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Zeiger M, Pires M, Didier P, Vauchelles R, Mély Y, Boutant E, Real E. HIV-1 Gag Compact form Stabilized by Intramolecular Interactions is Crucial for Infectious Particle Production. J Mol Biol 2024; 436:168639. [PMID: 38838849 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024]
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HIV-1 Gag polyprotein plays a pivotal role in assembly and budding of new particles, by specifically packaging two copies of viral gRNA in the host cell cytoplasm and selecting the cell plasma membrane for budding. Both gRNA and membrane selections are thought to be mediated by the compact form of Gag. This compact form binds to gRNA through both its matrix (MA) and nucleocapsid (NC) domains in the cytoplasm. At the plasma membrane, the membrane competes with gRNA for Gag binding, resulting in a transition to the extended form of Gag found in immature particles with MA bound to membrane lipids and NC to gRNA. The Gag compact form was previously evidenced in vitro. Here, we demonstrated the compact form of Gag in cells by confocal microscopy, using a bimolecular fluorescence complementation approach with a split-GFP bipartite system. Using wild-type Gag and Gag mutants, we showed that the compact form is highly dependent on the binding of MA and NC domains to RNA, as well as on interactions between MA and CA domains. In contrast, Gag multimerization appears to be less critical for the accumulation of the compact form. Finally, mutations altering the formation of Gag compact form led to a strong reduction in viral particle production and infectivity, revealing its key role in the production of infectious viral particles.
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- Manon Zeiger
- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France
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- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France.
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- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France.
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- UMR 7021, CNRS, Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies - LBP, Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, Illkirch, France.
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Denieva Z, Kuzmin PI, Galimzyanov TR, Datta SAK, Rein A, Batishchev OV. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Gag Polyprotein Modulates Membrane Physical Properties like a Surfactant: Potential Implications for Virus Assembly. ACS Infect Dis 2024; 10:2870-2885. [PMID: 38917054 PMCID: PMC11320576 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.4c00251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2024] [Revised: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 06/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) assembly at an infected cell's plasma membrane requires membrane deformation to organize the near-spherical shape of an immature virus. While the cellular expression of HIV Gag is sufficient to initiate budding of virus-like particles, how Gag generates membrane curvature is not fully understood. Using highly curved lipid nanotubes, we have investigated the physicochemical basis of the membrane activity of recombinant nonmyristoylated Gag-Δp6. Gag protein, upon adsorption onto the membrane, resulted in the shape changes of both charged and uncharged nanotubes. This shape change was more pronounced in the presence of charged lipids, especially phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2). We found that Gag modified the interfacial tension of phospholipid bilayer membranes, as judged by comparison with the effects of amphipathic peptides and nonionic detergent. Bioinformatic analysis demonstrated that a region of the capsid and SP1 domains junction of Gag is structurally similar to the amphipathic peptide magainin-1. This region accounts for integral changes in the physical properties of the membrane upon Gag adsorption, as we showed with the synthetic CA-SP1 junction peptide. Phenomenologically, membrane-adsorbed Gag could diminish the energetic cost of increasing the membrane area in a way similar to foam formation. We propose that Gag acts as a surface-active substance at the HIV budding site that softens the membrane at the place of Gag adsorption, lowering the energy for membrane bending. Finally, our experimental data and theoretical considerations give a lipid-centric view and common mechanism by which proteins could bend membranes, despite not having intrinsic curvature in their molecular surfaces or assemblies.
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- Zaret
G. Denieva
- A.N.
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, RAS, Leninsky pr., 31, bld. 4, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- A.N.
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, RAS, Leninsky pr., 31, bld. 4, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- A.N.
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, RAS, Leninsky pr., 31, bld. 4, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Retroviral
Assembly Section, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for
Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- Retroviral
Assembly Section, HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for
Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, United States
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- A.N.
Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, RAS, Leninsky pr., 31, bld. 4, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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Smith KP, Chakravarthy S, Rahi A, Chakraborty M, Vosberg KM, Tonelli M, Plach MG, Grigorescu AA, Curtis JE, Varma D. SAXS/MC studies of the mixed-folded protein Cdt1 reveal monomeric, folded over conformations. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.01.03.573975. [PMID: 38260441 PMCID: PMC10802334 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.03.573975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Cdt1 is a protein critical for DNA replication licensing and is well-established to be a binding partner of the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) complex. Cdt1 has also been demonstrated to have an emerging, "moonlighting" role at the kinetochore via direct binding to microtubules and to the Ndc80 complex. However, it is not known how the structure and conformations of Cdt1 could allow for these multiple, completely unique sets of protein complexes. And while there exist multiple robust methods to study entirely folded or entirely unfolded proteins, structure-function studies of combined, mixed folded/disordered proteins remain challenging. It this work, we employ multiple orthogonal biophysical and computational techniques to provide a detailed structural characterization of human Cdt1 92-546. DSF and DSCD show both folded winged helix (WH) domains of Cdt1 are relatively unstable. CD and NMR show the N-terminal and the linker regions are intrinsically disordered. Using DLS and SEC-MALS, we show that Cdt1 is polydisperse, monomeric at high concentrations, and without any apparent inter-molecular self-association. SEC-SAXS of the monomer in solution enabled computational modeling of the protein in silico. Using the program SASSIE, we performed rigid body Monte Carlo simulations to generate a conformational ensemble. Using experimental SAXS data, we filtered for conformations which did and did not fit our data. We observe that neither fully extended nor extremely compact Cdt1 conformations are consistent with our SAXS data. The best fit models have the N-terminal and linker regions extended into solution and the two folded domains close to each other in apparent "folded over" conformations. The best fit Cdt1 conformations are consistent with a function as a scaffold protein which may be sterically blocked without the presence of binding partners. Our studies also provide a template for combining experimental and computational biophysical techniques to study mixed-folded proteins.
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- Kyle P Smith
- Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Present Address, Xylia Therapeutics, Waltham, MA, 02451, USA
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- Biophysics Collaborative Access Team, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Keck Biophysics Facility, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 6102, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, United States
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- Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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Banerjee P, Voth GA. Conformational transitions of the HIV-1 Gag polyprotein upon multimerization and gRNA binding. Biophys J 2024; 123:42-56. [PMID: 37978800 PMCID: PMC10808027 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 10/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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During the HIV-1 assembly process, the Gag polyprotein multimerizes at the producer cell plasma membrane, resulting in the formation of spherical immature virus particles. Gag-genomic RNA (gRNA) interactions play a crucial role in the multimerization process, which is yet to be fully understood. We performed large-scale all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of membrane-bound full-length Gag dimer, hexamer, and 18-mer. The inter-domain dynamic correlation of Gag, quantified by the heterogeneous elastic network model applied to the simulated trajectories, is observed to be altered by implicit gRNA binding, as well as the multimerization state of the Gag. The lateral dynamics of our simulated membrane-bound Gag proteins, with and without gRNA binding, agree with prior experimental data and help to validate our simulation models and methods. The gRNA binding is observed to affect mainly the SP1 domain of the 18-mer and the matrix-capsid linker domain of the hexamer. In the absence of gRNA binding, the independent dynamical motion of the nucleocapsid domain results in a collapsed state of the dimeric Gag. Unlike stable SP1 helices in the six-helix bundle, without IP6 binding, the SP1 domain undergoes a spontaneous helix-to-coil transition in the dimeric Gag. Together, our findings reveal conformational switches of Gag at different stages of the multimerization process and predict that the gRNA binding reinforces an efficient binding surface of Gag for multimerization, and also regulates the dynamic organization of the local membrane region itself.
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- Puja Banerjee
- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Chemistry, Chicago Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
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Banerjee P, Voth GA. Conformational transitions of the HIV-1 Gag polyprotein upon multimerization and gRNA binding. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.08.16.553549. [PMID: 37645781 PMCID: PMC10462060 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.16.553549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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During the HIV-1 assembly process, the Gag polyprotein multimerizes at the producer cell plasma membrane, resulting in the formation of spherical immature virus particles. Gag-gRNA interactions play a crucial role in the multimerization process, which is yet to be fully understood. We have performed large-scale all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of membrane-bound full-length Gag dimer, hexamer, and 18-mer. The inter-domain dynamic correlation of Gag, quantified by the heterogeneous elastic network model (hENM) applied to the simulated trajectories, is observed to be altered by implicit gRNA binding, as well as the multimerization state of the Gag. The lateral dynamics of our simulated membrane-bound Gag proteins, with and without gRNA binding, agree with prior experimental data and help to validate our simulation models and methods. The gRNA binding is observed to impact mainly the SP1 domain of the 18-mer and the MA-CA linker domain of the hexamer. In the absence of gRNA binding, the independent dynamical motion of the NC domain results in a collapsed state of the dimeric Gag. Unlike stable SP1 helices in the six-helix bundle, without IP6 binding, the SP1 domain undergoes a spontaneous helix-to-coil transition in the dimeric Gag. Together, our findings reveal conformational switches of Gag at different stages of the multimerization process and predict that the gRNA binding reinforces an efficient binding surface of Gag for multimerization, as well as regulates the dynamic organization of the local membrane region itself. Significance Gag(Pr 55 Gag ) polyprotein orchestrates many essential events in HIV-1 assembly, including packaging of the genomic RNA (gRNA) in the immature virion. Although various experimental techniques, such as cryo-ET, X-ray, and NMR, have revealed structural properties of individual domains in the immature Gag clusters, structural and biophysical characterization of a full-length Gag molecule remains a challenge for existing experimental techniques. Using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of the different model systems of Gag polyprotein, we present here a detailed structural characterization of Gag molecules in different multimerization states and interrogate the synergy between Gag-Gag, Gag-membrane, and Gag-gRNA interactions during the viral assembly process.
