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JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY
卷 69, 期 2, 页码 404-415出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt348
关键词
HIV-1; small interfering RNA; transcriptional gene silencing; epigenetics; RNAi
资金
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India [BT/01/COE/05/13, BT/PR13733/AGR/36/667/2010]
- AIIMS Intramural Research Grant [A-061/2012]
A region in the conserved 5 long terminal repeat (LTR) promoter of the integrated HIV-1C provirus was identified for effective targeting by a short double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to cause heterochromatization leading to a long-lasting decrease in viral transcription, replication and subsequent productive infection in human host cells. Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) were transfected into siHa cells containing integrated LTR-luciferase reporter constructs and screened for efficiency of inducing transcriptional gene silencing (TGS). TGS was assessed by a dual luciferase assay and real-time PCR. Chromatin modification at the targeted region was also studied. The efficacy of potent siRNA was then checked for effectiveness in TZM-bl cells and human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) infected with HIV-1C virus. Viral Gag-p24 antigen levels were determined by ELISA. One HIV-1C LTR-specific siRNA significantly decreased luciferase activity and its mRNA expression with no such effect on HIV-1B LTR. This siRNA-mediated TGS was induced by histone methylation, which leads to heterochromatization of the targeted LTR region. The same siRNA also substantially suppressed viral replication in TZM-bl cells and human PBMCs infected with various HIV-1C clinical isolates for 3 weeks after a single transfection, even of a strain that had a mismatch in the target region. We have identified a potent dsRNA that causes long-term suppression of HIV-1C virus production in vitro and ex vivo by heritable epigenetic modification at the targeted C-LTR region. This dsRNA has promising therapeutic potential in HIV-1C infection, the clade responsible for more than half of AIDS cases worldwide.
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