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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Variations in the Abortive HIV-1 RNA Hairpin Do Not Impede Viral Sensing and Innate Immune Responses.

Melissa Stunnenberg, John L van Hamme, Atze T Das, Ben Berkhout, Teunis B H Geijtenbeek

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa StunnenbergAmsterdam Institute for Infection & Immunity, Department of Experimental Immunology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
John L van HammeAmsterdam Institute for Infection & Immunity, Department of Experimental Immunology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Atze T DasLaboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam Institute for Infection & Immunity, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ben BerkhoutLaboratory of Experimental Virology, Amsterdam Institute for Infection & Immunity, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Teunis B H GeijtenbeekAmsterdam Institute for Infection & Immunity, Department of Experimental Immunology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
University of Amsterdam · NL

Funding

Aidsfonds P-9906
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The highly conserved trans-acting response element (TAR) present in the RNA genome of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) is a stably folded hairpin structure involved in viral replication. However, TAR is also sensed by viral sensors, leading to antiviral immunity. While high variation in the TAR RNA structure renders the virus replication-incompetent, effects on viral sensing remain unclear. Here, we investigated the role of TAR RNA structure and stability on viral sensing. TAR mutants with deletions in the TAR hairpin that enhanced thermodynamic stability increased antiviral responses. Strikingly, TAR mutants with lower stability due to destabilization of the TAR hairpin also increased antiviral responses without affecting pro-inflammatory responses. Moreover, mutations that affected the TAR RNA sequence also enhanced specific antiviral responses. Our data suggest that mutations in TAR of replication-incompetent viruses can still induce immune responses via viral sensors, hereby underscoring the robustness of HIV-1 RNA sensing mechanisms.

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abortive HIV-1 RNAantiviral immunityhuman immunodeficiency virus 1pattern recognition receptorssequence variationTAR hairpinTAR RNA structurethermodynamic stabilityviral sensing

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PMID34358047
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