HIV-1 promotes ubiquitination of the amyloidogenic C-terminal fragment of APP to support viral replication

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Abstract

HIV-1 replication in macrophages and microglia involves intracellular assembly and budding into modified subsets of multivesicular bodies (MVBs), which support both viral persistence and spread. However, the cellular factors that regulate HIV-1’s vesicular replication remain poorly understood. Recently, amyloid precursor protein (APP) was identified as an inhibitor of HIV-1 replication in macrophages and microglia via an unknown mechanism. Here, we show that entry of HIV-1 Gag into MVBs is blocked by the amyloidogenic C-terminal fragment of APP, “C99”, but not by the non-amyloidogenic product, “C83”. To counter this, Gag promotes multi-site ubiquitination of C99 which controls both exocytic sorting of MVBs and further processing of C99 into toxic amyloids. Processing of C99, entry of Gag into MVBs and release of infectious virus could be suppressed by expressing ubiquitination-defective C99 or by γ-secretase inhibitor treatment, suggesting that APP’s amyloidogenic pathway functions to sense and suppress HIV-1 replication in macrophages and microglia.

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Gu, F., Boisjoli, M., & Naghavi, M. H. (2023). HIV-1 promotes ubiquitination of the amyloidogenic C-terminal fragment of APP to support viral replication. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40000-x

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