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Monette A, Niu M, Maldonado RK, Chang J, Lambert GS, Flanagan JM, Cochrane A, Parent LJ, Mouland AJ. Influence of HIV-1 Genomic RNA on the Formation of Gag Biomolecular Condensates. J Mol Biol 2023; 435:168190. [PMID: 37385580 PMCID: PMC10838171 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Revised: 06/18/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Biomolecular condensates (BMCs) play an important role in the replication of a growing number of viruses, but many important mechanistic details remain to be elucidated. Previously, we demonstrated that the pan-retroviral nucleocapsid (NC) and HIV-1 pr55Gag (Gag) proteins phase separate into condensates, and that HIV-1 protease (PR)-mediated maturation of Gag and Gag-Pol precursor proteins yields self-assembling BMCs that have HIV-1 core architecture. Using biochemical and imaging techniques, we aimed to further characterize the phase separation of HIV-1 Gag by determining which of its intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) influence the formation of BMCs, and how the HIV-1 viral genomic RNA (gRNA) could influence BMC abundance and size. We found that mutations in the Gag matrix (MA) domain or the NC zinc finger motifs altered condensate number and size in a salt-dependent manner. Gag BMCs were also bimodally influenced by the gRNA, with a condensate-promoting regime at lower protein concentrations and a gel dissolution at higher protein concentrations. Interestingly, incubation of Gag with CD4+ T cell nuclear lysates led to the formation of larger BMCs compared to much smaller ones observed in the presence of cytoplasmic lysates. These findings suggest that the composition and properties of Gag-containing BMCs may be altered by differential association of host factors in nuclear and cytosolic compartments during virus assembly. This study significantly advances our understanding of HIV-1 Gag BMC formation and provides a foundation for future therapeutic targeting of virion assembly.
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- Anne Monette
- Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec H3T 1E2, Canada
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- Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec H3T 1E2, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States.
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- Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec H3T 1E2, Canada; Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H4A 3J1, Canada.
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Monette A, Niu M, Maldonado RK, Chang J, Lambert GS, Flanagan JM, Cochrane A, Parent LJ, Mouland AJ. Influence of HIV-1 genomic RNA on the formation of Gag biomolecular condensates. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.02.23.529585. [PMID: 36865181 PMCID: PMC9980109 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.23.529585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Biomolecular condensates (BMCs) play an important role in the replication of a growing number of viruses, but many important mechanistic details remain to be elucidated. Previously, we demonstrated that pan-retroviral nucleocapsid (NC) and the HIV-1 pr55 Gag (Gag) proteins phase separate into condensates, and that HIV-1 protease (PR)-mediated maturation of Gag and Gag-Pol precursor proteins yield self-assembling BMCs having HIV-1 core architecture. Using biochemical and imaging techniques, we aimed to further characterize the phase separation of HIV-1 Gag by determining which of its intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) influence the formation of BMCs and how the HIV-1 viral genomic RNA (gRNA) could influence BMC abundance and size. We found that mutations in the Gag matrix (MA) domain or the NC zinc finger motifs altered condensate number and size in a salt-dependent manner. Gag BMCs were also bimodally influenced by the gRNA, with a condensate-promoting regime at lower protein concentrations and a gel dissolution at higher protein concentrations. Interestingly, incubation of Gag with CD4 + T cell nuclear lysates led to the formation of larger BMCs as compared to much smaller ones observed in the presence of cytoplasmic lysates. These findings suggests that the composition and properties of Gag-containing BMCs may be altered by differential association of host factors in nuclear and cytosolic compartments during virus assembly. This study significantly advances our understanding of HIV-1 Gag BMC formation and provides a foundation for future therapeutic targeting of virion assembly.
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Identification of New L-Heptanoylphosphatidyl Inositol Pentakisphosphate Derivatives Targeting the Interaction with HIV-1 Gag by Molecular Modelling Studies. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2022; 15:ph15101255. [PMID: 36297367 PMCID: PMC9610595 DOI: 10.3390/ph15101255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 09/29/2022] [Accepted: 10/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The HIV-1 Gag protein binds to the host cell membrane and assembles into immature particles. Then, in the course of immature virion budding, activated protease cleaves Gag into its main components: MA, CA, NC, and p6 proteins. The highly basic residues of MA predominantly interact with the acidic head of phosphatidyl-inositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2) inserted into the membrane. Our research group developed L-Heptanoylphosphatidyl Inositol Pentakisphosphate (L-HIPPO) and previously confirmed that this compound bound to the MA more strongly than PI(4,5)P2 and inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6) did. Therefore, herein we rationally designed eight new L-HIPPO derivatives based on the fact that the most changeable parts of L-HIPPO were two acyl chains. After that, we employed molecular docking for eight compounds via Maestro software using high-resolution crystal structures of MA in complex with IP6 (PDB IDs: 7E1I, 7E1J, and 7E1K), which were recently elucidated by our research group. The most promising docking scores were obtained with benzene-inserted compounds. Thus, we generated a library containing 213 new aromatic group-inserted L-HIPPO derivatives and performed the same molecular docking procedure. According to the results, we determined the nine new L-HIPPO derivatives most effectively binding to the MA with the most favorable scoring functions and pharmacokinetic properties for further exploration.
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Krueger S. Planning, executing and assessing the validity of SANS contrast variation experiments. Methods Enzymol 2022; 677:127-155. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2022.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Plasma Membrane Anchoring and Gag:Gag Multimerization on Viral RNA Are Critical Properties of HIV-1 Gag Required To Mediate Efficient Genome Packaging. mBio 2021; 12:e0325421. [PMID: 34872357 PMCID: PMC8649766 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03254-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag selects and packages the HIV RNA genome during virus assembly. However, HIV-1 RNA constitutes only a small fraction of the cellular RNA. Although Gag exhibits a slight preference to viral RNA, most of the cytoplasmic Gag proteins are associated with cellular RNAs. Thus, it is not understood how HIV-1 achieves highly efficient genome packaging. We hypothesize that besides RNA binding, other properties of Gag are important for genome packaging. Many Gag mutants have assembly defects that preclude analysis of their effects on genome packaging. To bypass this challenge, we established complementation systems that separate the particle-assembling and RNA-binding functions of Gag: we used a set of Gag proteins to drive particle assembly and an RNA-binding Gag to package HIV-1 RNA. We have developed two types of RNA-binding Gag in which packaging is mediated by the authentic nucleocapsid (NC) domain or by a nonviral RNA-binding domain. We found that in both cases, mutations that affect the multimerization or plasma membrane anchoring properties of Gag reduce or abolish RNA packaging. These mutant Gag can coassemble into particles but cannot package the RNA genome efficiently. Our findings indicate that HIV-1 RNA packaging occurs at the plasma membrane and RNA-binding Gag needs to multimerize on RNA to encapsidate the viral genome.
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A Structural Perspective of the Role of IP6 in Immature and Mature Retroviral Assembly. Viruses 2021; 13:v13091853. [PMID: 34578434 PMCID: PMC8473085 DOI: 10.3390/v13091853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The small cellular molecule inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6) has been known for ~20 years to promote the in vitro assembly of HIV-1 into immature virus-like particles. However, the molecular details underlying this effect have been determined only recently, with the identification of the IP6 binding site in the immature Gag lattice. IP6 also promotes formation of the mature capsid protein (CA) lattice via a second IP6 binding site, and enhances core stability, creating a favorable environment for reverse transcription. IP6 also enhances assembly of other retroviruses, from both the Lentivirus and the Alpharetrovirus genera. These findings suggest that IP6 may have a conserved function throughout the family Retroviridae. Here, we discuss the different steps in the viral life cycle that are influenced by IP6, and describe in detail how IP6 interacts with the immature and mature lattices of different retroviruses.
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Seychell BC, Beck T. Molecular basis for protein-protein interactions. Beilstein J Org Chem 2021; 17:1-10. [PMID: 33488826 PMCID: PMC7801801 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.17.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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This minireview provides an overview on the current knowledge of protein-protein interactions, common characterisation methods to characterise them, and their role in protein complex formation with some examples. A deep understanding of protein-protein interactions and their molecular interactions is important for a number of applications, including drug design. Protein-protein interactions and their discovery are thus an interesting avenue for understanding how protein complexes, which make up the majority of proteins, work.
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- Brandon Charles Seychell
- Universität Hamburg, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Universität Hamburg, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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Meusser B, Purfuerst B, Luft FC. HIV-1 Gag release from yeast reveals ESCRT interaction with the Gag N-terminal protein region. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:17950-17972. [PMID: 32994219 PMCID: PMC7939435 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The HIV-1 protein Gag assembles at the plasma membrane and drives virion budding, assisted by the cellular endosomal complex required for transport (ESCRT) proteins. Two ESCRT proteins, TSG101 and ALIX, bind to the Gag C-terminal p6 peptide. TSG101 binding is important for efficient HIV-1 release, but how ESCRTs contribute to the budding process and how their activity is coordinated with Gag assembly is poorly understood. Yeast, allowing genetic manipulation that is not easily available in human cells, has been used to characterize the cellular ESCRT function. Previous work reported Gag budding from yeast spheroplasts, but Gag release was ESCRT-independent. We developed a yeast model for ESCRT-dependent Gag release. We combined yeast genetics and Gag mutational analysis with Gag-ESCRT binding studies and the characterization of Gag-plasma membrane binding and Gag release. With our system, we identified a previously unknown interaction between ESCRT proteins and the Gag N-terminal protein region. Mutations in the Gag-plasma membrane-binding matrix domain that reduced Gag-ESCRT binding increased Gag-plasma membrane binding and Gag release. ESCRT knockout mutants showed that the release enhancement was an ESCRT-dependent effect. Similarly, matrix mutation enhanced Gag release from human HEK293 cells. Release enhancement partly depended on ALIX binding to p6, although binding site mutation did not impair WT Gag release. Accordingly, the relative affinity for matrix compared with p6 in GST-pulldown experiments was higher for ALIX than for TSG101. We suggest that a transient matrix-ESCRT interaction is replaced when Gag binds to the plasma membrane. This step may activate ESCRT proteins and thereby coordinate ESCRT function with virion assembly.
