Evidence map›Paper›PMID 12829840›Full record

ArticleJournal of virology2003

Hydrogen bonding at a conserved threonine in lentivirus capsid is required for virus replication.

Sarah M Rue, Jason W Roos, L Mario Amzel, Janice E Clements, Sheila A Barber

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Article in Journal of virology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah M RueDepartment of Comparative Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Jason W Roos
L Mario Amzel
Janice E Clements
Sheila A Barber
Johns Hopkins University · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

Funding

REGULATING GENE EXPRESSION OF NEUROTROPIC LENTIVIRUSESR01NS023039 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CLEMENTS, JANICE ELLEN · 1986 to 2004
$1.6M
SIV NEF GENE AND CELLULAR ACTIVATION AND INFECTIONR01NS035751 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CLEMENTS, JANICE ELLEN · 1996 to 2002
$1.2M
MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF AIDS RELATED CNS DISEASET32NS007392 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CLEMENTS, JANICE ELLEN · 1995 to 2005
$895k
NINDS NIH HHS NS 07392NINDS NIH HHS NS 23039NINDS NIH HHS NS 35751NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS023039NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007392
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The N terminus of the capsid protein (CA) undergoes a considerable conformational change when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease cleaves it free from the Pr55(Gag) polyprotein. This rearrangement is thought to facilitate the establishment of specific CA-CA interactions that are required for the formation of the mature viral core. Substitution of amino acids that are critical for this refolding of the N terminus is generally detrimental to virus replication and mature virion core morphology. Here, we identify a conserved threonine in simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) CA, T(47)(CA), that is requisite for viral replication. Replacement of T(47)(CA) in the infectious viral clone SIVmac239 with amino acids with different hydrogen-bonding capabilities and analysis of the effects of these substitutions at key steps in the viral life cycle demonstrate that hydrogen bonding at this position is important for virus infectivity and virion release. In the HIV-based homology model of the mature SIV CA N terminus presented in this study, T(47)(CA) forms several hydrogen bonds with a proximal aspartate, D(50)(CA). This model, coupled with strong phenotypic similarities between viral substitution mutants of each of these two residues in all of the virological assays described herein, indicates that hydrogen bonding between T(47)(CA) and D(50)(CA) is likely required for viral replication. As hydrogen bonding between these two residues is present in HIV CA as well, this interaction presents a potential target for antiviral drug design.

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Virus ReplicationAmino Acid SequenceAmino Acid SubstitutionAnimalsCapsid ProteinsCell LineHIV-1HumansHydrogen BondingMicroscopy, ElectronModels, MolecularSequence AlignmentSimian Immunodeficiency VirusThreonineViral ProteinsVirionCapsid ProteinsThreonineViral Proteins

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PMID12829840
PMCPMC161920
OpenAlexW1983553980

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