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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 82, Issue 23, Pages 11495-11502Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01548-08
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- National Institutes of Health [AI063987, AI076094, AI06354]
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
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The retroviral restriction factor, TRIM5 alpha, blocks infection of a spectrum of retroviruses soon after virus entry into the cell. TRIM5 alpha consists of RING, B-box 2, coiled-coil, and B30.2(SPRY) domains. The B-box 2 domain is essential for retrovirus restriction by TRIM5 alpha, but its specific function is unknown. We show here that the B-box 2 domain mediates higher-order self-association of TRIM5 alpha rh oligomers. This self-association increases the efficiency of TRIM5 alpha binding to the retroviral capsid, thus potentiating restriction of retroviral infection. The contribution of the B-box 2 domain to cooperative TRIM5 alpha association with the retroviral capsid explains the conditional nature of the restriction phenotype exhibited by some B-box 2 TRIM5 alpha mutants; the potentiation of capsid binding that results from B-box 2-mediated self-association is essential for restriction when B30.2(SPRY) domain-mediated interactions with the retroviral capsid are weak. Thus, B-box 2-dependent higher-order self-association and B30.2(SPRY)-dependent capsid binding represent complementary mechanisms whereby sufficiently dense arrays of capsid-bound TRIM5 alpha proteins can be achieved.
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