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- Birgit Meusser
- Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin, Germany; Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin, Germany; Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany.
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How HIV-1 Gag Manipulates Its Host Cell Proteins: A Focus on Interactors of the Nucleocapsid Domain. Viruses 2020; 12:v12080888. [PMID: 32823718 PMCID: PMC7471995 DOI: 10.3390/v12080888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) polyprotein Gag (Group-specific antigen) plays a central role in controlling the late phase of the viral lifecycle. Considered to be only a scaffolding protein for a long time, the structural protein Gag plays determinate and specific roles in HIV-1 replication. Indeed, via its different domains, Gag orchestrates the specific encapsidation of the genomic RNA, drives the formation of the viral particle by its auto-assembly (multimerization), binds multiple viral proteins, and interacts with a large number of cellular proteins that are needed for its functions from its translation location to the plasma membrane, where newly formed virions are released. Here, we review the interactions between HIV-1 Gag and 66 cellular proteins. Notably, we describe the techniques used to evidence these interactions, the different domains of Gag involved, and the implications of these interactions in the HIV-1 replication cycle. In the final part, we focus on the interactions involving the highly conserved nucleocapsid (NC) domain of Gag and detail the functions of the NC interactants along the viral lifecycle.
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Wen Y, Feigenson GW, Vogt VM, Dick RA. Mechanisms of PI(4,5)P2 Enrichment in HIV-1 Viral Membranes. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:5343-5364. [PMID: 32739462 PMCID: PMC8262684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Revised: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) is critical for HIV-1 virus assembly. The viral membrane is enriched in PIP2, suggesting that the virus assembles at PIP2-rich microdomains. We showed previously that in model membranes PIP2 can form nanoscopic clusters bridged by multivalent cations. Here, using purified proteins we quantitated the binding of HIV-1 Gag-related proteins to giant unilamellar vesicles containing either clustered or free PIP2. Myristoylated MA strongly preferred binding to clustered PIP2. By contrast, unmyristoylated HIV-1 MA, RSV MA, and a PH domain all preferred to interact with free PIP2. We also found that HIV-1 Gag multimerization promotes PIP2 clustering. Truncated Gag proteins comprising the MA, CA, and SP domains (MACASP) or the MA and CA domains (MACA) induced self-quenching of acyl chain-labeled fluorescent PIP2 in liposomes, implying clustering. However, HIV-1 MA itself did not induce PIP2 clustering. A CA inter-hexamer dimer interface mutation led to a loss of induced PIP2 clustering in MACA, indicating the importance of protein multimerization. Cryo-electron tomography of liposomes with bound MACA showed an amorphous protein layer on the membrane surface. Thus, it appears that while protein–protein interactions are required for PIP2 clustering, formation of a regular lattice is not. Protein-induced PIP2 clustering and multivalent cation-induced PIP2 clustering are additive. Taken together, these results provide the first evidence that HIV-1 Gag can selectively target pre-existing PIP2-enriched domains of the plasma membrane for viral assembly, and that Gag multimerization can further enrich PIP2 at assembly sites. These effects could explain the observed PIP2 enrichment in HIV-1.
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- Yi Wen
- Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Boutant E, Bonzi J, Anton H, Nasim MB, Cathagne R, Réal E, Dujardin D, Carl P, Didier P, Paillart JC, Marquet R, Mély Y, de Rocquigny H, Bernacchi S. Zinc Fingers in HIV-1 Gag Precursor Are Not Equivalent for gRNA Recruitment at the Plasma Membrane. Biophys J 2020; 119:419-433. [PMID: 32574557 PMCID: PMC7376094 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2020] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 05/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag precursor specifically selects the unspliced viral genomic RNA (gRNA) from the bulk of cellular and spliced viral RNAs via its nucleocapsid (NC) domain and drives gRNA encapsidation at the plasma membrane (PM). To further identify the determinants governing the intracellular trafficking of Gag-gRNA complexes and their accumulation at the PM, we compared, in living and fixed cells, the interactions between gRNA and wild-type Gag or Gag mutants carrying deletions in NC zinc fingers (ZFs) or a nonmyristoylated version of Gag. Our data showed that the deletion of both ZFs simultaneously or the complete NC domain completely abolished intracytoplasmic Gag-gRNA interactions. Deletion of either ZF delayed the delivery of gRNA to the PM but did not prevent Gag-gRNA interactions in the cytoplasm, indicating that the two ZFs display redundant roles in this respect. However, ZF2 played a more prominent role than ZF1 in the accumulation of the ribonucleoprotein complexes at the PM. Finally, the myristate group, which is mandatory for anchoring the complexes at the PM, was found to be dispensable for the association of Gag with the gRNA in the cytosol.
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- Emmanuel Boutant
- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR9002, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR9002, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR9002, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, France
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- Morphogenèse et Antigénicité du VIH et des Virus des Hépatites, Inserm - U1259 MAVIVH, Tours, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR9002, Strasbourg, France.
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Chen S, Xu J, Liu M, Rao ALN, Zandi R, Gill SS, Mohideen U. Investigation of HIV-1 Gag binding with RNAs and lipids using Atomic Force Microscopy. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0228036. [PMID: 32015565 PMCID: PMC6996966 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Atomic Force Microscopy was utilized to study the morphology of Gag, ΨRNA, and their binding complexes with lipids in a solution environment with 0.1Å vertical and 1nm lateral resolution. TARpolyA RNA was used as a RNA control. The lipid used was phospha-tidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2). The morphology of specific complexes Gag-ΨRNA, Gag-TARpolyA RNA, Gag-PI(4,5)P2 and PI(4,5)P2-ΨRNA-Gag were studied. They were imaged on either positively or negatively charged mica substrates depending on the net charges carried. Gag and its complexes consist of monomers, dimers and tetramers, which was confirmed by gel electrophoresis. The addition of specific ΨRNA to Gag is found to increase Gag multimerization. Non-specific TARpolyA RNA was found not to lead to an increase in Gag multimerization. The addition PI(4,5)P2 to Gag increases Gag multimerization, but to a lesser extent than ΨRNA. When both ΨRNA and PI(4,5)P2 are present Gag undergoes comformational changes and an even higher degree of multimerization.
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- Shaolong Chen
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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Zhao H, Datta SAK, Kim SH, To SC, Chaturvedi SK, Rein A, Schuck P. Nucleic acid-induced dimerization of HIV-1 Gag protein. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:16480-16493. [PMID: 31570521 PMCID: PMC6851336 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.010580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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HIV-1 Gag is a highly flexible multidomain protein that forms the protein lattice of the immature HIV-1 virion. In vitro, it reversibly dimerizes, but in the presence of nucleic acids (NAs), it spontaneously assembles into virus-like particles (VLPs). High-resolution structures have revealed intricate details of the interactions of the capsid (CA) domain of Gag and the flanking spacer peptide SP1 that stabilize VLPs, but much less is known about the assembly pathway and the interactions of the highly flexible NA-binding nucleocapsid (NC) domain. Here, using a novel hybrid fluorescence proximity/sedimentation velocity method in combination with calorimetric analyses, we studied initial binding events by monitoring the sizes and conformations of complexes of Gag with very short oligonucleotides. We observed that high-affinity binding of oligonucleotides induces conformational changes in Gag accompanied by the formation of complexes with a 2:1 Gag/NA stoichiometry. This NA-liganded dimerization mode is distinct from the widely studied dimer interface in the CA domain and from protein interactions arising in the SP1 region and may be mediated by protein-protein interactions localized in the NC domain. The formation of the liganded dimer is strongly enthalpically driven, resulting in higher dimerization affinity than the CA-domain dimer. Both detailed energetic and conformational analyses of different Gag constructs revealed modulatory contributions to NA-induced dimerization from both matrix and CA domains. We hypothesize that allosterically controlled self-association represents the first step of VLP assembly and, in concert with scaffolding along the NA, can seed the formation of two-dimensional arrays near the NA.
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- Huaying Zhao
- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- Dynamics of Macromolecular Assembly Section, Laboratory of Cellular Imaging and Macromolecular Biophysics, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Alfadhli A, Staubus AO, Tedbury PR, Novikova M, Freed EO, Barklis E. Analysis of HIV-1 Matrix-Envelope Cytoplasmic Tail Interactions. J Virol 2019; 93:e01079-19. [PMID: 31375589 PMCID: PMC6803273 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01079-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The matrix (MA) domains of HIV-1 precursor Gag (PrGag) proteins direct PrGag proteins to plasma membrane (PM) assembly sites where envelope (Env) protein trimers are incorporated into virus particles. MA targeting to PM sites is facilitated by its binding to phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P2], and MA binding to cellular RNAs appears to serve a chaperone function that prevents MA from associating with intracellular membranes prior to arrival at the PI(4,5)P2-rich PM. Investigations have shown genetic evidence of an interaction between MA and the cytoplasmic tails (CTs) of Env trimers that contributes to Env incorporation into virions, but demonstrations of direct MA-CT interactions have proven more difficult. In direct binding assays, we show here that MA binds to Env CTs. Using MA mutants, matrix-capsid (MACA) proteins, and MA proteins incubated in the presence of inositol polyphosphate, we show a correlation between MA trimerization and CT binding. RNA ligands with high affinities for MA reduced MA-CT binding levels, suggesting that MA-RNA binding interferes with trimerization and/or directly or indirectly blocks MA-CT binding. Rough-mapping studies indicate that C-terminal CT helices are involved in MA binding and are in agreement with cell culture studies with replication-competent viruses. Our results support a model in which full-length HIV-1 Env trimers are captured in assembling PrGag lattices by virtue of their binding to MA trimers.IMPORTANCE The mechanism by which HIV-1 envelope (Env) protein trimers assemble into virus particles is poorly understood but involves an interaction between Env cytoplasmic tails (CTs) and the matrix (MA) domain of the structural precursor Gag (PrGag) proteins. We show here that direct binding of MA to Env CTs correlates with MA trimerization, suggesting models where MA lattices regulate CT interactions and/or MA-CT trimer-trimer associations increase the avidity of MA-CT binding. We also show that MA binding to RNA ligands impairs MA-CT binding, potentially by interfering with MA trimerization and/or directly or allosterically blocking MA-CT binding sites. Rough mapping implicated CT C-terminal helices in MA binding, in agreement with cell culture studies on MA-CT interactions. Our results indicate that targeting HIV-1 MA-CT interactions may be a promising avenue for antiviral therapy.
