Association of simian immunodeficiency virus Nef with cellular serine/threonine kinases is dispensable for the development of AIDS in rhesus macaques
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Medicine
- Vol. 3 (8) , 860-865
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0897-860
Abstract
The nef gene of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is essential for high viral load and induction of AIDS in rhesus monkeys. A mutant form of the SIVmac239 Net which contains changes in a putative SH3-binding domain (amino acids 104 and 107 have been changed from PxxP to AxxA), does not associate with cellular serine/threonine kinases, but is fully active in CD4 downregulation and associates with the cellular tyrosine kinase Src. Infection of two rhesus macaques with SIVmac239 containing the mutant AxxA-Nef caused AIDS and rapid death in both animals. No reversions were observed in the majority of nef sequences analyzed from different time points during infection and from lymphatic tissues at the time of death. Our findings indicate that the putative SH3-ligand domain in SIVmac Nef and the association with cellular serine/threonine kinases are not important for efficient replication and pathogenicity of SIVmac in rhesus macaques.Keywords
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