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Brady S, Singh G, Bolinger C, Song Z, Boeras I, Weng K, Trent B, Brown WC, Singh K, Boris-Lawrie K, Heng X. Virion-associated, host-derived DHX9/RNA helicase A enhances the processivity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase on genomic RNA. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:11473-11485. [PMID: 31175158 PMCID: PMC6663884 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.007679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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DHX9/RNA helicase A (RHA) is a host RNA helicase that participates in many critical steps of the HIV-1 life cycle. It co-assembles with the viral RNA genome into the capsid core. Virions deficient in RHA are less infectious as a result of reduced reverse transcription efficiency, demonstrating that the virion-associated RHA promotes reverse transcription before the virion gains access to the new host's RHA. Here, we quantified reverse-transcription intermediates in HIV-1-infected T cells to clarify the mechanism by which RHA enhances HIV-1 reverse transcription efficiency. Consistently, purified recombinant human RHA promoted reverse transcription efficiency under in vitro conditions that mimic the early reverse transcription steps prior to capsid core uncoating. We did not observe RHA-mediated structural remodeling of the tRNALys3-viral RNA-annealed complex. RHA did not enhance the DNA synthesis rate until incorporation of the first few nucleotides, suggesting that RHA participates primarily in the elongation phase of reverse transcription. Pre-steady-state and steady-state kinetic studies revealed that RHA has little impact on the kinetics of single-nucleotide incorporation. Primer extension assays performed in the presence of trap dsDNA disclosed that RHA enhances the processivity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). The biochemical assays used here effectively reflected and explained the low RT activity in HIV-1 virions produced from RHA-depleted cells. Moreover, RT activity in our assays indicated that RHA in HIV-1 virions is required for the efficient catalysis of (-)cDNA synthesis during viral infection before capsid uncoating. Our study identifies RHA as a processivity factor of HIV-1 RT.
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- Samantha Brady
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 432105
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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- Center for Structural Biology, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
- Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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- Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 432105
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
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Sleiman D, Goldschmidt V, Barraud P, Marquet R, Paillart JC, Tisné C. Initiation of HIV-1 reverse transcription and functional role of nucleocapsid-mediated tRNA/viral genome interactions. Virus Res 2012; 169:324-39. [PMID: 22721779 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2012.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Revised: 06/05/2012] [Accepted: 06/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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HIV-1 reverse transcription is initiated from a tRNA(Lys)(3) molecule annealed to the viral RNA at the primer binding site (PBS). The annealing of tRNA(Lys)(3) requires the opening of its three-dimensional structure and RNA rearrangements to form an efficient initiation complex recognized by the reverse transcriptase. This annealing is mediated by the nucleocapsid protein (NC). In this paper, we first review the actual knowledge about HIV-1 viral RNA and tRNA(Lys)(3) structures. Then, we summarize the studies explaining how NC chaperones the formation of the tRNA(Lys)(3)/PBS binary complex. Additional NMR data that investigated the NC interaction with tRNA(Lys)(3) D-loop are presented. Lastly, we focused on the additional interactions occurring between tRNA(Lys)(3) and the viral RNA and showed that they are dependent on HIV-1 isolates, i.e. the sequence and the structure of the viral RNA.
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- Dona Sleiman
- Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN biologiques, Université Paris-Descartes, CNRS UMR 8015, 4 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
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Friedrich BM, Dziuba N, Li G, Endsley MA, Murray JL, Ferguson MR. Host factors mediating HIV-1 replication. Virus Res 2011; 161:101-14. [PMID: 21871504 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2011.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2011] [Revised: 08/05/2011] [Accepted: 08/08/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1(HIV-1) infection is the leading cause of death worldwide in adults attributable to infectious diseases. Although the majority of infections are in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, HIV-1 is also a major health concern in most countries throughout the globe. While current antiretroviral treatments are generally effective, particularly in combination therapy, limitations exist due to drug resistance occurring among the drug classes. Traditionally, HIV-1 drugs have targeted viral proteins, which are mutable targets. As cellular genes mutate relatively infrequently, host proteins may prove to be more durable targets than viral proteins. HIV-1 replication is dependent upon cellular proteins that perform essential roles during the viral life cycle. Maraviroc is the first FDA-approved antiretroviral drug to target a cellular factor, HIV-1 coreceptor CCR5, and serves to intercept viral-host protein-protein interactions mediating entry. Recent large-scale siRNA and shRNA screens have revealed over 1000 candidate host factors that potentially support HIV-1 replication, and have implicated new pathways in the viral life cycle. These host proteins and cellular pathways may represent important targets for future therapeutic discoveries. This review discusses critical cellular factors that facilitate the successive steps in HIV-1 replication.
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- Brian M Friedrich
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas 77555-0435, United States.
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Reduced fitness in cell culture of HIV-1 with nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor-resistant mutations correlates with relative levels of reverse transcriptase content and RNase H activity in virions. J Virol 2010; 84:9377-89. [PMID: 20592075 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00618-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors (NNRTIs) are important components of multidrug therapy for HIV-1. Understanding the effect of NNRTI-resistant mutants on virus replication and reverse transcriptase (RT) function is valuable for the development of extended-spectrum NNRTIs. We measured the fitness of six NNRTI-resistant mutants, the K103N, V106A, Y181C, G190A, G190S, and P236L viruses, using a flow cytometry-based cell culture assay. K103N and Y181C viruses had fitness similar to that of the wild type while V106A, G190A, G190S, and P236L viruses had reduced fitness. We also determined the biochemical correlates of fitness by measuring the RNase H and polymerization activities of recombinant mutant RTs and virion-associated RTs. The RNase H activities of recombinant and virion-associated RTs correlated with the relative fitness for each mutant. K103N and Y181C mutants had normal RNase H activity; V106A, G190A, and G190S mutants had moderate reductions in activity; and the P236L mutant had substantially reduced activity. With the exception of the P236L mutant, reduced fitness correlates with low virion-associated polymerization efficiency and reduced RT content. Reduced polymerase function in virions derived from low RT content rather than an intrinsic polymerization defect in each RT protein. In conclusion, severe defects in RNase H activity alone, exemplified by the P236L mutant, appear sufficient to cause a substantial reduction in fitness. For the other NNRTI mutants, reductions in RT content decreased both polymerization and RNase H activity in virions. RNase H reduction was compounded by intrinsic RNase H defects in the mutant RTs.
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Olimpo JT, DeStefano JJ. Duplex structural differences and not 2'-hydroxyls explain the more stable binding of HIV-reverse transcriptase to RNA-DNA versus DNA-DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 38:4426-35. [PMID: 20338878 PMCID: PMC2910049 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase (HIV-RT) binds more stably in binary complexes with RNA–DNA versus DNA–DNA. Current results indicate that only the -2 and -4 RNA nucleotides (-1 hybridized to the 3′ recessed DNA base) are required for stable binding to RNA–DNA, and even a single RNA nucleotide conferred significantly greater stability than DNA–DNA. Replacing 2′- hydroxyls on pivotal RNA bases with 2′-O-methyls did not affect stability, indicating that interactions between hydroxyls and RT amino acids do not stabilize binding. RT’s Kd (koff/kon) for DNA–DNA and RNA–DNA were similar, although koff differed almost 40-fold, suggesting a faster kon for DNA–DNA. Avian myeloblastosis and Moloney murine leukemia virus RTs also bound more stably to RNA–DNA, but the difference was less pronounced than with HIV-RT. We propose that the H- versus B-form structures of RNA–DNA and DNA–DNA, respectively, allow the former to conform more easily to HIV-RT’s binding cleft, leading to more stable binding. Biologically, the ability of RT to form a more stable complex on RNA–DNA may aid in degradation of RNA fragments that remain after DNA synthesis.
