Fluorescent image analysis of HIV-1 and HIV-2 uncoating kinetics in the presence of old world monkey TRIM5α

PLoS One. 2015 Mar 24;10(3):e0121199. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121199. eCollection 2015.

Abstract

Uncoating of Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2) conical cores is an important early step for establishment of infection. In Old World Monkey (OWM) cells, the TRIM5α cellular factor potently suppresses an early step of infection by HIV-1. Previously, biochemical studies using whole cell lysates of infected cells revealed that OWM TRIM5α accelerates the uncoating of HIV-1, leading to premature reverse transcription. In the present study, we re-evaluated uncoating kinetics of HIV-1 in the presence of OWM TRIM5α by using an in situ uncoating assay, which allowed us to differentiate productive HIV-1 entry from simple (non-productive) endocytosis. Results showed that the uncoating kinetics of HIV-1 was indeed accelerated in the presence of OWM TRIM5α. Furthermore, we adapted an in situ uncoating assay to HIV-2, which showed wide variations in TRIM5α sensitivity among different isolates. HIV-2 isolate GH123, whose infectivity was suppressed by cynomolgus monkey (CM) TRIM5α, showed accelerated uncoating in the presence of CM TRIM5α. In contrast, mutant HIV-2 ASA, whose infectivity was unaltered by CM TRIM5α, showed no change in uncoating kinetics in the presence of CM TRIM5α. These results confirmed and further extended the previous notion that accelerated uncoating is associated with restriction activity of TRIM5α against lentiviruses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antiviral Restriction Factors
  • Carrier Proteins / metabolism
  • Cell Line, Transformed
  • Cercopithecidae / metabolism*
  • Cercopithecidae / virology*
  • Chlorocebus aethiops
  • HIV-1 / physiology*
  • HIV-2 / physiology*
  • HeLa Cells
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Macaca fascicularis
  • Optical Imaging / methods
  • Proteins / metabolism*
  • Proteins / pharmacology
  • Simian Immunodeficiency Virus / physiology
  • Tripartite Motif Proteins
  • Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
  • Virus Uncoating / drug effects
  • Virus Uncoating / physiology*

Substances

  • Antiviral Restriction Factors
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Proteins
  • Tripartite Motif Proteins
  • TRIM5 protein, human
  • TRIM5(alpha) protein, rhesus monkey
  • Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases