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ArticlemBio2016

HIV-1 Gag Blocks Selenite-Induced Stress Granule Assembly by Altering the mRNA Cap-Binding Complex.

Alessandro Cinti, Valerie Le Sage, Marwan Ghanem, Andrew J Mouland

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Article in mBio, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alessandro CintiHIV-1 RNA Trafficking Laboratory, Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Valerie Le SageHIV-1 RNA Trafficking Laboratory, Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Marwan GhanemHIV-1 RNA Trafficking Laboratory, Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Andrew J MoulandHIV-1 RNA Trafficking Laboratory, Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada andrew.mouland@mcgill.ca.
Jewish General Hospital · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-38111Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-56974
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

unlabelledStress granules (SGs) are dynamic accumulations of stalled preinitiation complexes and translational machinery that assemble under stressful conditions. Sodium selenite (Se) induces the assembly of noncanonical type II SGs that differ in morphology, composition, and mechanism of assembly from canonical SGs. Se inhibits translation initiation by altering the cap-binding activity of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E)-binding protein 1 (4EBP1). In this work, we show that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag is able to block the assembly of type II noncanonical SGs to facilitate continued Gag protein synthesis. We demonstrate that expression of Gag reduces the amount of hypophosphorylated 4EBP1 associated with the 5' cap potentially through an interaction with its target, eIF4E. These results suggest that the assembly of SGs is an important host antiviral defense that HIV-1 has evolved for inhibition through several distinct mechanisms. IMPORTANCE: The antiviral stress response is an important host defense that many viruses, including HIV-1, have evolved to evade. Selenite induces a block in translation and leads to stress granule assembly through the sequestration of eIF4E by binding hypophosphorylated 4EBP1. In this work, we demonstrate that in the face of selenite-induced stress, HIV-1 is able to maintain Gag mRNA translation and to elicit a blockade to selenite-induced stress granule assembly by altering the amount of hypophosphorylated 4EBP1 on the 5' cap.

Indexed as

Host-Pathogen InteractionsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell Cycle ProteinsCell LineCytoplasmic Granulesgag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusHIV-1HumansPhosphoproteinsRNA Cap-Binding ProteinsSelenious AcidAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingCell Cycle ProteinsEIF4EBP1 protein, humangag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusPhosphoproteinsRNA Cap-Binding ProteinsSelenious Acid

Identifiers

PMID27025252
PMCPMC4817256
OpenAlexW2321109448

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