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- Ayna Alfadhli
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Obr M, Schur FKM. Structural analysis of pleomorphic and asymmetric viruses using cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging. Adv Virus Res 2019; 105:117-159. [PMID: 31522703 DOI: 10.1016/bs.aivir.2019.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Describing the protein interactions that form pleomorphic and asymmetric viruses represents a considerable challenge to most structural biology techniques, including X-ray crystallography and single particle cryo-electron microscopy. Obtaining a detailed understanding of these interactions is nevertheless important, considering the number of relevant human pathogens that do not follow strict icosahedral or helical symmetry. Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging methods provide structural insights into complex biological environments and are well suited to go beyond structures of perfectly symmetric viruses. This chapter discusses recent developments showing that cryo-ET and subtomogram averaging can provide high-resolution insights into hitherto unknown structural features of pleomorphic and asymmetric virus particles. It also describes how these methods have significantly added to our understanding of retrovirus capsid assemblies in immature and mature viruses. Additional examples of irregular viruses and their associated proteins, whose structures have been studied via cryo-ET and subtomogram averaging, further support the versatility of these methods.
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- Martin Obr
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Klosterneuburg, Austria.
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Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) imaging has emerged as a powerful tool to probe conformational dynamics of viral proteins, identify novel structural intermediates that are hiding in averaging population-based measurements, permit access to the energetics of transitions and as such to the precise molecular mechanisms of viral replication. One strength of smFRET is the capability of characterizing biological molecules in their fully hydrated/native state, which are not necessarily available to other structural methods. Elegant experimental design for physiologically relevant conditions, such as intact virions, has permitted the detection of previously unknown conformational states of viral glycoproteins, revealed asymmetric intermediates, and allowed access to the real-time imaging of conformational changes during viral fusion. As more laboratories are applying smFRET, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms and the dynamic nature of viral proteins throughout the virus life cycle are predicted to improve and assist the development of novel antiviral therapies and vaccine design.
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- Maolin Lu
- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
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BEES: Bayesian Ensemble Estimation from SAS. Biophys J 2019; 117:399-407. [PMID: 31337549 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Many biomolecular complexes exist in a flexible ensemble of states in solution that is necessary to perform their biological function. Small-angle scattering (SAS) measurements are a popular method for characterizing these flexible molecules because of their relative ease of use and their ability to simultaneously probe the full ensemble of states. However, SAS data is typically low dimensional and difficult to interpret without the assistance of additional structural models. In theory, experimental SAS curves can be reconstituted from a linear combination of theoretical models, although this procedure carries a significant risk of overfitting the inherently low-dimensional SAS data. Previously, we developed a Bayesian-based method for fitting ensembles of model structures to experimental SAS data that rigorously avoids overfitting. However, we have found that these methods can be difficult to incorporate into typical SAS modeling workflows, especially for users that are not experts in computational modeling. To this end, we present the Bayesian Ensemble Estimation from SAS (BEES) program. Two forks of BEES are available, the primary one existing as a module for the SASSIE web server and a developmental version that is a stand-alone Python program. BEES allows users to exhaustively sample ensemble models constructed from a library of theoretical states and to interactively analyze and compare each model's performance. The fitting routine also allows for secondary data sets to be supplied, thereby simultaneously fitting models to both SAS data as well as orthogonal information. The flexible ensemble of K63-linked ubiquitin trimers is presented as an example of BEES' capabilities.
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Qualley DF, Cooper SE, Ross JL, Olson ED, Cantara WA, Musier-Forsyth K. Solution Conformation of Bovine Leukemia Virus Gag Suggests an Elongated Structure. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:1203-1216. [PMID: 30731090 PMCID: PMC6424597 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.01.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a deltaretrovirus that infects domestic cattle. The structural protein Gag, found in all retroviruses, is a polyprotein comprising three major functional domains: matrix (MA), capsid (CA), and nucleocapsid (NC). Previous studies have shown that both mature BLV MA and NC are able to bind to nucleic acids; however, the viral assembly process and packaging of viral genomic RNA requires full-length Gag to produce infectious particles. Compared to lentiviruses, little is known about the structure of the Gag polyprotein of deltaretroviruses. In this work, structural models of full-length BLV Gag and Gag lacking the MA domain were generated based on previous structural data of individual domains, homology modeling, and flexible fitting to SAXS data using molecular dynamics. The models were used in molecular dynamic simulations to determine the relative mobility of the protein backbone. Functional annealing assays revealed the role of MA in the nucleic acid chaperone activity of BLV Gag. Our results show that full-length BLV Gag has an elongated rod-shaped structure that is relatively rigid, with the exception of the linker between the MA and CA domains. Deletion of the MA domain maintains the elongated structure but alters the rate of BLV Gag-facilitated annealing of two complementary nucleic acids. These data are consistent with a role for the MA domain of retroviral Gag proteins in modulating nucleic acid binding and chaperone activity. IMPORTANCE: BLV is a retrovirus that is found worldwide in domestic cattle. Since BLV infection has serious implications for agriculture, and given its similarities to human retroviruses such as HTLV-1, the development of an effective treatment would have numerous benefits. The Gag polyprotein exists in all retroviruses and is a key player in viral assembly. However, the full-length structure of Gag from any virus has yet to be elucidated at high resolution. This study provides structural data for BLV Gag and could be a starting point for modeling Gag-small molecule interactions with the ultimate goal of developing of a new class of pharmaceuticals.
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- Dominic F Qualley
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for One Health Studies, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA 30149, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for One Health Studies, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA 30149, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for One Health Studies, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA 30149, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Yang F, Jiang Z, He Q, Zhang Z, Zhou Y, Karapetrova E, Soucek MD, Foster MD. Following the Morphological Disruption by an Electrolyte of a Buried Interface. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:3555-3564. [PMID: 30592199 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b18009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A challenge of broad interest in both materials science and biology is the study of interfaces that are buried within a structure, particularly multilayer structures. Despite the enormous costs of corrosion and many decades of corrosion research, details of the mechanisms of various sorts of corrosion are still not clear, in part due to the difficulty in interrogating the interface between the corroding metal and an organic coating, which is typically used to mitigate corrosion. Generally, the performance of such coatings is evaluated by visual inspection after exposure or by modeling impedance data, which is a process not straightforwardly connected to physical interface structures. "Rocking-curve" X-ray scattering measurements provide a means of probing such interfaces due to the ability of X-rays to penetrate materials. Here, variations in the morphology of an interface between a protective coating and a metal substrate due to exposure to an electrolyte are derived from analysis of rocking-curve data in conjunction with atomic force microscopy imaging of the outer coating surface. The interfaces of cross-linked epoxy coatings with aluminum are irreversibly changed after 12 h of contact between the electrolyte solution and the face of the coating. The character of this change varies with the molecule used to cross-link the coating. Since X-ray off-specular scattering is sensitive to changes on the nanometer scale, it is also able to register interface degradation on time scales shorter than those probed by many other techniques, potentially expediting the evaluation of coatings for protection against degradation of the interface.
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- Advanced Photon Source , Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Advanced Photon Source , Argonne National Laboratory , Argonne , Illinois 60439 , United States
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IP6 Regulation of HIV Capsid Assembly, Stability, and Uncoating. Viruses 2018; 10:v10110640. [PMID: 30445742 PMCID: PMC6267275 DOI: 10.3390/v10110640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Revised: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The mechanisms that drive formation of the HIV capsid, first as an immature particle and then as a mature protein shell, remain incompletely understood. Recent discoveries of positively-charged rings in the immature and mature protein hexamer subunits that comprise them and their binding to the cellular metabolite inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6) have stimulated exciting new hypotheses. In this paper, we discuss how data from multiple structural and biochemical approaches are revealing potential roles for IP6 in the HIV-1 replication cycle from assembly to uncoating.
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Floderer C, Masson JB, Boilley E, Georgeault S, Merida P, El Beheiry M, Dahan M, Roingeard P, Sibarita JB, Favard C, Muriaux D. Single molecule localisation microscopy reveals how HIV-1 Gag proteins sense membrane virus assembly sites in living host CD4 T cells. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16283. [PMID: 30389967 PMCID: PMC6214999 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34536-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Monitoring virus assembly at the nanoscale in host cells remains a major challenge. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) components are addressed to the plasma membrane where they assemble to form spherical particles of 100 nm in diameter. Interestingly, HIV-1 Gag protein expression alone is sufficient to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) that resemble the immature virus. Here, we monitored VLP formation at the plasma membrane of host CD4+ T cells using a newly developed workflow allowing the analysis of long duration recordings of single-molecule Gag protein localisation and movement. Comparison of Gag assembling platforms in CD4+ T cells expressing wild type or assembly-defective Gag mutant proteins showed that VLP formation lasts roughly 15 minutes with an assembly time of 5 minutes. Trapping energy maps, built from membrane associated Gag protein movements, showed that one third of the assembling energy is due to direct Gag capsid-capsid interaction while the remaining two thirds require the nucleocapsid-RNA interactions. Finally, we show that the viral RNA genome does not increase the attraction of Gag at the membrane towards the assembling site but rather acts as a spatiotemporal coordinator of the membrane assembly process.
