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Vpu enhances HIV-1 virus release in the absence of Bst-2 cell surface down-modulation and intracellular depletion.


ABSTRACT: HIV-1 Vpu enhances the release of virions from infected cells. Recent work identified Bst-2/CD317/tetherin as a host factor whose inhibitory activity on viral release is counteracted by Vpu. A current working model proposes that Bst-2 inhibits virus release by tethering viral particles to the cell surface. Here, we analyzed endogenous Bst-2 with respect to its effect on virus release from HeLa cells, T cells, and macrophages. We noted significant cell type-dependent variation in Bst-2 expression. Vpu caused a reduction in Bst-2 expression in transfected HeLa cells and long-term infected macrophages. However, Vpu expression did not result in cell surface down-modulation of Bst-2 or a reduction in intracellular Bst-2 expression in CEMx174 or H9 cells, yet virus replication in these cells was Vpu-responsive. Surprisingly, Bst-2 was undetectable in cell-free virions that were recovered from the surface of HeLa cells by physical shearing, suggesting that a tethering model may not explain all of the functional properties of Bst-2. Taken together we conclude that enhancement of virus release by Vpu does not, at least in CEMx174 and H9 cells, require cell surface down-modulation or intracellular depletion of Bst-2, nor does it entail exclusion of Bst-2 from viral particles.

SUBMITTER: Miyagi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2650357 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Vpu enhances HIV-1 virus release in the absence of Bst-2 cell surface down-modulation and intracellular depletion.

Miyagi Eri E   Andrew Amy J AJ   Kao Sandra S   Strebel Klaus K  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090205 8


HIV-1 Vpu enhances the release of virions from infected cells. Recent work identified Bst-2/CD317/tetherin as a host factor whose inhibitory activity on viral release is counteracted by Vpu. A current working model proposes that Bst-2 inhibits virus release by tethering viral particles to the cell surface. Here, we analyzed endogenous Bst-2 with respect to its effect on virus release from HeLa cells, T cells, and macrophages. We noted significant cell type-dependent variation in Bst-2 expression  ...[more]

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