Abstract: The mutations V570D and I573D stabilize native Env of the HIV-1 JRFL strain and occlude nonneutralizing epitopes to a greater extent than the previously identified I559P mutation that is at the interface of the NHR trimers in the 6-HB.
Differential binding of neutralizing and non-neutralizing antibodies to native-like soluble HIV-1 Env trimers, uncleaved Env proteins, and monomeric subunits.
Abstract: We also explored the antigenic consequences of three different features of SOSIP.664 gp140 trimers: the engineered inter-subunit disulfide bond, the trimer-stabilizing I559P change in gp41ECTO, and proteolytic cleavage at the gp120-gp41ECTO junction.
Method: BG505 SOSIP.664 gp140 was constructed by introducing several sequence modifications (all numbering is based on the HxB2 sequence): A501C and T605C, to create a disulfide bond between gp120 and gp41ECTO); I559P in gp41ECTO, to increase trimer stability; REKR (HXB2 PMID: 24145402
2013
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Abstract: The impact of gp120-gp41 cleavage on trimer structure, in the presence or absence of trimer-stabilizing modifications (i.e., a gp120-gp41 disulfide bond and an I559P gp41 change, together designated SOSIP), was assessed.
Specific amino acids in the N-terminus of the gp41 ectodomain contribute to the stabilization of a soluble, cleaved gp140 envelope glycoprotein from human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
Abstract: Soluble, stabilized, proteolytically cleaved, trimeric gp140 proteins can be generated by engineering an intermolecular disulfide bond between gp120 and gp41 (SOS), combined with a single residue change, I559P, within gp41 (SOSIP).
Evaluating the immunogenicity of a disulfide-stabilized, cleaved, trimeric form of the envelope glycoprotein complex of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
Abstract: In this construct, the gp120 and gp41 moieties are covalently linked by an intermolecular disulfide bond (SOS gp140), and an I559P substitution has been added to stabilize gp41-gp41 interactions (SOSIP gp140).
Evolutionary repair of HIV type 1 gp41 with a kink in the N-terminal helix leads to restoration of the six-helix bundle structure.
PMID: 15307920
2004
AIDS research and human retroviruses
Abstract: Biophysical studies show that the Ile559Pro mutation essentially disrupts the folding of a recombinant gp41 ectodomain core into a six-helix bundle structure.
Abstract: The Ile559Gly and Ile559Pro mutations adversely affect Env biosynthesis and Env incorporation into virions.
Abstract: Viruses containing the Ile559Gly and Ile559Pro substitutions replicate poorly, but an evolutionary route is described that restores replication competence.
Stabilization of the soluble, cleaved, trimeric form of the envelope glycoprotein complex of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.
Abstract: A variant SOS gp140, designated SOSIP gp140, contains an isoleucine-to-proline substitution at position 559 in the N-terminal heptad repeat region of gp41.