Laboratory of retrovirology, University of Québec, 3351 boulevard des Forges, CP500, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada.
Virology. 2010 Jan 20;396(2):272-9. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.10.032. Epub 2009 Nov 13.
Retroviral DNA integration leaves behind a single-strand DNA discontinuity at each virus:host DNA junction. It has long been proposed that cellular proteins detect and repair the integrated DNA and that failure to do so might lead to apoptotic cell death, but their identity remains unknown. PIKK family members ATM, DNA-PKcs and ATR have all been proposed to be important for HIV-1 replication, but these findings turned out to be very controversial. In order to clarify their role in retroviral replication, we analyzed the effect of pharmacological inhibitors and of a dominant-negative version of ATR on the replication of retroviruses in cell lines relevant to HIV-1 infection. Our data show that ATR and probably other PIKKs as well are involved in retroviral replication in some but not all cell lines and that ATR increases the frequency of retroviral transduction by a mechanism other than the enhancement of infected cell survival.
逆转录病毒 DNA 整合会在每个病毒:宿主 DNA 连接处留下一条单链 DNA 不连续性。长期以来,人们一直认为细胞蛋白会检测和修复整合的 DNA,如果不能修复,可能会导致细胞凋亡死亡,但它们的身份仍然未知。PIKK 家族成员 ATM、DNA-PKcs 和 ATR 都被认为对 HIV-1 复制很重要,但这些发现结果却极具争议性。为了阐明它们在逆转录病毒复制中的作用,我们分析了药理学抑制剂和 ATR 的显性失活版本对与 HIV-1 感染相关的细胞系中逆转录病毒复制的影响。我们的数据表明,ATR 以及可能的其他 PIKKs 参与了某些细胞系而非所有细胞系中的逆转录病毒复制,ATR 通过增强受感染细胞存活以外的机制增加了逆转录病毒转导的频率。