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- Jeffrey T Olimpo
- Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Henriet S, Sinck L, Bec G, Gorelick RJ, Marquet R, Paillart JC. Vif is a RNA chaperone that could temporally regulate RNA dimerization and the early steps of HIV-1 reverse transcription. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:5141-53. [PMID: 17660191 PMCID: PMC1976464 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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HIV-1 Vif (viral infectivity factor) is associated with the assembly complexes and packaged at low level into the viral particles, and is essential for viral replication in non-permissive cells. Viral particles produced in the absence of Vif exhibit structural defects and are defective in the early steps of reverse transcription. Here, we show that Vif is able to anneal primer tRNALys3 to the viral RNA, to decrease pausing of reverse transcriptase during (–) strand strong-stop DNA synthesis, and to promote the first strand transfer. Vif also stimulates formation of loose HIV-1 genomic RNA dimers. These results indicate that Vif is a bona fide RNA chaperone. We next studied the effects of Vif in the presence of HIV-1 NCp, which is a well-established RNA chaperone. Vif inhibits NCp-mediated formation of tight RNA dimers and hybridization of tRNALys3, while it has little effects on NCp-mediated strand transfer and it collaborates with nucleocapsid (NC) to increase RT processivity. Thus, Vif might negatively regulate NC-assisted maturation of the RNA dimer and early steps of reverse transcription in the assembly complexes, but these inhibitory effects would be relieved after viral budding, thanks to the limited packaging of Vif in the virions.
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- S. Henriet
- Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS, IBMC, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg cedex, France and AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS, IBMC, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg cedex, France and AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS, IBMC, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg cedex, France and AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS, IBMC, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg cedex, France and AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS, IBMC, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg cedex, France and AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD, USA
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- Architecture et Réactivité de l’ARN, Université Louis Pasteur, CNRS, IBMC, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084, Strasbourg cedex, France and AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC-Frederick Inc., NCI-Frederick, P.O. Box B, Frederick, MD, USA
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed.+33 0 3 88 41 70 35+33 0 3 88 60 22 18 Correspondence may also be addressed to Roland Marquet.+33 0 3 88 41 70 54+33 0 3 88 60 22 18
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Dobard CW, Briones MS, Chow SA. Molecular mechanisms by which human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase stimulates the early steps of reverse transcription. J Virol 2007; 81:10037-46. [PMID: 17626089 PMCID: PMC2045400 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00519-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Reverse transcriptase (RT) and integrase (IN) are two essential enzymes that play a critical role in synthesis and integration of the retroviral cDNA, respectively. For human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), RT and IN physically interact and certain mutations and deletions of IN result in viruses defective in early steps of reverse transcription. However, the mechanism by which IN affects reverse transcription is not understood. We used a cell-free reverse transcription assay with different primers and compositions of deoxynucleoside triphosphates to differentially monitor the effect of IN on the initiation and elongation modes of reverse transcription. During the initiation mode, addition of IN stimulated RT-catalyzed reverse transcription by fourfold. The stimulation was specific to IN and could not be detected when the full-length IN was replaced with truncated IN derivatives. The IN-stimulated initiation was also restricted to the template-primer complex formed using tRNA(3)(Lys) or short RNA oligonucleotides as the primer and not those formed using DNA oligonucleotides as the primer. Addition of IN also produced a threefold stimulation during the elongation mode, which was not primer dependent. The stimulation of both initiation and elongation by IN was retained in the presence of an RT trap. Furthermore, IN had no effect on steps at or before template-primer annealing, including packaging of viral genomic RNA and tRNA(3)(Lys). Taken together, our results showed that IN acts at early steps of reverse transcription by increasing the processivity of RT and suppressing the formation of the pause products.
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- Charles W Dobard
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Winshell J, Paulson BA, Buelow BD, Champoux JJ. Requirements for DNA unpairing during displacement synthesis by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:52924-33. [PMID: 15465813 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m409134200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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DNA displacement synthesis by reverse transcriptase during retroviral replication is required for the production of the linear precursor to integration. The sensitivity of unpaired thymines to KMnO(4) oxidation was used to probe for the extent of DNA melting by human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase in front of the primer terminus in model oligonucleotide-based displacement constructs. Unpairing of the two base pairs downstream of the primer (+1 and +2 positions) requires the presence of the next correct dNTP, indicating that DNA melting only occurs after the formation of the ternary complex with the enzyme tightly clamped around the DNA. The amount or extent of DNA melting is not significantly affected by the length of the already-displaced strand or the base composition of the DNA beyond the +2 position. The F61W mutant form of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, which is partially impaired for displacement synthesis, exhibits a reduction in the amount of melting at the +1 and +2 positions. These results demonstrate the importance of the observed melting to displacement synthesis and suggest that the unpairing reaction is mediated by an intimate association between the fingers region of the enzyme and the DNA in the closed clamp conformation of the protein.
