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Altered error specificity of RNase H-deficient HIV-1 reverse transcriptases during DNA-dependent DNA synthesis.


ABSTRACT: Asp(443) and Glu(478) are essential active site residues in the RNase H domain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT). We have investigated the effects of substituting Asn for Asp(443) or Gln for Glu(478) on the fidelity of DNA-dependent DNA synthesis of phylogenetically diverse HIV-1 RTs. In M13mp2 lacZ?-based forward mutation assays, HIV-1 group M (BH10) and group O RTs bearing substitutions D443N, E478Q, V75I/D443N or V75I/E478Q showed 2.0- to 6.6-fold increased accuracy in comparison with the corresponding wild-type enzymes. This was a consequence of their lower base substitution error rates. One-nucleotide deletions and insertions represented between 30 and 68% of all errors identified in the mutational spectra of RNase H-deficient HIV-1 group O RTs. In comparison with the wild-type RT, these enzymes showed higher frameshift error rates and higher dissociation rate constants (koff) for DNA/DNA template-primers. The effects on frameshift fidelity were similar to those reported for mutation E89G and suggest that in HIV-1 group O RT, RNase H inactivation could affect template/primer slippage. Our results support a role for the RNase H domain during plus-strand DNA polymerization and suggest that mutations affecting RNase H function could also contribute to retrovirus variability during the later steps of reverse transcription.

SUBMITTER: Alvarez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3632107 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Altered error specificity of RNase H-deficient HIV-1 reverse transcriptases during DNA-dependent DNA synthesis.

Álvarez Mar M   Barrioluengo Verónica V   Afonso-Lehmann Raquel N RN   Menéndez-Arias Luis L  

Nucleic acids research 20130226 8


Asp(443) and Glu(478) are essential active site residues in the RNase H domain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT). We have investigated the effects of substituting Asn for Asp(443) or Gln for Glu(478) on the fidelity of DNA-dependent DNA synthesis of phylogenetically diverse HIV-1 RTs. In M13mp2 lacZα-based forward mutation assays, HIV-1 group M (BH10) and group O RTs bearing substitutions D443N, E478Q, V75I/D443N or V75I/E478Q showed 2.0- to 6.6-fold incre  ...[more]

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