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- Charlotte Floderer
- Infectious Disease Research Institute of Montpellier (IRIM), UMR9004 CNRS, University of Montpellier, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France
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- Decision and Bayesian Computation, UMR 3571 CNRS, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
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- Infectious Disease Research Institute of Montpellier (IRIM), UMR9004 CNRS, University of Montpellier, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France
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- INSERM U966 and IBiSA EM Facility, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- Infectious Disease Research Institute of Montpellier (IRIM), UMR9004 CNRS, University of Montpellier, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France
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- Light and Optical Control of Cellular Organization, Curie Institute, UMR, 168 CNRS, Paris, France
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- Light and Optical Control of Cellular Organization, Curie Institute, UMR, 168 CNRS, Paris, France
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- Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297 CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Infectious Disease Research Institute of Montpellier (IRIM), UMR9004 CNRS, University of Montpellier, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France.
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- Infectious Disease Research Institute of Montpellier (IRIM), UMR9004 CNRS, University of Montpellier, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier, France.
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Dubois N, Khoo KK, Ghossein S, Seissler T, Wolff P, McKinstry WJ, Mak J, Paillart JC, Marquet R, Bernacchi S. The C-terminal p6 domain of the HIV-1 Pr55 Gag precursor is required for specific binding to the genomic RNA. RNA Biol 2018; 15:923-936. [PMID: 29954247 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2018.1481696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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The Pr55Gag precursor specifically selects the HIV-1 genomic RNA (gRNA) from a large excess of cellular and partially or fully spliced viral RNAs and drives the virus assembly at the plasma membrane. During these processes, the NC domain of Pr55Gag interacts with the gRNA, while its C-terminal p6 domain binds cellular and viral factors and orchestrates viral particle release. Gag∆p6 is a truncated form of Pr55Gag lacking the p6 domain usually used as a default surrogate for wild type Pr55Gag for in vitro analysis. With recent advance in production of full-length recombinant Pr55Gag, here, we tested whether the p6 domain also contributes to the RNA binding specificity of Pr55Gag by systematically comparing binding of Pr55Gag and Gag∆p6 to a panel of viral and cellular RNAs. Unexpectedly, our fluorescence data reveal that the p6 domain is absolutely required for specific binding of Pr55Gag to the HIV-1 gRNA. Its deletion resulted not only in a decreased affinity for gRNA, but also in an increased affinity for spliced viral and cellular RNAs. In contrast Gag∆p6 displayed a similar affinity for all tested RNAs. Removal of the C-terminal His-tag from Pr55Gag and Gag∆p6 uniformly increased the Kd values of the RNA-protein complexes by ~ 2.5 fold but did not affect the binding specificities of these proteins. Altogether, our results demonstrate a novel role of the p6 domain in the specificity of Pr55Gag-RNA interactions, and strongly suggest that the p6 domain contributes to the discrimination of HIV-1 gRNA from cellular and spliced viral mRNAs, which is necessary for its selective encapsidation.
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- Noé Dubois
- a Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- b School of Medicine , Deakin University , Geelong , Australia.,c CSIRO Manufacturing , Parkville , Australia
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- b School of Medicine , Deakin University , Geelong , Australia.,c CSIRO Manufacturing , Parkville , Australia
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- a Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- a Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France.,d Plateforme protéomique Strasbourg-Esplanade, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- b School of Medicine , Deakin University , Geelong , Australia.,e Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University , Southport , Australia
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- a Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- a Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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- a Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, IBMC, CNRS , Université de Strasbourg , Strasbourg , France
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Bieniasz P, Telesnitsky A. Multiple, Switchable Protein:RNA Interactions Regulate Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Assembly. Annu Rev Virol 2018; 5:165-183. [PMID: 30048218 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-virology-092917-043448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) particle assembly requires several protein:RNA interactions that vary widely in their character, from specific recognition of highly conserved and structured viral RNA elements to less specific interactions with variable RNA sequences. Genetic, biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies have illuminated how virion morphogenesis is accompanied by dramatic changes in the interactions among the protein and RNA virion components. The 5' leader RNA element drives RNA recognition by Gag upon initiation of HIV-1 assembly and can assume variable conformations that influence translation, dimerization, and Gag recognition. As Gag multimerizes on the plasma membrane, forming immature particles, its RNA binding specificity transiently changes, enabling recognition of the A-rich composition of the viral genome. Initiation of assembly may also be regulated by occlusion of the membrane binding surface of Gag by tRNA. Finally, recent work has suggested that RNA interactions with viral enzymes may activate and ensure the accuracy of virion maturation.
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- Paul Bieniasz
- Laboratory of Retrovirology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA;
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA;
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Critical Role of the Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 1 Capsid N-Terminal Domain for Gag-Gag Interactions and Virus Particle Assembly. J Virol 2018; 92:JVI.00333-18. [PMID: 29695435 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00333-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 04/24/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The retroviral Gag protein is the main structural protein responsible for virus particle assembly and release. Like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag, human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) has a structurally conserved capsid (CA) domain, including a β-hairpin turn and a centralized coiled-coil-like structure of six α helices in the CA amino-terminal domain (NTD), as well as four α-helices in the CA carboxy-terminal domain (CTD). CA drives Gag oligomerization, which is critical for both immature Gag lattice formation and particle production. The HIV-1 CA CTD has previously been shown to be a primary determinant for CA-CA interactions, and while both the HTLV-1 CA NTD and CTD have been implicated in Gag-Gag interactions, our recent observations have implicated the HTLV-1 CA NTD as encoding key determinants that dictate particle morphology. Here, we have conducted alanine-scanning mutagenesis in the HTLV-1 CA NTD nucleotide-encoding sequences spanning the loop regions and amino acids at the beginning and ends of α-helices due to their structural dissimilarity from the HIV-1 CA NTD structure. We analyzed both Gag subcellular distribution and efficiency of particle production for these mutants. We discovered several important residues (i.e., M17, Q47/F48, and Y61). Modeling implicated that these residues reside at the dimer interface (i.e., M17 and Y61) or at the trimer interface (i.e., Q47/F48). Taken together, these observations highlight the critical role of the HTLV-1 CA NTD in Gag-Gag interactions and particle assembly, which is, to the best of our knowledge, in contrast to HIV-1 and other retroviruses.IMPORTANCE Retrovirus particle assembly and release from infected cells is driven by the Gag structural protein. Gag-Gag interactions, which form an oligomeric lattice structure at a particle budding site, are essential to the biogenesis of an infectious virus particle. The CA domain of Gag is generally thought to possess the key determinants for Gag-Gag interactions, and the present study has discovered several critical amino acid residues in the CA domain of HTLV-1 Gag, an important cancer-causing human retrovirus, which are distinct from that of HIV-1 as well as other retroviruses studied to date. Altogether, our results provide important new insights into a poorly understood aspect of HTLV-1 replication that significantly enhances our understanding of the molecular nature of Gag-Gag interaction determinants crucial for virus particle assembly.
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Olson ED, Musier-Forsyth K. Retroviral Gag protein-RNA interactions: Implications for specific genomic RNA packaging and virion assembly. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2018; 86:129-139. [PMID: 29580971 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Revised: 03/09/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Retroviral Gag proteins are responsible for coordinating many aspects of virion assembly. Gag possesses two distinct nucleic acid binding domains, matrix (MA) and nucleocapsid (NC). One of the critical functions of Gag is to specifically recognize, bind, and package the retroviral genomic RNA (gRNA) into assembling virions. Gag interactions with cellular RNAs have also been shown to regulate aspects of assembly. Recent results have shed light on the role of MA and NC domain interactions with nucleic acids, and how they jointly function to ensure packaging of the retroviral gRNA. Here, we will review the literature regarding RNA interactions with NC, MA, as well as overall mechanisms employed by Gag to interact with RNA. The discussion focuses on human immunodeficiency virus type-1, but other retroviruses will also be discussed. A model is presented combining all of the available data summarizing the various factors and layers of selection Gag employs to ensure specific gRNA packaging and correct virion assembly.
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- Erik D Olson
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
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Kordyukova LV, Shtykova EV, Baratova LA, Svergun DI, Batishchev OV. Matrix proteins of enveloped viruses: a case study of Influenza A virus M1 protein. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2018; 37:671-690. [PMID: 29388479 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2018.1436089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Influenza A virus, a member of the Orthomyxoviridae family of enveloped viruses, is one of the human and animal top killers, and its structure and components are therefore extensively studied during the last decades. The most abundant component, M1 matrix protein, forms a matrix layer (scaffold) under the viral lipid envelope, and the functional roles as well as structural peculiarities of the M1 protein are still under heavy debate. Despite multiple attempts of crystallization, no high resolution structure is available for the full length M1 of Influenza A virus. The likely reason for the difficulties lies in the intrinsic disorder of the M1 C-terminal part preventing diffraction quality crystals to be grown. Alternative structural methods including synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), atomic force microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy/tomography are therefore widely applied to understand the structure of M1, its self-association and interactions with the lipid membrane and the viral nucleocapsid. These methods reveal striking similarities in the behavior of M1 and matrix proteins of other enveloped RNA viruses, with the differences accompanied by the specific features of the viral lifecycles, thus suggesting common interaction principles and, possibly, common evolutional ancestors. The structural information on the Influenza A virus M1 protein obtained to the date strongly suggests that the intrinsic disorder in the C-terminal domain has important functional implications.
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- Larisa V Kordyukova
- a Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , Russian Federation
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- b Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Federal Scientific Research Centre 'Crystallography and Photonics' of Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russian Federation.,c Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics , Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russian Federation
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- a Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University , Moscow , Russian Federation
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- e Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry , Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow , Russian Federation.,f Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , Dolgoprudniy , Russian Federation
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Su CTT, Kwoh CK, Verma CS, Gan SKE. Modeling the full length HIV-1 Gag polyprotein reveals the role of its p6 subunit in viral maturation and the effect of non-cleavage site mutations in protease drug resistance. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2017; 36:4366-4377. [PMID: 29237328 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2017.1417160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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HIV polyprotein Gag is increasingly found to contribute to protease inhibitor resistance. Despite its role in viral maturation and in developing drug resistance, there remain gaps in the knowledge of the role of certain Gag subunits (e.g. p6), and that of non-cleavage mutations in drug resistance. As p6 is flexible, it poses a problem for structural experiments, and is hence often omitted in experimental Gag structural studies. Nonetheless, as p6 is an indispensable component for viral assembly and maturation, we have modeled the full length Gag structure based on several experimentally determined constraints and studied its structural dynamics. Our findings suggest that p6 can mechanistically modulate Gag conformations. In addition, the full length Gag model reveals that allosteric communication between the non-cleavage site mutations and the first Gag cleavage site could possibly result in protease drug resistance, particularly in the absence of mutations in Gag cleavage sites. Our study provides a mechanistic understanding to the structural dynamics of HIV-1 Gag, and also proposes p6 as a possible drug target in anti-HIV therapy.
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- Chinh Tran-To Su
- a Bioinformatics Institute , Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore 138671 , Singapore
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- b School of Computer Science and Engineering , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore 639798 , Singapore
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- a Bioinformatics Institute , Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore 138671 , Singapore
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- a Bioinformatics Institute , Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore 138671 , Singapore.,c p53 Laboratory , Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) , Singapore 138648 , Singapore
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Comas-Garcia M, Datta SA, Baker L, Varma R, Gudla PR, Rein A. Dissection of specific binding of HIV-1 Gag to the 'packaging signal' in viral RNA. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28726630 PMCID: PMC5531834 DOI: 10.7554/elife.27055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Selective packaging of HIV-1 genomic RNA (gRNA) requires the presence of a cis-acting RNA element called the 'packaging signal' (Ψ). However, the mechanism by which Ψ promotes selective packaging of the gRNA is not well understood. We used fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and quenching data to monitor the binding of recombinant HIV-1 Gag protein to Cy5-tagged 190-base RNAs. At physiological ionic strength, Gag binds with very similar, nanomolar affinities to both Ψ-containing and control RNAs. We challenged these interactions by adding excess competing tRNA; introducing mutations in Gag; or raising the ionic strength. These modifications all revealed high specificity for Ψ. This specificity is evidently obscured in physiological salt by non-specific, predominantly electrostatic interactions. This nonspecific activity was attenuated by mutations in the MA, CA, and NC domains, including CA mutations disrupting Gag-Gag interaction. We propose that gRNA is selectively packaged because binding to Ψ nucleates virion assembly with particular efficiency.
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- Mauricio Comas-Garcia
- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
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- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
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- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
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- Optical Microscopy and Analysis Laboratory, Cancer Research Technology Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, United States
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- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
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Ban D, Smith CA, de Groot BL, Griesinger C, Lee D. Recent advances in measuring the kinetics of biomolecules by NMR relaxation dispersion spectroscopy. Arch Biochem Biophys 2017; 628:81-91. [PMID: 28576576 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2017.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Protein function can be modulated or dictated by the amplitude and timescale of biomolecular motion, therefore it is imperative to study protein dynamics. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique capable of studying timescales of motion that range from those faster than molecular reorientation on the picosecond timescale to those that occur in real-time. Across this entire regime, NMR observables can report on the amplitude of atomic motion, and the kinetics of atomic motion can be ascertained with a wide variety of experimental techniques from real-time to milliseconds and several nanoseconds to picoseconds. Still a four orders of magnitude window between several nanoseconds and tens of microseconds has remained elusive. Here, we highlight new relaxation dispersion NMR techniques that serve to cover this "hidden-time" window up to hundreds of nanoseconds that achieve atomic resolution while studying the molecule under physiological conditions.
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- David Ban
- Department of Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, 505 S. Hancock St., Louisville, KY 40202, USA
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- Department for Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen, 37077 Germany; Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen, 37077 Germany
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- Department for Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen, 37077 Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, Göttingen, 37077 Germany
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- Department of Medicine, James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, 505 S. Hancock St., Louisville, KY 40202, USA.
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Combined Monte Carlo/torsion-angle molecular dynamics for ensemble modeling of proteins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates. J Mol Graph Model 2017; 73:179-190. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2017.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2016] [Revised: 01/19/2017] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Todd GC, Duchon A, Inlora J, Olson ED, Musier-Forsyth K, Ono A. Inhibition of HIV-1 Gag-membrane interactions by specific RNAs. RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2017; 23:395-405. [PMID: 27932583 PMCID: PMC5311501 DOI: 10.1261/rna.058453.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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HIV-1 particle assembly, which occurs at the plasma membrane (PM) of cells, is driven by the viral polyprotein Gag. Gag recognizes phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P2], a PM-specific phospholipid, via the highly basic region (HBR) in its N-terminal matrix (MA) domain. The HBR is also known to bind to RNA. We have previously shown, using an in vitro liposome binding assay, that RNA inhibits Gag binding to membranes that lack PI(4,5)P2 If this RNA block is removed by RNase treatment, Gag can bind nonspecifically to other negatively charged membranes. In an effort to identify the RNA species that confer this inhibition of Gag membrane binding, we have tested the impact of purified RNAs on Gag interactions with negatively charged liposomes lacking PI(4,5)P2 We found that some tRNA species and RNAs containing stem-loop 1 of the psi region in the 5' untranslated region of the HIV-1 genome impose inhibition of Gag binding to membranes lacking PI(4,5)P2 In contrast, a specific subset of tRNAs, as well as an RNA sequence previously selected in vitro for MA binding, failed to suppress Gag-membrane interactions. Furthermore, switching the identity of charged residues in the HBR did not diminish the susceptibility of Gag-liposome binding for each of the RNAs tested, while deletion of most of the NC domain abrogates the inhibition of membrane binding mediated by the RNAs that are inhibitory to WT Gag-liposome binding. These results support a model in which NC facilitates binding of RNA to MA and thereby promotes RNA-based inhibition of Gag-membrane binding.
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MESH Headings
- Aptamers, Nucleotide/chemical synthesis
- Aptamers, Nucleotide/pharmacology
- Base Pairing
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Cell Membrane/chemistry
- Cell Membrane/drug effects
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Cloning, Molecular
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Gene Expression
- HIV-1/chemistry
- Humans
- Liposomes/antagonists & inhibitors
- Liposomes/chemistry
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate/chemistry
- Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate/deficiency
- Protein Binding/drug effects
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/pharmacology
- Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae/chemistry
- Static Electricity
- gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/antagonists & inhibitors
- gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/chemistry
- gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/genetics
- gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/metabolism
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- Gabrielle C Todd
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for RNA Biology, and Center for Retrovirus Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Yandrapalli N, Lubart Q, Tanwar HS, Picart C, Mak J, Muriaux D, Favard C. Self assembly of HIV-1 Gag protein on lipid membranes generates PI(4,5)P 2/Cholesterol nanoclusters. Sci Rep 2016; 6:39332. [PMID: 28008947 PMCID: PMC5180241 DOI: 10.1038/srep39332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2016] [Accepted: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The self-assembly of HIV-1 Gag polyprotein at the inner leaflet of the cell host plasma membrane is the key orchestrator of virus assembly. The binding between Gag and the plasma membrane is mediated by specific interaction of the Gag matrix domain and the PI(4,5)P2 lipid (PIP2). It is unknown whether this interaction could lead to local reorganization of the plasma membrane lipids. In this study, using model membranes, we examined the ability of Gag to segregate specific lipids upon self-assembly. We show for the first time that Gag self-assembly is responsible for the formation of PIP2 lipid nanoclusters, enriched in cholesterol but not in sphingomyelin. We also show that Gag mainly partition into liquid-disordered domains of these lipid membranes. Our work strongly suggests that, instead of targeting pre-existing plasma membrane lipid domains, Gag is more prone to generate PIP2/Cholesterol lipid nanodomains at the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane during early events of virus assembly.
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- Naresh Yandrapalli
- CNRS-Université Montpellier, Centre d'études d'agents Pathogenes et de Biotechnologies pour la Santé, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS-Université Grenoble, Institut National de Physique, Grenoble, France
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- CNRS-Université Grenoble, Institut National de Physique, Grenoble, France
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- Deakin University, School of Medicine, Melbourne, Australia
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- CNRS-Université Montpellier, Centre d'études d'agents Pathogenes et de Biotechnologies pour la Santé, Montpellier, France
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- CNRS-Université Montpellier, Centre d'études d'agents Pathogenes et de Biotechnologies pour la Santé, Montpellier, France
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Perkins SJ, Wright DW, Zhang H, Brookes EH, Chen J, Irving TC, Krueger S, Barlow DJ, Edler KJ, Scott DJ, Terrill NJ, King SM, Butler PD, Curtis JE. Atomistic modelling of scattering data in the Collaborative Computational Project for Small Angle Scattering (CCP-SAS). J Appl Crystallogr 2016; 49:1861-1875. [PMID: 27980506 PMCID: PMC5139988 DOI: 10.1107/s160057671601517x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The capabilities of current computer simulations provide a unique opportunity to model small-angle scattering (SAS) data at the atomistic level, and to include other structural constraints ranging from molecular and atomistic energetics to crystallography, electron microscopy and NMR. This extends the capabilities of solution scattering and provides deeper insights into the physics and chemistry of the systems studied. Realizing this potential, however, requires integrating the experimental data with a new generation of modelling software. To achieve this, the CCP-SAS collaboration (http://www.ccpsas.org/) is developing open-source, high-throughput and user-friendly software for the atomistic and coarse-grained molecular modelling of scattering data. Robust state-of-the-art molecular simulation engines and molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo force fields provide constraints to the solution structure inferred from the small-angle scattering data, which incorporates the known physical chemistry of the system. The implementation of this software suite involves a tiered approach in which GenApp provides the deployment infrastructure for running applications on both standard and high-performance computing hardware, and SASSIE provides a workflow framework into which modules can be plugged to prepare structures, carry out simulations, calculate theoretical scattering data and compare results with experimental data. GenApp produces the accessible web-based front end termed SASSIE-web, and GenApp and SASSIE also make community SAS codes available. Applications are illustrated by case studies: (i) inter-domain flexibility in two- to six-domain proteins as exemplified by HIV-1 Gag, MASP and ubiquitin; (ii) the hinge conformation in human IgG2 and IgA1 antibodies; (iii) the complex formed between a hexameric protein Hfq and mRNA; and (iv) synthetic 'bottlebrush' polymers.