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- Jamie Winshell
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7242, USA
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Miller JT, Khvorova A, Scaringe SA, Le Grice SFJ. Synthetic tRNALys,3 as the replication primer for the HIV-1HXB2 and HIV-1Mal genomes. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:4687-95. [PMID: 15342789 PMCID: PMC516074 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In order to determine the contribution of modified bases on the efficiency with which tRNA(Lys,3) is used in vitro as the HIV-1 replication primer, the properties of synthetic derivatives prepared by three independent methods were compared to the natural, i.e. fully modified, tRNA. When prepared directly by in vitro run-off transcription, we show here that the predominant tRNA species is 77 nt, representing a non-templated addition of a single nucleotide. As a consequence, this aberrant tRNA inefficiently primes (-) strand strong stop DNA synthesis from the primer binding site (PBS) on the HIV-1 viral RNA genome to which it must hybridize. In contrast, correctly sized tRNA(Lys,3) can be prepared by (i) total chemical synthesis and ligation of 'half' tRNAs, (ii) transcription of a cassette whose DNA template contained strategically placed 2'-O-Methyl-containing ribonucleotides and (iii) processing from a larger precursor by means of targeted cleavage with Escherichia coli RNase H. When each of these 76 nt tRNAs was supplemented into a (-) strand strong stop DNA synthesis reaction utilizing the HXB2 strain of HIV-1, the amount of product obtained was comparable to that from the fully modified counterpart. Parallel assays monitoring early events in (-) strand strong stop DNA synthesis using either the HXB2 or Mal strain of HIV-1 RNA as the template indicated little difference in the pattern or total product amount when primed with either natural or synthetic tRNA(Lys,3). In addition, nuclease mapping of PBS-bound tRNA suggests inter-molecular base pairing between bases of the tRNA anticodon domain and the U-rich U5-IR loop of the viral 5' leader region is less stable on the HIV-1(HXB2) genome than the HIV-1(Mal) isolate.
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- Jennifer T Miller
- Reverse Transcriptase Biochemistry Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Paillart JC, Skripkin E, Ehresmann B, Ehresmann C, Marquet R. In vitro evidence for a long range pseudoknot in the 5'-untranslated and matrix coding regions of HIV-1 genomic RNA. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:5995-6004. [PMID: 11744696 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m108972200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The 5'-untranslated leader region of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) RNA contains multiple signals that control distinct steps of the viral replication cycle such as transcription, reverse transcription, genomic RNA dimerization, splicing, and packaging. It is likely that fine tuned coordinated regulation of these functions is achieved through specific RNA-protein and RNA-RNA interactions. In a search for cis-acting elements important for the tertiary structure of the 5'-untranslated region of HIV-1 genomic RNA, we identified, by ladder selection experiments, a short stretch of nucleotides directly downstream of the poly(A) signal that interacts with a nucleotide sequence located in the matrix region. Confirmation of the sequence of the interacting sites was obtained by partial or complete inhibition of this interaction by antisense oligonucleotides and by nucleotide substitutions. In the wild type RNA, this long range interaction was intramolecular, since no intermolecular RNA association was detected by gel electrophoresis with an RNA mutated in the dimerization initiation site and containing both sequences involved in the tertiary interaction. Moreover, the functional importance of this interaction is supported by its conservation in all HIV-1 isolates as well as in HIV-2 and simian immunodeficiency virus. Our results raise the possibility that this long range RNA-RNA interaction might be involved in the full-length genomic RNA selection during packaging, repression of the 5' polyadenylation signal, and/or splicing regulation.
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- Jean-Christophe Paillart
- UPR 9002 du CNRS, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 15 rue René Descartes, Strasbourg F-67084, France.
