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Activities and substrate specificity of the evolutionarily conserved central domain of retroviral integrase.

Abstract：

:The retroviral integrase (IN) is a virus-encoded enzyme that is essential for insertion of viral DNA into the host chromosome. In order to map and define the properties of a minimal functional domain for this unique viral enzyme, a series of N- and C-terminal deletions of both Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) INs were constructed. The RSV IN deletion mutants were first tested for their ability to remove two nucleotides from the end of a substrate representing the terminus of viral DNA in order to assess the contribution of N and C regions towards this reaction, referred to as processing. The results suggest that C-terminal amino acids of the intact RSV protein are required to maintain specificity of the processing reaction. Though deficient for processing, the RSV deletion mutants exhibited a secondary endonucleolytic activity that was indistinguishable from that of wild-type IN, demonstrating that all retained some enzymatic activity. RSV, and a larger set of HIV-1, IN deletion mutants were then tested for their ability to perform an intramolecular, concerted cleavage-ligation reaction using an oligodeoxynucleotide substrate that mimics the intermediate viral-host DNA junction found prior to the final step of covalent closure. The composite results from such analyses define a minimal functional central region of approximately 140 amino acids for each enzyme that includes the highly conserved D,D(35)E domain. Results with HIV-1 and HIV-2 IN also indicate that the efficiency of concerted cleavage-ligation depends upon the presence of CA/GT base pairs within the viral component of the DNA substrate at the reaction site. Even the isolated central region of HIV-1 IN exhibited this sequence requirement for optimal activity. We conclude that this evolutionarily conserved central region of IN not only encodes residues that are required for the catalytic activity of the enzyme but also harbors some or all of the determinants responsible for recognition of the CA/GT dinucleotides that are present at the ends of all retroviral DNAs.

journal_name

Virology

journal_title

Virology

authors

Kulkosky J,Katz RA,Merkel G,Skalka AM

doi

10.1016/s0042-6822(95)80060-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-01-10 00:00:00

pages

448-56

issue

eissn

0042-6822

issn

1096-0341

pii

S0042-6822(95)80060-3

journal_volume

206

pub_type

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Activities and substrate specificity of the evolutionarily conserved central domain of retroviral integrase.