The expression of hybrid HIV:Ty virus-like particles in yeast
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 329 (6134), 68-70
- https://doi.org/10.1038/329068a0
Abstract
The yeast retrotransposon, Ty, encodes a set of proteins that are assembled into virus-like particles, Ty-VLPs (refs 1, 2). These proteins include Ty-VLP structural proteins, a protease that mediates cleavage of primary translation products and a reverse transcriptase. The major structural components of Ty-VLPs are proteolytic products of the primary translation product, p1 (ref. 3). We have recently shown that protein p1 alone can form Ty-VLPs (ref. 3). Here we demonstrate that p1 fusion proteins, comprising most of p1 and part of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protein gp120, form hybrid HIV:Ty-VLPs. These hybrid particles provide a rapid means of preparing and evaluating HIV antigens for a variety of immunological purposesKeywords
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