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Rong L, Liang C, Hsu M, Guo X, Roques BP, Wainberg MA. HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein and the secondary structure of the binary complex formed between tRNA(Lys.3) and viral RNA template play different roles during initiation of (-) strand DNA reverse transcription. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:47725-32. [PMID: 11602578 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m105124200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the tRNA(Lys.3) primer and viral RNA template can form a specific complex that is characterized by extensive inter- and intramolecular interactions. Initiation of reverse transcription from this complex has been shown to be distinguished from subsequent elongation by early pausing events, such as at the +1 and +3 nucleotide positions. One major concern regarding the biological relevance of these results is that most kinetic studies of HIV-1 reverse transcription have been performed using tRNA(Lys.3)-viral (v) RNA complexes that were formed by heat annealing. In contrast, tRNA(Lys.3) in viruses is placed onto the primer binding site by nucleocapsid (NC) sequences of the Gag protein. In this study, we have further characterized the initiation features of reverse transcription in the presence of HIV-1 NC protein. In contrast to results obtained with a heat-annealed tRNA(Lys.3).vRNA complex, we found that polymerization reactions catalyzed by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase did not commonly pause at the +1 nucleotide position when a NC-annealed RNA complex was used, and that this was true regardless whether NC was actually still present during reverse transcription. This activity of NC required both zinc finger motifs, as demonstrated by experiments that employed zinc finger-mutated forms of NC protein (H23C NC and ddNC), supporting the involvement of the zinc fingers in the RNA chaperone activity of NC. However, NC was not able to help reverse transcriptase to escape the +3 pausing event. Mutagenesis of a stem structure within the tRNA(Lys.3). vRNA complex led to disappearance of the +3 pausing event as well as to significantly reduced rates of reverse transcription. Thus, this stem structure is essential for optimal reverse transcription, despite its role in promotion of the +3 pausing event.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Western
- COS Cells
- DNA Primers/pharmacology
- DNA, Viral/chemistry
- DNA, Viral/metabolism
- HIV-1/genetics
- HIV-1/metabolism
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Nucleocapsid Proteins/chemistry
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA, Transfer, Lys/chemistry
- RNA, Viral/chemistry
- RNA, Viral/metabolism
- RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Zinc Fingers
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- L Rong
- McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada
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Miller JT, Ehresmann B, Hübscher U, Le Grice SF. A novel interaction of tRNA(Lys,3) with the feline immunodeficiency virus RNA genome governs initiation of minus strand DNA synthesis. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:27721-30. [PMID: 11353768 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m100513200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Complementarity between nucleotides at the 5' terminus of tRNA(Lys,3) and the U5-IR loop of the feline immunodeficiency virus RNA genome suggests a novel intermolecular interaction controls initiation of minus strand synthesis in a manner analogous to other retroviral systems. Base pairing of this tRNA-viral RNA duplex was confirmed by nuclease mapping of the RNA genome containing full-length or 5'-deleted variants of tRNA(Lys,3) hybridized to the primer-binding site. A major pause in RNA-dependent DNA synthesis occurred 14 nucleotides ahead of the primer-binding site with natural and synthetic tRNA(Lys,3) primers, indicating it was not a consequence of tRNA base modifications. The majority of the paused complexes resulted in dissociation of the reverse transcriptase from the template/primer, as demonstrated by an assay limited to a single binding event. Hybridization of a tRNA mutant whose 5' nucleotides are deleted relieved pausing at this position and subsequently allowed high level DNA synthesis. Additional experiments with tRNA-DNA chimeric primers were used to localize the stage of minus strand synthesis at which the tRNA-viral RNA interaction was disrupted. Finally, replacing nucleotides of the feline immunodeficiency virus U5-IR loop with the (A)(4) sequence of its human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 counterpart also relieved pausing, but did not induce pausing immediately downstream of the primer-binding site previously noted during initiation of HIV-1 DNA synthesis. These combined observations provide further evidence of cis-acting sequences immediately adjacent to the primer-binding site controlling initiation of minus strand DNA synthesis in retroviruses and retrotransposons.
