Specific amino acids in the N-terminus of the gp41 ectodomain contribute to the stabilization of a soluble, cleaved gp140 envelope glycoprotein from human immunodeficiency virus type 1
| Autor: | John P. Moore, Kathryn B. David, Antu K. Dey, Per Johan Klasse |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Immunogen
viruses Molecular Sequence Data Biology HIV Antibodies Gp41 Epitope Article Cell Line 03 medical and health sciences Epitopes Structure-Activity Relationship Protein structure Neutralization Tests Virology Humans Amino Acid Sequence Trimers Neutralizing antibody 030304 developmental biology Cleavage chemistry.chemical_classification 0303 health sciences 030302 biochemistry & molecular biology env Gene Products Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus diseases Antibodies Monoclonal Gene Products env Viral membrane gp41 N-terminus HIV Envelope Protein gp41 3. Good health Protein Structure Tertiary chemistry Biochemistry Ectodomain Solubility biology.protein HIV-1 Glycoprotein Sequence Alignment CD4 Immunoadhesins Env stabilization |
| Zdroj: | Virology. 360(1) |
| ISSN: | 0042-6822 |
| Popis: | The HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein is expressed on the viral membrane as a trimeric complex, formed by three gp120 surface glycoproteins non-covalently associated with three membrane-anchored gp41 subunits. The labile nature of the association between gp120 and gp41 hinders the expression of soluble, fully cleaved, trimeric gp140 proteins for structural and immunization studies. Disruption of the primary cleavage site within gp160 allows the production of stable gp140 trimers, but cleavage-defective trimers are antigenically dissimilar from their cleaved counterparts. Soluble, stabilized, proteolytically cleaved, trimeric gp41 proteins can be generated by engineering an intermolecular disulphide bond between gp120 and gp41 (SOS), combined with a single residue change, I559P, within gp41 (SOSIP). We have found that SOSIP gp140 proteins based on the subtype A HIV-1 strain KNH1144 form particularly homogenous trimers compared to a prototypic strain (JR-FL, subtype B). We now show that the determinants of this enhanced stability are located in the N-terminal region of KNH11144 gp41 and that, when substituted into heterologous Env sequences (e.g., JR-FL and Ba-L) they have a similarly beneficial effect on trimer stability. The stabilized trimers retain the epitopes for several neutralizing antibodies and related agents (CD4-IgG2, b12, 2G12, 2F5 and 4E10) and the CD4-IgG2 molecule, suggesting that the overall antigenic structure of the gp140 protein has not been adversely impaired by the trimer-stabilizing substitutions. The ability to increase the stability of gp140 trimers might be useful for neutralizing antibody-based vaccine strategies based on the use of this type of immunogen. |
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