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  • Title: Mutational analysis of a native substrate of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proteinase.
    Author: Partin K, Kräusslich HG, Ehrlich L, Wimmer E, Carter C.
    Journal: J Virol; 1990 Aug; 64(8):3938-47. PubMed ID: 2196384.
    Abstract:
    Proteolytic processing of the gag/pol precursor by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proteinase is essential for the production of infectious viral particles. Although the sites of virus-specific cleavages have been determined, the primary amino acid sequences surrounding these sites are heterogeneous and the determinants that direct the cleavage specificity exhibited by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proteinase remain largely undefined. We performed mutational analysis of the Tyr/Pro site, which produces the amino terminus of the viral capsid protein, and the Phe/Pro site, which produces the amino terminus of the proteinase. Mutations were made in a clone encoding a frameshift mutation that results in the expression of equimolar amounts of the substrate and proteinase in the form of a truncated gag/pol precursor. After single-amino-acid substitutions were made, their effects on proteolytic processing were examined by in vitro transcription and in vitro translation of the synthetic mRNA; translation products were then processed by exogenously added purified proteinase. Single-amino-acid substitutions yielded both substrates which were processed with wild-type efficiency and substrates on which processing was impaired. At the Tyr/Pro site in gag, processing was severely inhibited by substitutions within the P4, P2, P1, and P2' positions. The Phe/Pro site in pol, however, demonstrated far greater tolerance to amino acid substitution. These data suggest that the primary amino acid sequence around a scissile bond is more critical for cleavage of the Tyr/Pro site than the Phe/Pro site.
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