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RNA
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 914-927Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1261/rna.829208
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AIDS; HIV-1; UPF1; RNA stability
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The HIV-1 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) contains the major structural protein, pr55 Gag, viral genomic RNA, as well as the host protein, Staufen1. In this report, we show that the nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) factor UPF1 is also a component of the HIV-1 RNP. We investigated the role of UPF1 in HIV-1-expressing cells. Depletion of UPF1 by siRNA resulted in a dramatic reduction in steady-state HIV-1 RNA and pr55 Gag. Pr55 Gag synthesis, but not the cognate genomic RNA, was efficiently rescued by expression of an siRNA-insensitive UPF1, demonstrating that UPF1 positively influences HIV-1 RNA translatability. Conversely, overexpression of UPF1 led to a dramatic up-regulation of HIV-1 expression at the RNA and protein synthesis levels. The effects of UPF1 on HIV-1 RNA stability were observed in the nucleus and cytoplasm and required ongoing translation. We also demonstrate that the effects exerted by UPF1 on HIV-1 expression were dependent on its ATPase activity, but were separable from its role in NMD and did not require interaction with UPF2.
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