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Vekariya U, Saxena R, Singh P, Rawat K, Kumar B, Kumari S, Agnihotri SK, Kaur S, Sachan R, Nazir A, Bhadauria S, Sachdev M, Tripathi RK. HIV-1 Nef-POTEE; A novel interaction modulates macrophage dissemination via mTORC2 signaling pathway. Life Sci 2018; 214:158-166. [PMID: 30391463 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2018.10.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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AIMS Human immunodeficiency virus -1 [HIV-1] Nef, localizes in different cellular compartments and modulates several cellular pathways. Nef promotes virus pathogenicity through alteration in cell surface receptor expression, apoptosis, protein trafficking etc. Nef regulates viral pathogenesis through interaction with different host proteins. Thus, molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis could be deciphered by identifying novel Nef interacting proteins. MAIN METHODS HIV-1 Nef interacting proteins were identified by pull down assay and MALDI-TOF analysis. The interaction was further validated through mammalian two hybrid assay. Functional role of this interaction was identified by immunoprecipitation assay, cell invasion and cell migration studies. Fold Change in mRNA levels of CD163, CD206, CCL17 and CCL18 was analyzed using qPCR. KEY FINDINGS In current study, C. elegans protein ACT4C and its human homolog POTEE was identified to be interacting with Nef. This interaction activates mTORC2 complex, which in-turn activates AKT and PKC-α. The activation of mTORC2 complex was found to be initiated by the interaction of Nef, mTORC2, Rictor to POTEE. The cellular phenotype and functions affected by Nef-POTEE interaction resulted in significant increase in cell invasion and migration of macrophages (MΦ). SIGNIFICANCE MΦ is primary target of HIV-1 infection where HIV-1 replicates and polarizes immunosuppressive M2 phenotype. Combine effect of M2 phenotype and Viral-host protein interactions compromise the MΦ associated physiological functions. Infected MΦ dissemination into other system also leads to HIV-1 induced malignancies. Therefore, targeting POTEE-Nef interaction can lead to formulating better therapeutic strategy against HIV-1.
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- Umeshkumar Vekariya
- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Endocrinology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India
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- Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP, India.
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Anava S, Posner R, Rechavi O. The soft genome. WORM 2015; 3:e989798. [PMID: 26430554 DOI: 10.4161/21624054.2014.989798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2014] [Accepted: 11/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) nematodes transmit small RNAs across generations, a process that enables transgenerational regulation of genes. In contrast to changes to the DNA sequence, transgenerational transmission of small RNA-mediated responses is reversible, and thus enables "soft" or "flexible" inheritance of acquired characteristics. Until very recently only introduction of foreign genetic material (viruses, transposons, transgenes) was shown to directly lead to inheritance of small RNAs. New discoveries however, demonstrate that starvation also triggers inheritance of endogenous small RNAs in C.elegans. Multiple generations of worms inherit starvation-responsive endogenous small RNAs, and starvation also results in heritable extension of the progeny's lifespan. In this Commentary paper we explore the intriguing possibility that large parts of the genome and many additional traits are similarly subjected to heritable small RNA-mediated regulation, and focus on the potential influence of transgenerational RNAi on the worm's physiology. While the universal relevance of this mechanism remains to be discovered, we will examine how the discoveries made in worms already challenge long held dogmas in genetics and evolution.
