Induction of E. coli-derived endonuclease MazF suppresses HIV-1 production and causes apoptosis in latently infected cells

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The current antiretroviral therapy cannot cure the patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) due to the existence of latently infected cells capable of virus production from harboring proviral DNA. MazF is an ACA nucleotide sequence-specific endoribonuclease derived from Escherichia coli. The conditional expression of MazF by binding of HIV-1 Tat to the promoter region of a MazF-expression vector has previously been shown to selectively inhibit HIV-1 replication in acutely infected cells. The expression of MazF significantly suppressed tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α-induced HIV-1 production and viral RNA expression in the HIV-1 latently infected cell line OM-10.1 transduced with the MazF-expression vector (OM-10.1/MFR). Moreover, the viability of OM-10.1/MFR cells decreased with increasing concentrations of TNF-α, whereas such decrease was not observed for HL-60 cells transduced with the MazF-expression vector (HL-60/MFR), the uninfected parental cell line of OM-10.1. TNF-α increased the expression of cleaved caspase-3 and cleaved poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase in OM-10.1/MFR cells, indicating that the cell death was caused by the induction of apoptosis. TNF-α-induced expression of MazF mRNA was detected in OM-10.1/MFR but not HL-60/MFR cells, suggesting that TNF-α-induced apoptosis of latently infected cells was due to the expression of MazF. Thus, the anti-HIV-1 gene therapy using the MazF-expression vector may have potential for the cure of HIV-1 infection in combination with suitable latency reversing agents through reducing the size of latently infected cells without viral reactivation.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:530

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Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 530(2020), 3 vom: 24. Sept., Seite 597-602

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Okamoto, Mika [VerfasserIn]
Chono, Hideto [VerfasserIn]
Hidaka, Akemi [VerfasserIn]
Toyama, Masaaki [VerfasserIn]
Mineno, Junichi [VerfasserIn]
Baba, Masanori [VerfasserIn]

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Apoptosis
DNA-Binding Proteins
EC 3.1.-
Endoribonucleases
Escherichia coli Proteins
Gene therapy
HIV-1
Journal Article
Latent infection
MazF
MazF protein, E coli

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Date Completed 16.03.2021

Date Revised 16.03.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.07.103

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NLM313224021