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DOCN M9610611
TI An autocrine loop of HIV type-1 Tat protein responsible for the improved
survival/proliferation capacity of permanently Tat-transfected cells and
required for optimal HIV-1 LTR transactivating activity.
DT 9601
AU Zauli G; La Placa M; Vignoli M; Re MC; Gibellini D; Furlini G; Milani D;
Marchisio M; Mazzoni M; Capitani S; Institute of Human Anatomy,
University of Ferrara, Italy.
SO J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol. 1995 Nov 1;10(3):306-16.
Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96027798
AB Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transactivating Tat protein
is pivotal to virus replication. Tat's potential effects on HIV-1
pathogenesis, however, go well beyond its role in the virus's life
cycle. Current data indicate that biologically active Tat is released
from HIV-1-infected cells and readily endocytosed and targeted to the
nucleus of nearby, or perhaps distant, cells, where it may exert a
series of pleiotropic effects. This paracrine action has been
extensively investigated, and depending on the amounts of exogenously
added Tat, its effects may extend from the suppression of
immunocompetent cells to transactivation of heterologous genes to the
promotion of growth of Kaposi's sarcoma spindle cells. We have already
observed that various cell lines, either permanently transfected with an
expressive HIV-1 tat gene construct or cultured in the presence of
exogenously added Tat protein, are protected from programmed cell death
after serum withdrawal or other apoptotic stimuli. The present article
shows that various types (lymphoblastoid, epithelial, neuronal) of
permanently tat-transfected cell lines actively release fully bioactive
Tat protein. The addition of anti-Tat antibody to the culture medium
completely abolishes their increased survival/proliferation capacity in
serum-free culture. In these conditions, therefore, the enhanced
survival/proliferation potential of permanently tat-transfected cells
seems entirely dependent on a Tat-protein autocrine loop. The finding
that anti-Tat antibody, added to culture medium, exerts a negative
influence on the expression of a Tat-responsive HIV-1 long terminal
repeat chloramphenicol-acetyltransferase construct, transiently
transfected into permanently tat-transfected cells, suggests that the
Tat autocrine loop may also be required for optimal HIV-1 long terminal
repeat transactivation.
DE Animal Antibodies/PHARMACOLOGY Cell Division/PHYSIOLOGY Cell Line
Cell Survival/PHYSIOLOGY Cells, Cultured Chloramphenicol
Acetyltransferase/ANALYSIS Culture Media, Conditioned Culture Media,
Serum-Free Gene Products, tat/BIOSYNTHESIS/CHEMISTRY/*PHYSIOLOGY
Genes, tat/*GENETICS Human HIV Long Terminal Repeat/*PHYSIOLOGY
HIV-1/*PHYSIOLOGY Rats Receptors, Vitronectin/BIOSYNTHESIS Support,
Non-U.S. Gov't *Trans-Activation (Genetics) Transfection/*GENETICS
Tumor Cells, Cultured Virus Replication JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).