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- Sarit Anava
- Department of Neurobiology; Wise Faculty of Life Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience; Tel Aviv University ; Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology; Wise Faculty of Life Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience; Tel Aviv University ; Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Neurobiology; Wise Faculty of Life Sciences & Sagol School of Neuroscience; Tel Aviv University ; Tel Aviv, Israel
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Rechavi O. Guest list or black list: heritable small RNAs as immunogenic memories. Trends Cell Biol 2013; 24:212-20. [PMID: 24231398 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2013.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2013] [Revised: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Small RNA-mediated gene silencing plays a pivotal role in genome immunity by recognizing and eliminating viruses and transposons that may otherwise colonize the genome. However, individual genomic parasites are highly diverse and employ multiple immune-evasion techniques, making this silencing challenging. Here I review a new theory proposing that the integrity of the germline is maintained by transgenerationally transmitted RNA 'memories' that record ancestral gene expression patterns and delineate 'self' from 'foreign' sequences. To maintain such recollection, two tactics are employed in parallel: 'black listing' of invading nucleic acids and 'guest listing' of endogenous genes. Studies in several organisms have shown that this memorization is used by the next generation of small RNAs to act as 'inherited vaccines' that attack invading elements or as 'inherited licenses' that permit the transcription of autogenous sequences.
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- Oded Rechavi
- Department of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978; Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel 69978.
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This chapter discusses the astonishing discovery of the Sputnik virophage, a new virus infecting giant viruses of the genera Mimivirus and Mamavirus. While other virophages have also since been described, this chapter focuses mainly on Sputnik, which is the best described. We detail the general properties of the virophage life cycle, as well as its hosts, genomic characteristics, ecology, and origin. In addition to genetic, phylogenetic, and structural evidence, the existence of virophages has deeply altered our view of the tripartite division of life to include the addition of a fourth domain constituted of the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, an important point that is discussed.
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- Christelle Desnues
- URMITE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR IRD 6236, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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Bekal S, Domier LL, Niblack TL, Lambert KN. Discovery and initial analysis of novel viral genomes in the soybean cyst nematode. J Gen Virol 2011; 92:1870-1879. [PMID: 21490246 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.030585-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Nematodes are the most abundant multicellular animals on earth, yet little is known about their natural viral pathogens. To date, only two nematode virus genomes have been reported. Consequently, nematode viruses have been overlooked as important biotic factors in the study of nematode ecology. Here, we show that one plant parasitic nematode species, Heterodera glycines, the soybean cyst nematode (SCN), harbours four different RNA viruses. The nematode virus genomes were discovered in the SCN transcriptome after high-throughput sequencing and assembly. All four viruses have negative-sense RNA genomes, and are distantly related to nyaviruses and bornaviruses, rhabdoviruses, bunyaviruses and tenuiviruses. Some members of these families replicate in and are vectored by insects, and can cause significant diseases in animals and plants. The novel viral sequences were detected in both eggs and the second juvenile stage of SCN, suggesting that these viruses are transmitted vertically. While there was no evidence of integration of viral sequences into the nematode genome, we indeed detected transcripts from these viruses by using quantitative PCR. These data are the first finding of virus genomes in parasitic nematodes. This discovery highlights the need for further exploration for nematode viruses in all tropic groups of these diverse and abundant animals, to determine how the presence of these viruses affects the fitness of the nematode, strategies of viral transmission and mechanisms of viral pathogenesis.
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- Sadia Bekal
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61810, USA
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- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61810, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61810, USA
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- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61810, USA
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Nazir A, Sammi SR, Singh P, Tripathi RK. Trans-cellular introduction of HIV-1 protein Nef induces pathogenic response in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15312. [PMID: 21179446 PMCID: PMC3001482 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2010] [Accepted: 11/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Caenorhabditis elegans has emerged as a very powerful model for studying the host pathogen interactions. Despite the absence of a naturally occurring viral infection for C. elegans, the model is now being exploited experimentally to study the basic aspects of virus-host interplay. The data generated from recent studies suggests that the virus that infects mammalian cells does infect, replicate and accumulate in C. elegans. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We took advantage of the easy-to-achieve protein introduction in C. elegans and employing the methodology, we administered HIV-1 protein Nef into live worms. Nef is known to be an important protein for exacerbating HIV-1 pathogenesis in host by enhancing viral replication. The deletion of nef from the viral genome has been reported to inhibit its replication in the host, thereby leading to delayed pathogenesis. Our studies, employing Nef introduction into C. elegans, led to creation of an in-vivo model that allowed us to study, whether or not, the protein induces effect in the whole organism. We observed a marked lipodystrophy, effect on neuromuscular function, impaired fertility and reduced longevity in the worms exposed to Nef. The observed effects resemble to those observed in Nef transgenic mice and most interestingly the effects also relate to some of the pathogenic aspects exhibited by human AIDS patients. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Our studies underline the importance of this in vivo model for studying the interactions of Nef with host proteins, which could further be used for identifying possible inhibitors of such interactions.
