Abstract
The virion proteins encoded by the avian retroviral pol gene (reverse transcriptase and endonuclease) are formed by the proteolytic processing of a gag-pol fusion protein precursor. Recent studies have predicted that the avian sarcoma-leukosis virus pol precursor protein undergoes a previously undetected processing event resulting in the formation of common C termini for the endonuclease (pp32) and the beta subunit of reverse transcriptase (F. Alexander, J. Leis, D. A. Soltis, R. M. Crowl, W. Danho, M. S. Poonian, Y.-C. E. Pan, and A. M. Skalka, J. Virol. 61:534-542, 1987; D. Grandgenett, T. Quinn, P. J. Hippenmeyer, and S. Oroszlan, J. Biol. Chem. 260:8243-8249, 1985). This processing event removes 37 amino acids, thus defining a new pol domain. In this report, we present evidence that this C-terminal domain is translated as part of the gag-pol precursor but is not required for replication of the virus in tissue culture cells.
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