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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America1998

CCR5 coreceptor utilization involves a highly conserved arginine residue of HIV type 1 gp120.

W K Wang, T Dudek, Y J Zhao, H G Brumblay, M Essex, T H Lee

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

W K WangDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
T Dudek
Y J Zhao
H G Brumblay
M Essex
T H Lee
Harvard University · US

Funding

NCI OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATOR GRANTR35CA039805 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI ESSEX, MYRON E · 1985 to 1998
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NCI NIH HHS CA-39805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The seven-transmembrane CCR5 was recently found to double as a coreceptor for a genetically diverse family of human and nonhuman primate lentiviruses. Paradoxically, the main region of the envelope protein believed to be involved in CCR5 utilization was mapped to hypervariable region 3, or V3, of the envelope glycoprotein gp120. In this study, we addressed the question of whether functional convergence in CCR5 utilization is mediated by certain V3 residues that are highly conserved among HIV type 1 (HIV-1), HIV type 2, and simian immunodeficiency virus. Site-directed mutagenesis carried out on three such V3 residues revealed that the Arg-298 of HIV-1 gp120 has an important role in CCR5 utilization. In contrast, no effect was observed for the other residues we tested. The inability of Arg-298 mutants to use CCR5 was not attributed to global alteration of gp120 conformation. Neither the expression, processing, and incorporation of mutant envelope proteins into virions, nor CD4 binding were significantly affected by the mutations. This interpretation is further supported by the finding that alanine substitutions of five residues immediately adjacent to the arginine residue had no effect on CCR5 utilization. Taken together, our data strongly suggests that the highly conserved Arg-298 residue identified in the V3 of HIV-1 has a significant role in CCR5 utilization, and may represent an unusually conserved target for future anti-viral designs.

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HIV-1Amino Acid SequenceArginineCloning, MolecularHIV Envelope Protein gp120HumansMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, Site-DirectedPeptide FragmentsReceptors, CCR5Structure-Activity RelationshipArginineHIV Envelope Protein gp120HIV envelope protein gp120 (305-321)Peptide FragmentsReceptors, CCR5

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PMID9576954
PMCPMC20449
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