Transactive response DNA-binding Protein (TDP-43) regulates early HIV-1 entry and infection

Abstract The transactive response DNA-binding protein (TDP-43) is an important regulator of mRNA, being reported to stabilize the anti-HIV factor, histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6). However, little is known about the role of TDP-43 in HIV infection. In this work, we seek for the TDP-43 function on regulating CD4+ T cell permissibility to HIV infection. We observed that over-expression of wt-TDP-43 in CD4+ T cells stabilized HDAC6, increasing mRNA and the protein levels of this antiviral enzyme. Under this experimental condition, HIV-1 infection was impaired, independently of the viral envelope glycoprotein (Env) complex tropism. The results obtained by using an HIV-1 Env-mediated cell-to-cell fusion model, under the same experimental conditions, suggest that the increase in TDP-43 levels negatively affects the viral Env fusion capacity. Moreover, the specific siRNA silencing of endogenous TDP-43 in target cells lead to a significant decrease in the levels of HDAC6 which consistently induces an increase in the fusogenic and infection activities of the HIV-1 Env. These observations were confirmed by using primary viral Envs from HIV+ individuals with different clinical phenotypes. An increase in the level of expression of wt-TDP-43 strongly reduced the Envs infection activity of viremic non-progressors (VNP) and rapid progressors (RP) HIV+ individuals down to the levels of the inefficient HIV-1 Envs from long-term non-progressor elite controllers (LTNP-EC) individuals. On the contrary, low levels of endogenous TDP-43, obtained after specific siRNA-TDP-43 knocking-down, significantly favors the infection activity of primary HIV-1 Envs of VNP and RP individuals, leading to an increase in the infection ability of the primary HIV-1/LTNP-EC Envs. Based on this evidence, we interpret that TDP-43 conditions cell permissibility to HIV infection by affecting viral Env fusion and infection capacities, at least by altering the cellular levels of the antiviral enzyme HDAC6..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 10. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

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Englisch

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Cabrera-Rodríguez, Romina [VerfasserIn]
Pérez-Yanes, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
González-Montelongo, Rafaela [VerfasserIn]
Lorenzo-Salazar, José M. [VerfasserIn]
Estévez-Herrera, Judith [VerfasserIn]
García-Luis, Jonay [VerfasserIn]
Íñigo-Campos, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Rubio-Rodríguez, Luis A. [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz-Barrera, Adrián [VerfasserIn]
Trujillo-González, Rodrigo [VerfasserIn]
Dorta-Guerra, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Casado, Concha [VerfasserIn]
Pernas, María [VerfasserIn]
Blanco, Julià [VerfasserIn]
Flores, Carlos [VerfasserIn]
Valenzuela-Fernández, Agustín [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/2021.12.06.471424

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XBI033176736