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Evidence that Vpu Modulates HIV-1 Gag-Envelope Interaction towards Envelope Incorporation and Infectivity in a Cell Type Dependent Manner
| Content Provider | Open Access Library (OALib) |
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| Author | Archana Gautam Jayanta Bhattacharya |
| Abstract | The HIV-1 Vpu is required for efficient virus particle release from the plasma membrane and intracellular CD4 degradation in infected cells. In the present study, we found that the loss of virus infectivity as a result of envelope (Env) incorporation defect caused by a Gag matrix (MA) mutation (L30E) was significantly alleviated by introducing a start codon mutation in vpu. Inactivation of Vpu partially restored the Env incorporation defect imposed by L30E substitution in MA. This effect was found to be comparable in cell types such as 293T, HeLa, NP2 and GHOST as well as in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDM). However, in HeLa cells BST-2 knockdown was found to further alleviate the effect of Vpu inactivation on infectivity of L30E mutant. Our data demonstrated that the impaired infectivity of virus particles due to Env incorporation defect caused by MA mutation was modulated by start codon mutation in Vpu. |
| ISSN | 19326203 |
| Journal | PLOS ONE |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0061388 |
| Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
| Publisher Date | 2013-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Multidisciplinary |
