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Basic Characteristics of Mutations
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Mutation Site
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Q47A |
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Mutation Site Sentence
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The positions of the residues of interest, M17A, Q47A, M47A, and Y61A, were highlighted on each monomer for both RSV- and HIV-based configurations. |
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Mutation Level
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Amino acid level |
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Mutation Type
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Nonsynonymous substitution |
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Gene/Protein/Region
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gag |
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Standardized Encoding Gene
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gag
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Genotype/Subtype
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Viral Reference
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-
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Functional Impact and Mechanisms
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Disease
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Cell line
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Immune
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Target Gene
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-
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Clinical and Epidemiological Correlations
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Clinical Information
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Treatment
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Location
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- |
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Literature Information
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PMID
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29695435
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Title
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Critical Role of the Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Capsid N-Terminal Domain for Gag-Gag Interactions and Virus Particle Assembly
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Author
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Martin JL,Mendonca LM,Marusinec R,Zuczek J,Angert I,Blower RJ,Mueller JD,Perilla JR,Zhang W,Mansky LM
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Journal
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Journal of virology
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Journal Info
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2018 Jun 29;92(14):e00333-18
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Abstract
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The retroviral Gag protein is the main structural protein responsible for virus particle assembly and release. Like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag, human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has a structurally conserved capsid (CA) domain, including a beta-hairpin turn and a centralized coiled-coil-like structure of six alpha helices in the CA amino-terminal domain (NTD), as well as four alpha-helices in the CA carboxy-terminal domain (CTD). CA drives Gag oligomerization, which is critical for both immature Gag lattice formation and particle production. The HIV-1 CA CTD has previously been shown to be a primary determinant for CA-CA interactions, and while both the HTLV-1 CA NTD and CTD have been implicated in Gag-Gag interactions, our recent observations have implicated the HTLV-1 CA NTD as encoding key determinants that dictate particle morphology. Here, we have conducted alanine-scanning mutagenesis in the HTLV-1 CA NTD nucleotide-encoding sequences spanning the loop regions and amino acids at the beginning and ends of alpha-helices due to their structural dissimilarity from the HIV-1 CA NTD structure. We analyzed both Gag subcellular distribution and efficiency of particle production for these mutants. We discovered several important residues (i.e., M17, Q47/F48, and Y61). Modeling implicated that these residues reside at the dimer interface (i.e., M17 and Y61) or at the trimer interface (i.e., Q47/F48). Taken together, these observations highlight the critical role of the HTLV-1 CA NTD in Gag-Gag interactions and particle assembly, which is, to the best of our knowledge, in contrast to HIV-1 and other retroviruses.IMPORTANCE Retrovirus particle assembly and release from infected cells is driven by the Gag structural protein. Gag-Gag interactions, which form an oligomeric lattice structure at a particle budding site, are essential to the biogenesis of an infectious virus particle. The CA domain of Gag is generally thought to possess the key determinants for Gag-Gag interactions, and the present study has discovered several critical amino acid residues in the CA domain of HTLV-1 Gag, an important cancer-causing human retrovirus, which are distinct from that of HIV-1 as well as other retroviruses studied to date. Altogether, our results provide important new insights into a poorly understood aspect of HTLV-1 replication that significantly enhances our understanding of the molecular nature of Gag-Gag interaction determinants crucial for virus particle assembly.
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Sequence Data
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