Centrosome amplification and aneuploidy driven by the HIV-1-induced Vpr•VprBP•Plk4 complex in CD4+ T cells

Abstract HIV-1 infection elevates the risk of developing various cancers, including T-cell lymphoma. Whether HIV-1-encoded proteins directly contribute to oncogenesis remains unknown. We observed that approximately 1–5% of CD4+ T cells from the blood of people living with HIV-1 exhibit over-duplicated centrioles, suggesting that centrosome amplification underlies the development of HIV-1-associated cancers by driving aneuploidy. Through affinity purification, biochemical, and cell biology analyses, we discovered that Vpr, an accessory protein of HIV-1, hijacks the centriole duplication machinery and induces centrosome amplification and aneuploidy. Mechanistically, Vpr formed a cooperative ternary complex with an E3 ligase subunit, VprBP, and polo-like kinase 4 (Plk4). Unexpectedly, however, the complex enhanced Plk4’s functionality by promoting its relocalization to the procentriole assembly and induced centrosome amplification. Loss of either Vpr’s C-terminal 17 residues or VprBP acidic region, the two elements required for binding to Plk4 cryptic polo-box, abrogated Vpr’s capacity to induce all these events. Furthermore, HIV-1 WT, but not its Vpr mutant, induced multiple centrosomes and aneuploidy in primary CD4+ T cells. We propose that the Vpr•VprBP•Plk4 complex serves as a molecular link that connects HIV-1 infection to oncogenesis and that inhibiting the Vpr C-terminal motif may reduce the occurrence of HIV-1-associated cancers..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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ResearchSquare.com - (2024) vom: 06. März Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Kyung [VerfasserIn]
Park, Jung-Eun [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Tae-Sung [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Monnie, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Alam, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Mikolaj, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Maldarelli, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Narayan, Kedar [VerfasserIn]
Ahn, Jinwoo [VerfasserIn]
Ashwell, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Strebel, Klaus [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-2924123/v1

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XRA040605418