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The entry of ecotropic and amphotropic murine leukemia retroviruses (MuLV) into cells was investigated by using viral vector particles carrying chimeric amphotropic-ecotropic envelope glycoproteins on their surface. Chimeras were made by joining, at or near the polyproline hinge, the N-terminal portion of the amphotropic (4070A) gp70 onto the C-terminal portion of the ecotropic (Moloney) gp70 and p15E (constructs AE2 and AE4) or vice versa (AE12). Transduction efficiency of the constructs was tested on target cells that either have only ecotropic receptors (CHO-2 and CHO-11 cells), only amphotropic receptors (mink lung fibroblasts and Cos 1 cells), or both types of receptors (NIH 3T3 cells). The assay made use of the fact that the mechanism for viral entry of ecotropic viruses is pH dependent while that of amphotropic viruses is pH independent. Treatment of target cells with NH4Cl, which prevents the reduction of pH within endosomes, reduced the titers of viral particles bearing the C-terminal moiety from the ecotropic envelope but did not reduce the titers of particles which had a C-terminal moiety from the amphotropic envelope. In addition, in contrast to other low-pH-dependent enveloped viruses, brief acid treatment did not allow surface-bound viruses to bypass the NH4Cl block. The results indicate that the pH dependence of viral entry is a property of the sequences C terminal to the polyproline hinge.

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Sequences determining the pH dependence of viral entry are distinct from the host range-determining region of the murine ecotropic and amphotropic retrovirus envelope proteins