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[摘要]：Wild-type HIV-1 group O RT (reverse transcriptase) shows increased thermostability in comparison with HIV-1 group M subtype B RT and MLV (murine leukaemia virus) RT. However, its utility in the amplification of RNA targets is limited by the reduced accuracy of lentiviral RTs compared with oncoretroviral RTs (i.e. MLV RT). The effects of the mutations K65R, R78A and K65R/V751 on the fidelity of HIV-1 group O RTs were studied using gel-based and M 1 3mp2 lacZ forward-mutation fidelity assays. Forward-mutation assays demonstrated that mutant RTs K65R, R78A and K65R/V751 showed >9-fold increased accuracy in comparison with the wild-type enzyme and were approximately two times more faithful than the MLV RT. Compared with MLV RT, all of the tested HIV-1 group O RT variants showed decreased frameshift fidelity. However, K65R RT showed a higher tendency to introduce one-nucleotide deletions in comparison with other HIV-1 group O RT variants. R78A had a destabilizing effect on the RT, either in the presence or absence of V751. At temperatures above 52 C, K65R and K65R/V751 retained similar levels of DNA polymerase activity to the wild-type HIV-1 group O RT, but were more efficient than HIV-1 group M subtype B and MLV RTs. K65R, K65R/V751 and R78A RTs showed decreased misinsertion and mispair extension fidelity in comparison with the wild-type enzyme for most base pairs studied. These assays revealed that nucleotide selection is mainly governed by k(pol) (pol is polymerization) in the case of K65R, whereas both k(pol) and K-d affect nucleotide discrimination in the case of K65R/V751. |
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