La autoantigen alleviates translational repression by the 5' leader sequence of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 mRNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Svitkin, Y V
RESUMO
The trans-activation response element (TAR) at the 5' end of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) mRNAs forms a stable hairpin structure which is a target for binding of the virally encoded protein Tat, which activates viral gene expression, as well as several cellular factors. TAR is also inhibitory to translation. One of several host factors that binds to TAR RNA is the La autoantigen, an RNA-binding protein which functions in RNA polymerase III transcription termination and has also been implicated in cap-independent internal translation initiation on poliovirus RNA. Here we show that La autoantigen alleviates translational repression by the HIV-1 leader RNA. In rabbit reticulocyte lysate, La relieves the cis-inhibitory effect of the TAR RNA on translation of bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) mRNA but not inhibition that is mediated by an artificial secondary structure element. Canonical translation factors exhibited slight (eIF-2 and GEF) or no (eIF-4A, eIF-4B, eIF-4E, eIF-4F, eIF-3, and eEF-1 alpha) stimulatory activity on translation of TAR-containing CAT mRNA. In addition, we show that poliovirus RNA, in spite of being an inefficient template in rabbit reticulocyte lysate, is a strong competitive inhibitor of translation of TAR-containing CAT mRNA but not CAT mRNA. This inhibition can be relieved by La but not by any other translation factor. The results suggest a possible involvement of the La autoantigen in HIV-1 gene expression.
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