Single-cell glycolytic activity regulates membrane tension and HIV-1 fusion
Open Access
- 21 February 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Pathogens
- Vol. 16 (2), e1008359
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008359
Abstract
There has been resurgence in determining the role of host metabolism in viral infection yet deciphering how the metabolic state of single cells affects viral entry and fusion remains unknown. Here, we have developed a novel assay multiplexing genetically-encoded biosensors with single virus tracking (SVT) to evaluate the influence of global metabolic processes on the success rate of virus entry in single cells. We found that cells with a lower ATP:ADP ratio prior to virus addition were less permissive to virus fusion and infection. These results indicated a relationship between host metabolic state and the likelihood for virus-cell fusion to occur. SVT revealed that HIV-1 virions were arrested at hemifusion in glycolytically-inactive cells. Interestingly, cells acutely treated with glycolysis inhibitor 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) become resistant to virus infection and also display less surface membrane cholesterol. Addition of cholesterol in these in glycolytically-inactive cells rescued the virus entry block at hemifusion and enabled completion of HIV-1 fusion. Further investigation with FRET-based membrane tension and membrane order reporters revealed a link between host cell glycolytic activity and host membrane order and tension. Indeed, cells treated with 2-DG possessed lower plasma membrane lipid order and higher tension values, respectively. Our novel imaging approach that combines lifetime imaging (FLIM) and SVT revealed not only changes in plasma membrane tension at the point of viral fusion, but also that HIV is less likely to enter cells at areas of higher membrane tension. We therefore have identified a connection between host cell glycolytic activity and membrane tension that influences HIV-1 fusion in real-time at the single-virus fusion level in live cells. Deciphering the mechanism of HIV-1 entry and fusion is crucial to understanding the first stages of infection. Although conceptually the first steps of the HIV-1 fusion reaction are relatively well understood, the role of metabolism regulating cholesterol in the plasma membrane and its impact in HIV-1 fusion has not been addressed to date. In this study, we have found a connection between host glycolytic activity and plasma membrane cholesterol concentration. These events in turn affect both membrane tension and membrane order which have a direct impact on the HIV-1 fusion reaction.Keywords
Funding Information
- Wellcome Trust (203141)
- Wellcome Trust (100262Z/12/Z)
- H2020 European Research Council (ERC-2014-AdG-670930)
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