Construction and In Vitro Characterization of Attenuated Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Long Terminal Repeat Mutant Viruses
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- 15 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 75 (2) , 1054-1060
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.75.2.1054-1060.2001
Abstract
AP-1- and ATF-binding sites are cis -acting transcriptional elements within the U3 domain of the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) long terminal repeat (LTR) that serve as targets for cellular activation pathways and may regulate virus replication. We report that FIV LTR mutant proviruses encoding U3 deletions of the ATF-binding sequence exhibited restricted virus expression and replication in both feline lymphocytes and macrophages. In contrast, deletion of the AP-1 site had negligible effects on virus expression and replication. FIV LTR mutant proviruses encoding deletions of both the AP-1 and ATF sites or a 72-bp deletion encompassing the AP-1 site, duplicated C/EBP sites, and ATF sites were severely restricted for virus expression. These results demonstrate that deletion of either the ATF-binding site or multiple cis -acting transcriptional elements attenuates FIV. These attenuated FIV mutants provide opportunities to characterize the role of cis -acting elements in virus replication in vivo and to test LTR mutants as attenuated virus vaccines.Keywords
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