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- Title
Identification of Novel Nucleocapsid Chimeric Proteins Inhibiting HIV-1 Replication.
- Authors
Kim, Hae-In; Kim, Ga-Na; Yu, Kyung-Lee; Park, Seong-Hyun; You, Ji Chang
- Abstract
The positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) is an essential factor that induces transcription elongation and is also negatively regulated by the cellular factor HEXIM1. Previously, the chimeric protein HEXIM1-Tat (HT) was demonstrated to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV)-1 transcription. In this study, we attempted to develop an improved antiviral protein that specifically binds viral RNA (vRNA) by fusing HT to HIV-1 nucleocapsid (NC). Thus, we synthesized NC-HEXIM1-Tat (NHT) and HEXIM1-Tat-NC (HTN). NHT and HTN inhibited virus proliferation more effectively than HT, and they did not attenuate the function of HT. Notably, NHT and HTN inhibited the infectivity of the progeny virus, whereas HT had no such effect. NHT and HTN selectively and effectively interacted with vRNA and inhibited the proper packaging of the HIV-1 genome. Taken together, our results illustrated that the novel NC-fused chimeric proteins NHT and HTN display novel mechanisms of anti-HIV effects by inhibiting both HIV-1 transcription and packaging.
- Subjects
HIV; TRANSCRIPTION factors; CHIMERIC proteins; VIRAL proteins
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 20, p12340
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms232012340