HIV-1 Nef inhibits ASK1-dependent death signalling providing a potential mechanism for protecting the infected host cell

Romas Geleziunas, Weiduan Xu, Kohsuke Takeda, Hidenori Ichijo and Warner C. Greene ()
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Romas Geleziunas: Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, PO Box 419100
Weiduan Xu: Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, PO Box 419100
Kohsuke Takeda: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Hidenori Ichijo: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Warner C. Greene: Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, PO Box 419100

Nature, 2001, vol. 410, issue 6830, 834-838

Abstract: Abstract In vivo infection of lymphatic tissues by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) leads to enhanced apoptosis, which prominently involves uninfected bystander cells1,2,3. Increased killing of such bystander cells is mediated in part through Nef induction of Fas ligand (FasL) expression4,5,6 on the surface of the virally infected T cells. The subsequent interaction of FasL with Fas (CD95) displayed on neighbouring cells, including HIV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes, may lead to bystander cell killing and thus forms an important mechanism of immune evasion. As HIV-1 also enhances Fas expression on virally infected cells7,8,9, it is unclear how these hosts avoid rapid cell-autonomous apoptosis mediated through cis ligation of Fas by FasL. Here we show that HIV-1 Nef associates with and inhibits apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1), a serine/threonine kinase that forms a common and key signalling intermediate in the Fas and tumour-necrosis factor-α (TNFα) death-signalling pathways10,11,12. The interaction of Nef with ASK1 inhibits both Fas- and TNFα-mediated apoptosis, as well as the activation of the downstream c-Jun amino-terminal kinase. Our findings reveal a strategy by which HIV-1 Nef promotes the killing of bystander cells through the induction of FasL, while simultaneously protecting the HIV-1-infected host cell from these same pro-apoptotic signals through its interference with ASK1 function.

Date: 2001
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