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- Stephen J. Perkins
- Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Department of Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, 3101 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60616, USA
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562, USA
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- Pharmacy Department, Franklin-Wilkins Building, King’s College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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- School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, UK
- Research Complex at Harwell, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0FA, UK
- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK
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- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562, USA
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1600, USA
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- Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8562, USA
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Bernacchi S, Abd El-Wahab EW, Dubois N, Hijnen M, Smyth RP, Mak J, Marquet R, Paillart JC. HIV-1 Pr55 Gag binds genomic and spliced RNAs with different affinity and stoichiometry. RNA Biol 2016; 14:90-103. [PMID: 27841704 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2016.1256533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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The HIV-1 Pr55Gag precursor specifically selects genomic RNA (gRNA) from a large variety of cellular and spliced viral RNAs (svRNAs), however the molecular mechanisms of this selective recognition remains poorly understood. To gain better understanding of this process, we analyzed the interactions between Pr55Gag and a large panel of viral RNA (vRNA) fragments encompassing the main packaging signal (Psi) and its flanking regions by fluorescence spectroscopy. We showed that the gRNA harbors a high affinity binding site which is absent from svRNA species, suggesting that this site might be crucial for selecting the HIV-1 genome. Our stoichiometry analysis of protein/RNA complexes revealed that few copies of Pr55Gag specifically associate with the 5' region of the gRNA. Besides, we found that gRNA dimerization significantly impacts Pr55Gag binding, and we confirmed that the internal loop of stem-loop 1 (SL1) in Psi is crucial for specific interaction with Pr55Gag. Our analysis of gRNA fragments of different length supports the existence of a long-range tertiary interaction involving sequences upstream and downstream of the Psi region. This long-range interaction might promote optimal exposure of SL1 for efficient Pr55Gag recognition. Altogether, our results shed light on the molecular mechanisms allowing the specific selection of gRNA by Pr55Gag among a variety of svRNAs, all harboring SL1 in their first common exon.
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- Serena Bernacchi
- a Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN , Strasbourg , France
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- a Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN , Strasbourg , France
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- a Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN , Strasbourg , France
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- b Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia.,c Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Monash University , Clayton , Victoria , Australia
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- a Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN , Strasbourg , France
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- b Centre for Virology, Burnet Institute , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia.,c Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Monash University , Clayton , Victoria , Australia.,d School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University , Geelong , Victoria , Australia.,e Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory , Geelong , Victoria , Australia
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- a Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN , Strasbourg , France
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Rye-McCurdy T, Olson ED, Liu S, Binkley C, Reyes JP, Thompson BR, Flanagan JM, Parent LJ, Musier-Forsyth K. Functional Equivalence of Retroviral MA Domains in Facilitating Psi RNA Binding Specificity by Gag. Viruses 2016; 8:v8090256. [PMID: 27657107 PMCID: PMC5035970 DOI: 10.3390/v8090256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2016] [Revised: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Retroviruses specifically package full-length, dimeric genomic RNA (gRNA) even in the presence of a vast excess of cellular RNA. The “psi” (Ψ) element within the 5′-untranslated region (5′UTR) of gRNA is critical for packaging through interaction with the nucleocapsid (NC) domain of Gag. However, in vitro Gag binding affinity for Ψ versus non-Ψ RNAs is not significantly different. Previous salt-titration binding assays revealed that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag bound to Ψ RNA with high specificity and relatively few charge interactions, whereas binding to non-Ψ RNA was less specific and involved more electrostatic interactions. The NC domain was critical for specific Ψ binding, but surprisingly, a Gag mutant lacking the matrix (MA) domain was less effective at discriminating Ψ from non-Ψ RNA. We now find that Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) Gag also effectively discriminates RSV Ψ from non-Ψ RNA in a MA-dependent manner. Interestingly, Gag chimeras, wherein the HIV-1 and RSV MA domains were swapped, maintained high binding specificity to cognate Ψ RNAs. Using Ψ RNA mutant constructs, determinants responsible for promoting high Gag binding specificity were identified in both systems. Taken together, these studies reveal the functional equivalence of HIV-1 and RSV MA domains in facilitating Ψ RNA selectivity by Gag, as well as Ψ elements that promote this selectivity.
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- Tiffiny Rye-McCurdy
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
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- Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Center for Retroviral Research, and Center for RNA Biology, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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O'Neil L, Andenoro K, Pagano I, Carroll L, Langer L, Dell Z, Perera D, Treece BW, Heinrich F, Lösche M, Nagle JF, Tristram-Nagle S. HIV-1 matrix-31 membrane binding peptide interacts differently with membranes containing PS vs. PI(4,5)P 2. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2016; 1858:3071-3081. [PMID: 27641491 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Revised: 09/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Efficient assembly of HIV-1 at the plasma membrane (PM) of the T-cell specifically requires PI(4,5)P2. It was previously shown that a highly basic region (HBR) of the matrix protein (MA) on the Gag precursor polyprotein Pr55Gag is required for membrane association. MA is N-terminally myristoylated, which enhances its affinity to membranes. In this work we used X-ray scattering and neutron reflectivity to determine how the physical properties and structure of lipid bilayers respond to the addition of binding domain peptides, either in the myristoylated form (MA31myr) or without the myristoyl group (MA31). Neutron reflectivity measurements showed the peptides predominantly located in the hydrocarbon interior. Diffuse X-ray scattering showed differences in membrane properties upon addition of peptides and the direction of the changes depended on lipid composition. The PI(4,5)P2-containing bilayers softened, thinned and became less ordered as peptide concentration increased. In contrast, POPS-containing bilayers with equivalent net charge first stiffened, thickened and became more ordered with increasing peptide concentration. As softening the host cell's PM upon contact with the protein lowers the free energy for membrane restructuring, thereby potentially facilitating budding of viral particles, our results suggest that the role of PI(4,5)P2 in viral assembly goes beyond specific stereochemical membrane binding. These studies reinforce the importance of lipids in virology.
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- Lauren O'Neil
- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States; National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States; National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, United States; Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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- Biological Physics Group, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States.
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Comas-Garcia M, Davis SR, Rein A. On the Selective Packaging of Genomic RNA by HIV-1. Viruses 2016; 8:v8090246. [PMID: 27626441 PMCID: PMC5035960 DOI: 10.3390/v8090246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Revised: 08/16/2016] [Accepted: 08/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Like other retroviruses, human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) selectively packages genomic RNA (gRNA) during virus assembly. However, in the absence of the gRNA, cellular messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are packaged. While the gRNA is selected because of its cis-acting packaging signal, the mechanism of this selection is not understood. The affinity of Gag (the viral structural protein) for cellular RNAs at physiological ionic strength is not much higher than that for the gRNA. However, binding to the gRNA is more salt-resistant, implying that it has a higher non-electrostatic component. We have previously studied the spacer 1 (SP1) region of Gag and showed that it can undergo a concentration-dependent conformational transition. We proposed that this transition represents the first step in assembly, i.e., the conversion of Gag to an assembly-ready state. To explain selective packaging of gRNA, we suggest here that binding of Gag to gRNA, with its high non-electrostatic component, triggers this conversion more readily than binding to other RNAs; thus we predict that a Gag-gRNA complex will nucleate particle assembly more efficiently than other Gag-RNA complexes. New data shows that among cellular mRNAs, those with long 3'-untranslated regions (UTR) are selectively packaged. It seems plausible that the 3'-UTR, a stretch of RNA not occupied by ribosomes, offers a favorable binding site for Gag.
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- Mauricio Comas-Garcia
- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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- Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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- HIV Dynamics and Replication Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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The HIV genome encodes a small number of viral proteins (i.e., 16), invariably establishing cooperative associations among HIV proteins and between HIV and host proteins, to invade host cells and hijack their internal machineries. As a known example, the HIV envelope glycoprotein GP120 is closely associated with GP41 for viral entry. From a genome-wide perspective, a hypothesis can be worked out to determine whether 16 HIV proteins could develop 120 possible pairwise associations either by physical interactions or by functional associations mediated via HIV or host molecules. Here, we present the first systematic review of experimental evidence on HIV genome-wide protein associations using a large body of publications accumulated over the past 3 decades. Of 120 possible pairwise associations between 16 HIV proteins, at least 34 physical interactions and 17 functional associations have been identified. To achieve efficient viral replication and infection, HIV protein associations play essential roles (e.g., cleavage, inhibition, and activation) during the HIV life cycle. In either a dispensable or an indispensable manner, each HIV protein collaborates with another viral protein to accomplish specific activities that precisely take place at the proper stages of the HIV life cycle. In addition, HIV genome-wide protein associations have an impact on anti-HIV inhibitors due to the extensive cross talk between drug-inhibited proteins and other HIV proteins. Overall, this study presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of HIV genome-wide protein associations, highlighting meticulous collaborations between all viral proteins during the HIV life cycle.
