Repression of the HIV-1 5′ LTR promoter and inhibition of HIV-1 replication by using engineered zinc-finger transcription factors
AUTOR(ES)
Reynolds, Lindsey
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Zinc finger domains are small DNA-binding modules that can be engineered to bind desired target sequences. Functional transcription factors can be made from these DNA-binding modules, by fusion with an appropriate effector domain. In this study, eight three-zinc-finger proteins (ZFPs) that bound HIV-1 sequences in vitro were engineered into transcription repressors by linking them to the Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) repressor domain (KOX1). One protein, ZFP HIVB-KOX, which bound to a 9-bp region overlapping two Sp1 sites, was found to repress a Tat-activated 5′ LTR cellular HIV-reporter assay to almost basal levels. A related six-finger protein, HIVBA′-KOX, was made to target all three Sp1 sites in the 5′ LTR promoter and efficiently inhibited both basal and Tat-activated transcription in unstimulated and mitogen-stimulated T cells. In contrast, a combination of two unlinked three-finger ZFPs, HIVA′-KOX and HIVB-KOX, which bind over the same region of DNA, resulted in less effective repression. Finally, HIVBA′-KOX was tested for its capacity to block viral replication in a cellular infection assay using the HIV-1 HXB2 strain. This ZFP was found to inhibit HIV-1 replication by 75% compared with control constructs, thus demonstrating the potential of this approach for antiviral therapy.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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