发布: 2013年07月20日第3卷第14期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.830 浏览次数: 10452
评审: Fanglian He
Abstract
Viral replication culminates with the egress of the mature virion from the host cell. This step of the viral life cycle has recently garnered increased attention with the discovery of the cellular restriction factor, Tetherin, which tethers budded virions to the surface of infected cells and inhibits viral spread. The importance of this block in viral infections has been suggested by the discovery of viral antagonists, such as HIV-1 Vpu, which counteract Tetherin. This protocol describes a system to study HIV-1 budding under BSL-2 safety conditions. It takes advantage of the ability of many viral matrix/capsid proteins to generate non-infectious virus-like particles (VLPs) with the expression of a single viral protein (i.e. HIV-1 p24 Gag). This protocol was recently used to characterize the effect of Tetherin isoforms on VLP release in the presence of HIV-1 Vpu (Cocka and Bates, 2012). Simultaneous expression of Tetherin and other viral antagonists can be used to study Tetherin-mediated restriction on viral budding.
Keywords: HIV-1 (HIV-1)Materials and Reagents
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© 2013 The Authors; exclusive licensee Bio-protocol LLC.
如何引用
Vande Burgt, N. H., Cocka, L. J. and Bates, P. (2013). HIV-1 Virus-like Particle Budding Assay. Bio-protocol 3(14): e830. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.830.
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微生物学 > 微生物生物化学 > 蛋白质
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