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- J T Miller
- HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
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Liang C, Rong L, Russell RS, Wainberg MA. Deletion mutagenesis downstream of the 5' long terminal repeat of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is compensated for by point mutations in both the U5 region and gag gene. J Virol 2000; 74:6251-61. [PMID: 10864634 PMCID: PMC112130 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.14.6251-6261.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We have studied the role of an RNA region at nucleotides (nt) +200 to +233, just downstream of the 5' long terminal repeat, in encapsidation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genomic RNA. Three deletion mutations, namely, BH-D0, BH-D1, and BH-D2, were generated to eliminate sequences at positions nt +200 to +219, +200 to +226, and +200 to +233. The result in each case was decreased levels of packaging of viral RNA into the mutated viruses, with the BH-D2 virus being the most severely affected. Consistently, all three deletions resulted in impaired viral infectiousness and the BH-D2 mutation showed the most dramatic impact in this regard. Further analysis revealed additional defects in Gag precursor processing and in the extension efficiency of the tRNA(3)(Lys) primer in reverse transcription reactions performed with these mutated viruses. To shed further light on the function of these deleted sequences in viral replication, the mutated viruses were cultured in MT-2 cells over prolonged periods to enable them to reacquire wild-type replication kinetics. Sequencing of the reverted viruses revealed point mutations in both the noncoding region and the gag gene. In the case of the BH-D0 revertant, two mutations were observed at positions G112A in the U5 region, termed M1, and T24I in the nucleocapsid protein, termed MNC, respectively. Either of these two mutations was able to confer wild-type replication capacity on BH-D0. In the case of BH-D1, each of the M1 mutations, a mutation termed M2, i.e., C227T, just downstream of the primer binding site, a mutation termed MP2 (T12I) in the p2 protein, and the MNC mutation were observed. A combination of either M1 and M2 or MP2 and MNC was able to rescue BH-D1. In the case of the BH-D2 deletion-containing viruses, three point mutations, i.e., M1, MP2, and MNC, were observed and the presence of all three was required to restore viral replication to wild-type levels.
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- C Liang
- McGill AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Québec, Canada H3T 1E2
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Liang C, Rong L, Götte M, Li X, Quan Y, Kleiman L, Wainberg MA. Mechanistic studies of early pausing events during initiation of HIV-1 reverse transcription. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:21309-15. [PMID: 9694891 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.33.21309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
We have investigated the role of sequences that surround the primer binding site (PBS) in the reverse transcriptase-mediated initiation of (-) strand DNA synthesis in human immunodeficiency virus type 1. In comparisons of reverse transcription initiated from either the cognate primer tRNALys.3 or a DNA primer D-Lys.3, bound to PBS sequences, we observed that a +3 pausing site occurred in both circumstances. However, the initiation reaction with tRNALys.3 was also characterized by a pausing event after incorporation of the first nucleotide. Alteration of sequences at the 5'-end instead of the 3'-end of the PBS resulted in elimination of the +3 pausing site, suggesting that this site was template sequence-dependent. In contrast, the pausing event at the +1 nucleotide position was still present in experiments that employed either of these mutated RNA templates. The mutations at the 5'-end of the PBS also caused a severely diminished rate of initiation and the strong arrest of reactions at the +1 stage when tRNALys.3 was used as primer. Therefore, we propose that the +1 pausing event is an initiation-specific event in regard to reactions primed by tRNALys.3 and that sequences at the 5'-end of the PBS may facilitate the release of reverse transcription from initiation to elongation.
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- C Liang
- McGill University AIDS Centre, Lady Davis Institute-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada
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Whiting SH, Champoux JJ. Properties of strand displacement synthesis by Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase: mechanistic implications. J Mol Biol 1998; 278:559-77. [PMID: 9600839 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Previous results indicated that Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase is capable of extensive synthesis under conditions where it must simultaneously displace a downstream non-template DNA strand. To investigate more fully the mechanistic basis for displacement synthesis and to characterize the activity with natural viral templates, displacement and non-displacement synthesis were compared under a variety of conditions using the viral long terminal repeat plus strand as the template. Although the rates of both displacement and non-displacement synthesis varied regionally over the template, on the average, displacement synthesis was slower by a factor of approximately 3 to 4. Surprisingly, with one particular primer situated downstream of the tRNA primer binding site, displacement synthesis was found to be at least tenfold more processive than non-displacement synthesis, approaching a value of 500 nucleotides. The sequence features associated with pausing during the two modes of synthesis are different in both nucleotide preference and position relative to the enzyme, suggesting that the enzyme contacts the DNA differently under the two modes of synthesis. It was found that pausing during displacement synthesis did not reflect those local regions of DNA with a predicted high degree of thermal stability. Moreover, the very similar effects of temperature on the rates of displacement and non-displacement synthesis make unlikely a strictly passive mechanism of displacement synthesis whereby breathing of the downstream duplex is sufficient for advancement of the polymerase. Together, these results suggest a mechanism of displacement synthesis in which reverse transcriptase actively participates in the process of strand separation in front of the translocating polymerase.
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Affiliation(s)
- S H Whiting
- School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7242, USA
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