Gene silencing in HIV-1 latency by polycomb repressive group

Virology Journal - Tập 8 - Trang 1-7 - 2011
Hyeon Guk Kim1, Kyung-Chang Kim1,2, Tae-Young Roh3,4, Jihwan Park3, Kyung-Min Jung1, Joo-Shil Lee1, Sang-Yun Choi2, Sung Soon Kim1, Byeong-Sun Choi1
1Division of AIDS, Center for Immunology and Pathology, Korea National Institute of Health, Chung-buk, Republic of Korea
2School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
3Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Republic of Korea
4Division of Integrative Biosciences and Biotechnology, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Gyeongbuk, Republic of Korea

Tóm tắt

The persistence of latently Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infected cellular reservoirs in resting CD4+ T cells is a major obstacle to HIV-1 eradication. The detailed mechanism of HIV-1 latency remains unclear. We investigated histones and their post-translational modification associated with HIV-1 latency in novel HIV-1 latently infected cell lines established previously, NCHA cells. To examine histones and their modification linked with HIV-1 latency, the expression profiles for core histone proteins and histone deacetylases (HDACs) in NCHA cells were characterized by RT-PCR, ELISA, and western blot. The levels of histone acetylation and methylation at histone H3 Lys9 (H3K9) and Lys27 (H3K27) in HIV-1 latently infected cells were analyzed by western blot and chromatin immunoprecipitation-sequencing (ChIP-seq). The expression levels for four core histone proteins (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4) and HDACs (HDAC1-8) in NCHA cells were not significantly different from those in their parental cells. Histone H3K9 and H3K27 acetylations in NCHA cells showed no difference in parental and NCHA cells, whereas the levels of di- and tri-methylation were increased in NCHA cells. The expression of EED which is a component of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), and BMI1 and RING2 which are constituents of PRC1, were upregulated in NCHA cells. In addition, more ubiquitylation at histone H2A was detected in NCHA cells. Our results suggest that tri-methylation of histone H3K27 and H2A ubiquitylation via polycomb group protein may play a crucial role in epigenetic silencing accounting for HIV-1 latency in NCHA cells.

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