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- Guangdi Li
- Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Metabolic Syndrome Research Center, Key Laboratory of Diabetes Immunology, Ministry of Education, National Clinical Research Center for Metabolic Diseases, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Leuven, Belgium
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Hellmund C, Lever AML. Coordination of Genomic RNA Packaging with Viral Assembly in HIV-1. Viruses 2016; 8:E192. [PMID: 27428992 PMCID: PMC4974527 DOI: 10.3390/v8070192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Revised: 07/04/2016] [Accepted: 07/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The tremendous progress made in unraveling the complexities of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication has resulted in a library of drugs to target key aspects of the replication cycle of the virus. Yet, despite this accumulated wealth of knowledge, we still have much to learn about certain viral processes. One of these is virus assembly, where the viral genome and proteins come together to form infectious progeny. Here we review this topic from the perspective of how the route to production of an infectious virion is orchestrated by the viral genome, and we compare and contrast aspects of the assembly mechanisms employed by HIV-1 with those of other RNA viruses.
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- Chris Hellmund
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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HIV Genome-Wide Protein Associations: a Review of 30 Years of Research. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2016; 80:679-731. [PMID: 27357278 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00065-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The HIV genome encodes a small number of viral proteins (i.e., 16), invariably establishing cooperative associations among HIV proteins and between HIV and host proteins, to invade host cells and hijack their internal machineries. As a known example, the HIV envelope glycoprotein GP120 is closely associated with GP41 for viral entry. From a genome-wide perspective, a hypothesis can be worked out to determine whether 16 HIV proteins could develop 120 possible pairwise associations either by physical interactions or by functional associations mediated via HIV or host molecules. Here, we present the first systematic review of experimental evidence on HIV genome-wide protein associations using a large body of publications accumulated over the past 3 decades. Of 120 possible pairwise associations between 16 HIV proteins, at least 34 physical interactions and 17 functional associations have been identified. To achieve efficient viral replication and infection, HIV protein associations play essential roles (e.g., cleavage, inhibition, and activation) during the HIV life cycle. In either a dispensable or an indispensable manner, each HIV protein collaborates with another viral protein to accomplish specific activities that precisely take place at the proper stages of the HIV life cycle. In addition, HIV genome-wide protein associations have an impact on anti-HIV inhibitors due to the extensive cross talk between drug-inhibited proteins and other HIV proteins. Overall, this study presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of HIV genome-wide protein associations, highlighting meticulous collaborations between all viral proteins during the HIV life cycle.
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Glutamic Acid Residues in HIV-1 p6 Regulate Virus Budding and Membrane Association of Gag. Viruses 2016; 8:117. [PMID: 27120610 PMCID: PMC4848609 DOI: 10.3390/v8040117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Revised: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 04/18/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The HIV-1 Gag p6 protein regulates the final abscission step of nascent virions from the cell membrane by the action of its two late (l-) domains, which recruit Tsg101 and ALIX, components of the ESCRT system. Even though p6 consists of only 52 amino acids, it is encoded by one of the most polymorphic regions of the HIV-1 gag gene and undergoes various posttranslational modifications including sumoylation, ubiquitination, and phosphorylation. In addition, it mediates the incorporation of the HIV-1 accessory protein Vpr into budding virions. Despite its small size, p6 exhibits an unusually high charge density. In this study, we show that mutation of the conserved glutamic acids within p6 increases the membrane association of Pr55 Gag followed by enhanced polyubiquitination and MHC-I antigen presentation of Gag-derived epitopes, possibly due to prolonged exposure to membrane bound E3 ligases. The replication capacity of the total glutamic acid mutant E0A was almost completely impaired, which was accompanied by defective virus release that could not be rescued by ALIX overexpression. Altogether, our data indicate that the glutamic acids within p6 contribute to the late steps of viral replication and may contribute to the interaction of Gag with the plasma membrane.
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Mattei S, Schur FK, Briggs JA. Retrovirus maturation-an extraordinary structural transformation. Curr Opin Virol 2016; 18:27-35. [PMID: 27010119 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2016] [Accepted: 02/13/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Retroviruses such as HIV-1 assemble and bud from infected cells in an immature, non-infectious form. Subsequently, a series of proteolytic cleavages catalysed by the viral protease leads to a spectacular structural rearrangement of the viral particle into a mature form that is competent to fuse with and infect a new cell. Maturation involves changes in the structures of protein domains, in the interactions between protein domains, and in the architecture of the viral components that are assembled by the proteins. Tight control of proteolytic cleavages at different sites is required for successful maturation, and the process is a major target of antiretroviral drugs. Here we will describe what is known about the structures of immature and mature retrovirus particles, and about the maturation process by which one transitions into the other. Despite a wealth of available data, fundamental questions about retroviral maturation remain unanswered.
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- Simone Mattei
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Membrane Binding of the Rous Sarcoma Virus Gag Protein Is Cooperative and Dependent on the Spacer Peptide Assembly Domain. J Virol 2015; 90:2473-85. [PMID: 26676779 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02733-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED The principles underlying membrane binding and assembly of retroviral Gag proteins into a lattice are understood. However, little is known about how these processes are related. Using purified Rous sarcoma virus Gag and Gag truncations, we studied the interrelation of Gag-Gag interaction and Gag-membrane interaction. Both by liposome binding and by surface plasmon resonance on a supported bilayer, Gag bound to membranes much more tightly than did matrix (MA), the isolated membrane binding domain. In principle, this difference could be explained either by protein-protein interactions leading to cooperativity in membrane binding or by the simultaneous interaction of the N-terminal MA and the C-terminal nucleocapsid (NC) of Gag with the bilayer, since both are highly basic. However, we found that NC was not required for strong membrane binding. Instead, the spacer peptide assembly domain (SPA), a putative 24-residue helical sequence comprising the 12-residue SP segment of Gag and overlapping the capsid (CA) C terminus and the NC N terminus, was required. SPA is known to be critical for proper assembly of the immature Gag lattice. A single amino acid mutation in SPA that abrogates assembly in vitro dramatically reduced binding of Gag to liposomes. In vivo, plasma membrane localization was dependent on SPA. Disulfide cross-linking based on ectopic Cys residues showed that the contacts between Gag proteins on the membrane are similar to the known contacts in virus-like particles. Taken together, we interpret these results to mean that Gag membrane interaction is cooperative in that it depends on the ability of Gag to multimerize. IMPORTANCE The retroviral structural protein Gag has three major domains. The N-terminal MA domain interacts directly with the plasma membrane (PM) of cells. The central CA domain, together with immediately adjoining sequences, facilitates the assembly of thousands of Gag molecules into a lattice. The C-terminal NC domain interacts with the genome, resulting in packaging of viral RNA. For assembly in vitro with purified Gag, in the absence of membranes, binding of NC to nucleic acid somehow facilitates further Gag-Gag interactions that lead to formation of the Gag lattice. The contributions of MA-mediated membrane binding to virus particle assembly are not well understood. Here, we report that in the absence of nucleic acid, membranes provide a platform that facilitates Gag-Gag interactions. This study demonstrates that the binding of Gag, but not of MA, to membranes is cooperative and identifies SPA as a major factor that controls this cooperativity.
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Hydrodynamic and Membrane Binding Properties of Purified Rous Sarcoma Virus Gag Protein. J Virol 2015; 89:10371-82. [PMID: 26246573 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01628-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
UNLABELLED Previously, no retroviral Gag protein has been highly purified in milligram quantities and in a biologically relevant and active form. We have purified Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) Gag protein and in parallel several truncation mutants of Gag and have studied their biophysical properties and membrane interactions in vitro. RSV Gag is unusual in that it is not naturally myristoylated. From its ability to assemble into virus-like particles in vitro, we infer that RSV Gag is biologically active. By size exclusion chromatography and small-angle X-ray scattering, Gag in solution appears extended and flexible, in contrast to previous reports on unmyristoylated HIV-1 Gag, which is compact. However, by neutron reflectometry measurements of RSV Gag bound to a supported bilayer, the protein appears to adopt a more compact, folded-over conformation. At physiological ionic strength, purified Gag binds strongly to liposomes containing acidic lipids. This interaction is stimulated by physiological levels of phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P2] and by cholesterol. However, unlike HIV-1 Gag, RSV Gag shows no sensitivity to acyl chain saturation. In contrast with full-length RSV Gag, the purified MA domain of Gag binds to liposomes only weakly. Similarly, both an N-terminally truncated version of Gag that is missing the MA domain and a C-terminally truncated version that is missing the NC domain bind only weakly. These results imply that NC contributes to membrane interaction in vitro, either by directly contacting acidic lipids or by promoting Gag multimerization. IMPORTANCE Retroviruses like HIV assemble at and bud from the plasma membrane of cells. Assembly requires the interaction between thousands of Gag molecules to form a lattice. Previous work indicated that lattice formation at the plasma membrane is influenced by the conformation of monomeric HIV. We have extended this work to the more tractable RSV Gag. Our results show that RSV Gag is highly flexible and can adopt a folded-over conformation on a lipid bilayer, implicating both the N and C termini in membrane binding. In addition, binding of Gag to membranes is diminished when either terminal domain is truncated. RSV Gag membrane association is significantly less sensitive than HIV Gag membrane association to lipid acyl chain saturation. These findings shed light on Gag assembly and membrane binding, critical steps in the viral life cycle and an untapped target for antiretroviral drugs.
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Saad JS, Muriaux DM. Editorial: Role of lipids in virus assembly. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:410. [PMID: 25999935 PMCID: PMC4419861 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2015] [Accepted: 04/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jamil S Saad
- Saad Lab, Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Centre D'études D'agents Pathogènes et Biotechnologies Pour la Santé Montpellier, France
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