Enhanced enzyme kinetics of reverse transcriptase variants cloned from animals infected with SIVmac239 lacking viral protein X.
J Biol Chem
; 295(50): 16975-16986, 2020 12 11.
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ABSTRACT
HIV Type 1 (HIV-1) and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) display differential replication kinetics in macrophages. This is because high expression levels of the active host deoxynucleotide triphosphohydrolase sterile α motif domain and histidine-aspartate domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) deplete intracellular dNTPs, which restrict HIV-1 reverse transcription, and result in a restrictive infection in this myeloid cell type. Some SIVs overcome SAMHD1 restriction using viral protein X (Vpx), a viral accessory protein that induces proteasomal degradation of SAMHD1, increasing cellular dNTP concentrations and enabling efficient proviral DNA synthesis. We previously reported that SAMHD1-noncounteracting lentiviruses may have evolved to harbor RT proteins that efficiently polymerize DNA, even at low dNTP concentrations, to circumvent SAMHD1 restriction. Here we investigated whether RTs from SIVmac239 virus lacking a Vpx protein evolve during in vivo infection to more efficiently synthesize DNA at the low dNTP concentrations found in macrophages. Sequence analysis of RTs cloned from Vpx (+) and Vpx (-) SIVmac239-infected animals revealed that Vpx (-) RTs contained more extensive mutations than Vpx (+) RTs. Although the amino acid substitutions were dispersed indiscriminately across the protein, steady-state and pre-steady-state analysis demonstrated that selected SIVmac239 Vpx (-) RTs are characterized by higher catalytic efficiency and incorporation efficiency values than RTs cloned from SIVmac239 Vpx (+) infections. Overall, this study supports the possibility that the loss of Vpx may generate in vivo SIVmac239 RT variants that can counteract the limited availability of dNTP substrate in macrophages.
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Assunto principal:
Síndrome de Imunodeficiência Adquirida dos Símios
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DNA Polimerase Dirigida por RNA
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Vírus da Imunodeficiência Símia
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Proteínas Virais Reguladoras e Acessórias
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Proteína 1 com Domínio SAM e Domínio HD
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Mutação
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Nucleotídeos
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Animals
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En
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J Biol Chem
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos