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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 16, Issue 12, Pages 5502-5513Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E05-06-0496
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM054787, R01 GM027367, GM27367, GM54787, R29 GM054787] Funding Source: Medline
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A method has been developed to follow fusion of individual pseudotyped virus expressing HIV-1 Env to cells by time-resolved fluorescence microscopy. Viral envelopes were labeled with a fluorescent lipid dye (DiD) and virus content was rendered visible by incorporating a Gag-GFP chimera. The Gag-GFP is naturally cleaved to the much smaller NC-GFP fragment in the mature virions. NC-GFP was readily released upon permeabilization of the viral envelope, whereas the capsid was retained. The NC-GFP thus provides a relatively small and mobile aqueous marker to follow viral content transfer. In fusion experiments, virions were bound to cells at low temperature, and fusion was synchronously triggered by a temperature jump. DiD transferred from virions to cells without a significant lag after the temperature jump. Some virions released DiD but retained NC-GFP. Surprisingly, the fraction of lipid mixing events yielding NC-GFP transfer was dependent on the type of target cell: of three infectable cell lines, only one permitted NC-GFP transfer within minutes of raising temperature. NC-GFP release did not correlate with the level of CD4 or coreceptor expression in the target cells. The data indicate that fusion pores formed by HIV-1 Env can remain small for a relatively long time before they enlarge.
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