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- Aamir Nazir
- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Molecular Toxicology, Division of Toxicology, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, India
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- Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Molecular Toxicology, Division of Toxicology, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, India
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- Laboratory of Immunotoxicology, Division of Toxicology, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, India
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- Laboratory of Immunotoxicology, Division of Toxicology, Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR), Lucknow, India
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Since the discovery in 1993 of the first small silencing RNA, a dizzying number of small RNA classes have been identified, including microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs). These classes differ in their biogenesis, their modes of target regulation and in the biological pathways they regulate. There is a growing realization that, despite their differences, these distinct small RNA pathways are interconnected, and that small RNA pathways compete and collaborate as they regulate genes and protect the genome from external and internal threats.
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- Megha Ghildiyal
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Lu R, Yigit E, Li WX, Ding SW. An RIG-I-Like RNA helicase mediates antiviral RNAi downstream of viral siRNA biogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Pathog 2009; 5:e1000286. [PMID: 19197349 PMCID: PMC2629121 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2008] [Accepted: 01/05/2009] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Dicer ribonucleases of plants and invertebrate animals including Caenorhabditis elegans recognize and process a viral RNA trigger into virus-derived small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to guide specific viral immunity by Argonaute-dependent RNA interference (RNAi). C. elegans also encodes three Dicer-related helicase (drh) genes closely related to the RIG-I-like RNA helicase receptors which initiate broad-spectrum innate immunity against RNA viruses in mammals. Here we developed a transgenic C. elegans strain that expressed intense green fluorescence from a chromosomally integrated flock house virus replicon only after knockdown or knockout of a gene required for antiviral RNAi. Use of the reporter nematode strain in a feeding RNAi screen identified drh-1 as an essential component of the antiviral RNAi pathway. However, RNAi induced by either exogenous dsRNA or the viral replicon was enhanced in drh-2 mutant nematodes, whereas exogenous RNAi was essentially unaltered in drh-1 mutant nematodes, indicating that exogenous and antiviral RNAi pathways are genetically distinct. Genetic epistatic analysis shows that drh-1 acts downstream of virus sensing and viral siRNA biogenesis to mediate specific antiviral RNAi. Notably, we found that two members of the substantially expanded subfamily of Argonautes specific to C. elegans control parallel antiviral RNAi pathways. These findings demonstrate both conserved and unique strategies of C. elegans in antiviral defense. The genome of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes three Dicer-related helicases (DRHs) highly homologous to the DExD/H box helicase domain found in two distinct families of virus sensors, Dicer ribonucleases and RIG-I-like helicases (RLRs). Dicer initiates the specific, RNAi-mediated viral immunity in plants, fungi and invertebrates by producing virus-derived small interfering RNAs (siRNAs). By contrast, mammalian RLRs trigger interferon production and broad-spectrum viral immunity, although one of the three RLRs may act as both a negative and positive regulator of viral immunity. In this study we developed a transgenic C. elegans strain for high-throughput genetic screens and identified 35 genes including drh-1 that are required for RNAi-mediated viral immunity. Genetic epistatic analyses demonstrate that drh-1 mediates RNAi immunity downstream of the production of viral siRNAs. Notably, we found that drh-2 functions as a negative regulator of the viral immunity. Thus, both nematode DRHs and mammalian RLRs participate in antiviral immune responses. Unlike mammalian RLRs, however, nematode DRH-1 employs an RNAi effector mechanism and is unlikely to be involved in direct virus sensing.
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- Rui Lu
- Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, 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 Plant Pathology & Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America
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