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A Replication-Competent HIV Clone Carrying GFP-Env Reveals Rapid Env Recycling at the HIV-1 T Cell Virological Synapse

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VIRUSES-BASEL
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v14010038

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HIV-1; virological synapse; Env; GFP; fluorescence recovery after photobleaching FRAP; Gag; endocytosis

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HIV-1 infection is enhanced by cell-cell adhesions called virological synapses (VS), in which infected and uninfected T cells interact. This study used a replication-competent HIV-1 clone to track the movement of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) within infected cells. The results showed that Env was dynamically exchanged at the VS, while the viral structural protein, Gag, remained immobile. Further experiments revealed that continuous internalization and targeted secretion were involved in the accumulation of Env at the VS and its incorporation into nascent particles.
HIV-1 infection is enhanced by cell-cell adhesions between infected and uninfected T cells called virological synapses (VS). VS are initiated by the interactions of cell-surface HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env) and CD4 on target cells and act as sites of viral assembly and viral transfer between cells. To study the process that recruits and retains HIV-1 Env at the VS, a replication-competent HIV-1 clone carrying an Env-sfGFP fusion protein was designed to enable live tracking of Env within infected cells. Combined use of surface pulse-labeling of Env and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) studies, enabled the visualization of the targeted accumulation and sustained recycling of Env between endocytic compartments (EC) and the VS. We observed dynamic exchange of Env at the VS, while the viral structural protein, Gag, was largely immobile at the VS. The disparate exchange rates of Gag and Env at the synapse support that the trafficking and/or retention of a majority of Env towards the VS is not maintained by entrapment by a Gag lattice or immobilization by binding to CD4 on the target cell. A FRAP study of an Env endocytosis mutant showed that recycling is not required for accumulation at the VS, but is required for the rapid exchange of Env at the VS. We conclude that the mechanism of Env accumulation at the VS and incorporation into nascent particles involves continuous internalization and targeted secretion rather than irreversible interactions with the budding virus, but that this recycling is largely dispensable for VS formation and viral transfer across the VS.

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