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Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 7941-7949, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Deoxyribonucleoside Triphosphate Pool Imbalances In Vivo Are Associated with an Increased Retroviral Mutation Rate

John G. Juliasdagger and Vinay K. Pathak*

Department of Biochemistry and Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506

Received 17 April 1998/Accepted 16 June 1998

Deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) pool imbalances are associated with an increase in the rate of misincorporation and hypermutation during in vitro reverse transcription reactions. However, the effects of in vivo dNTP pool imbalances on the accuracy of reverse transcription are unknown. We sought to determine the effects of in vivo dNTP pool imbalances on retroviral mutation rates and to test our hypothesis that 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) increases the retroviral mutation rates through induction of dNTP pool imbalances. D17 cells were treated with thymidine, hydroxyurea (HU), or AZT, and the effects on in vivo dNTP pools were measured. Thymidine and HU treatments induced significant dNTP pool imbalances. In contrast, AZT treatment had very little effect on the dNTP pools. The effects of in vivo dNTP pool imbalances induced by thymidine and HU treatments on the retroviral mutation rates were also determined. Spleen necrosis virus (SNV)-based and murine leukemia virus (MLV)-based retroviral vectors that expressed the lacZ mutant reporter gene were used. The frequencies of inactivating mutations introduced in the lacZ gene in a single replication cycle provided a measure of the retroviral mutation rates. Treatment of D17 target cells with 500 µM thymidine increased the SNV and MLV mutant frequencies 4.7- and 4-fold, respectively. Treatment of D17 target cells with 2 mM HU increased the SNV and MLV mutant frequencies 2.1- and 2.7-fold, respectively. These results demonstrate that dNTP pool imbalances are associated with an increase in the in vivo retroviral mutation rates, but AZT treatment results in an increase in the retroviral mutation rates by a mechanism not involving alterations in dNTP pools.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506. Phone: (304) 293-0495. Fax: (304) 293-4667. E-mail: VPATHAK{at}WVUMBRCC1.hsc.wvu.edu.

dagger Present address: NCI-FCRDC/ABL, Frederick, MD 21702.

Journal of Virology, October 1998, p. 7941-7949, Vol. 72, No. 10
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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