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Comparative Study
. 1985 Mar;82(6):1618-22.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.6.1618.

Murine leukemia virus protease is encoded by the gag-pol gene and is synthesized through suppression of an amber termination codon

Y Yoshinaka, I Katoh, T D Copeland, S Oroszlan
Comparative Study

Murine leukemia virus protease is encoded by the gag-pol gene and is synthesized through suppression of an amber termination codon

Y Yoshinaka et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1985 Mar.

Abstract

We have purified from Moloney murine leukemia virus (Mo-MuLV) a protease that has the capacity of accurately cleaving the polyprotein precursor Pr65gag into the mature viral structural proteins. Both the NH2- and COOH-terminal amino acid sequences have been determined and aligned with the amino acid sequence deduced from the DNA sequence of Mo-MuLV by other workers. The results show that: (i) the protease is located at the 5' end of the pol gene, and the first four amino acids are overlapped with the 3' end of the gag gene; (ii) the fifth amino acid residue is glutamine, which is inserted by suppression of the UAG termination codon at the gag-pol junction; and (iii) the protease is composed of 125 amino acids with calculated Mr = 13,315, and the COOH terminus of the protease is adjacent to the NH2 terminus of reverse transcriptase. The map order of the gag-pol gene is proposed to be 5'-p15-p12-p30-p10-protease-reverse transcriptase-endonuclease-3'.

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