated forms of the reverse transcriptases (RTs) from human immunodeficiency viruses types 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively). These proteins were analyzed previously for their RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (RDDP) and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities. In the present study we assayed the different mutant RTs for their DNA-dependent DNA polymerase (DDDP) activity, employing an in situ polyacrylamide gel activity assay. The results indicate that both the RDDP and DDDP catalytic functions of HIV-1 RT mutants are affected similarly by mutations suggesting a high degree of overlap between the catalytic domains involved in both activities. Contrariwise, many of the HIV-2 RT mutants display no correlation between these two DNA polymerase activities, that is, the DDDP activity was not affected by the mutations introduced in the native enzyme in contrast to the RDDP activity. We were thus able to generate mutants of HIV-2 RT that unlike the wild-type RT, are capable of transcribing only DNA and not RNA. The disparity in mutational-catalytic relations between the two HIV-related RTs may reflect a possible difference in the structure and folding properties of the two proteins.
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- M Shaharabany
- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Müller B, Restle T, Kühnel H, Goody R. Expression of the heterodimeric form of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 reverse transcriptase in Escherichia coli and characterization of the enzyme. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)98744-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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DeVico AL, Copeland TD, Oroszlan S, Gallo RC, Sarngadharan MG. Interaction of C-terminal sequences of human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase with template primer. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)89567-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Hizi A, Tal R, Shaharabany M, Loya S. Catalytic properties of the reverse transcriptases of human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and type 2. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)38108-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Ferns RB, Partridge JC, Tisdale M, Hunt N, Tedder RS. Monoclonal antibodies define linear and conformational epitopes of HIV-1 pol gene products. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1991; 7:307-13. [PMID: 1712217 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1991.7.307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Purified recombinant reverse transcriptase (RT) from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was used to raise 21 monoclonal antibodies with anti-RT specificities. The antibodies were characterized using Western blotting against native virus and recognized either the p66 or p66, p51 components of RT. Further immunoblotting using either cyanogen bromide fragmented RT or truncated mutants of RT along with cross-competition studies enabled the location of various immunogenic regions of RT to be identified. Three antibodies recognized a linear epitope in the N-terminal region (amino acids 128-176). Also, a neutralizing RT antibody recognized a conformational epitope in this region. Three monoclonals had epitopes mapped to linear sequences in the RNase H region at the C-terminus of the RT. Another neutralizing antibody, also requiring folding of the RT protein had its epitope more centrally located (231-353). Of the remaining 13 monoclonals, 7 were roughly located in the C-terminal region and required folding of the protein for epitope recognition and only three of the remaining six could be mapped to conformational epitopes in N-terminal and central regions of the RT. None of the antibodies tested recognized HIV-2 RT products p68 and p55 in Western blot.
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- R B Ferns
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, London, England
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Affiliation(s)
- E Arnold
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
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Hizi A, Tal R, Hughes SH. Mutational analysis of the DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H activities of human immunodeficiency virus type 2 reverse transcriptase expressed in Escherichia coli. Virology 1991; 180:339-46. [PMID: 1701948 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90038-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have constructed a plasmid that, when introduced into Escherichia coli, induces the synthesis of large quantities of a polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of 68 kDa. The HIV-2 reverse transcriptase (RT) made in E. coli is soluble in bacterial extracts and possesses both RNA-dependent DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities typical of retroviral RTs. The HIV-2 RT expression clone was used to generate mutations in HIV-2 RT. There is a strong correlation between the effects of individual mutations on the DNA polymerase and RNase H activities. Mutations that profoundly affect the two catalytic functions are not clustered in any particular region of the polypeptide. Those few mutations that selectively affect either the RNase H or the DNA polymerase suggest that, like other retroviral RTs, the DNA polymerase is associated with the amino-terminal portion of HIV-2 RT and the RNase H with the carboxy-terminal portion. Genetically, the HIV-2 RT resembles the HIV-1 RT more closely than it resembles Moloney murine leukemia virus RT. The two catalytic functions of Moloney murine leukemia virus RT can be separately expressed in active form by molecular cloning; those of HIV-1 and HIV-2 RT cannot.
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- A Hizi
- Department of Cell Biology and Histology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Lüke W, Hoefer K, Moosmayer D, Nickel P, Hunsmann G, Jentsch KD. Partial purification and characterization of the reverse transcriptase of the simian immunodeficiency virus TYO-7 isolated from an African green monkey. Biochemistry 1990; 29:1764-9. [PMID: 1691922 DOI: 10.1021/bi00459a015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The reverse transcriptase (RT) was partially purified by a newly developed procedure from the simian immunodeficiency virus TYO-7 isolated from an African green monkey (SIVagmTYO-7). The method comprised lysis of the virus with nonionic detergent followed by two centrifugations in isopycnic sucrose density gradients and one velocity sedimentation in a glycerol gradient. The enzyme exhibited a purity of 70-80% and showed an exceptional high specific activity of 135 nmol incorporation of dTMP per milligram of protein in 1 h with poly(rA).oligo(dT) as template-primer (TP). The molecular weight of the native enzyme was estimated by velocity sedimentation analysis as 120K-130K. Investigation of the RT by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) showed that the active enzyme is a heterodimer composed of a 64- and a 50-kDa subunit. The two subunits were identified to be RT specific by Western blot analysis. In activity gels, both subunits exhibited enzymatic activity, whereby the 64-kDa subunit showed the predominant activity. The RT preferred the TP poly(rA).oligo(dT) over poly(rC).oligo(dG). With poly(rCm).oligo(dG), only marginal activity was detected, and no activity was measured with poly(dA).oligo(dT). The TP specificity was influenced by the reaction temperature. The highest activity was measured around the melting temperature of the TP used. Furthermore, the enzyme activity was more thermolabile when measured with poly(rA).oligo(dT) than with poly(rC).oligo(dG). To compare the specificity of RT inhibitors, their inhibition efficiency (IE) was defined as the ratio of the 50% inhibiting concentration (ID50) obtained with the RT in viral lysates to the ID50 of purified RT.
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- W Lüke
- German Primate Centre, Göttingen
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