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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
Volume 87, Issue -, Pages 1321-1330Publisher
SOC GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81382-0
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- FIC NIH HHS [TW01001] Funding Source: Medline
- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM062920, GM062920] Funding Source: Medline
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The protease (PR) of Murine leukemia virus (MLV) was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified to homogeneity and characterized by using various assay methods, including HPLC-based, photometric and fluorometric activity measurements. The specificity of the bacterially expressed PR was similar to that of virion-extracted PR. Compared with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) PR, the pH optimum of the MLV enzyme was higher. The specificity of the MLV PR was further compared with that of HIV-1 PR by using various oligopeptides representing naturally occurring cleavage sites in MLV and HIV-1, as well as by using bacterially expressed proteins having part of the MLV Gag. Inhibitors designed against HIV-1 PR were also active on MLV PR, although all of the tested ones were substantially less potent on this enzyme than on HIV-1 PR. Nevertheless, amprenavir, the most potent inhibitor against MLV PR, was also able to block Gag processing in MLV-infected cells. These results indicate that, in spite of the similar function in the life cycle of virus infection, the two PRs are only distantly related in their specificity.
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