Loss of the Brm-Type SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex Is a Strong Barrier to the Tat-Independent Transcriptional Elongation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Transcripts
- 15 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 83 (22), 11569-11580
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.00742-09
Abstract
To elucidate the epigenetic regulation of Tat-independent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transcription following proviral integration, we constructed an HIV type 1 (HIV-1)-based replication-defective viral vector that expresses a reporter green fluorescent protein (GFP) product from its intact long terminal repeat (LTR). We transduced this construct into human tumor cell lines that were either deficient in or competent for the Brm-type SWI/SNF complex. One day after transduction, single cells that expressed GFP were sorted, and the GFP expression profiles originating from each of these clones were analyzed. Unlike clones of the SWI/SNF-competent cell line, which exhibited clear unimodal expression patterns in all cases, many clones originating from Brm-deficient cell lines either showed a broad-range distribution of GFP expression or were fully silenced. The resorting of GFP-negative populations of these isolated clones showed that GFP silencing is either reversible or irreversible depending upon the proviral integration sites. We further observed that even in these silenced clones, proviral gene transcription initiates to accumulate short transcripts of around 60 bases in length, but no elongation occurs. We found that this termination is caused by tightly closed nucleosome-1 (nuc-1) at the 5′ LTR. Also, nuc-1 is remodeled by exogenous Brm in some integrants. From these results, we propose that Brm is required for the occasional transcriptional elongation of the HIV-1 provirus in the absence of Tat. Since the Brm-type SWI/SNF complex is expressed at marginal levels in resting CD4 + T cells and is drastically induced upon CD4 + T-cell activation, we speculate that it plays crucial roles in the early Tat-independent phase of HIV transcription in affected patients.This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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