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Different effects of a single amino acid substitution on three adjacent epitopes in the gp41 C-terminal tail of a neutralizing antibody escape mutant of human immunodeficiency virus type 1

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UNSPECIFIED (2001) Different effects of a single amino acid substitution on three adjacent epitopes in the gp41 C-terminal tail of a neutralizing antibody escape mutant of human immunodeficiency virus type 1. ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY, 146 (1). pp. 157-166. ISSN 0304-8608.

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Abstract

The envelope protein of human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) comprises the outer gp 120 SU domain and the anchoring gp41 TM domain, and the conventional view is that it has a single transmembrane region with the following C-terminal sequence situated entirely within the virion. However, we have recently proposed that the gp41 C-terminal region comprises three transmembrane regions and an external loop structure. Part of this loop is the peptide (731) PRGPDRPEGIEEEGGERDRDRS(752) that carries three antibody epitopes, (734)PDRPEG(739), (IEEE743)-I-740, and (ERDRD750)-E-746. PDRPEG is not detected topes, in virions but reacts with its cognate MAb (C8) in Western blots, IEEE is a linear and non-neutralizing epitope, and ERDRD is a conformational and neutralizing epitope. Here we show that escape mutants selected with neutralizing ERDRD specific antibody had a single 732R--> G substitution, 14 residues upstream of the cognate epitope, and no longer bound the selecting antibody. The same amino acid substitution altered epitope PDRPEG in the virion so that it now reacted with MAb C8, but left epitope IEEE unaffected. Introduction of 732R-->G by site-specific mutagenesis into the gp41 of cloned HIV-1 NL4-3 virions allowed them to escape neutralization by ERDRD-specific IgG, and confirms that 732R makes a major contribution to the neutralizing conformation of the 731-752 region of the C-terminal tail of gp41.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology
Journal or Publication Title: ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY
Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG WIEN
ISSN: 0304-8608
Official Date: 2001
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2001UNSPECIFIED
Volume: 146
Number: 1
Number of Pages: 10
Page Range: pp. 157-166
Publication Status: Published

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