Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and vaccinia virus infection by a dominant negative factor of the interferon regulatory factor family expressed in monocytic cells - PubMed (original) (raw)

Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and vaccinia virus infection by a dominant negative factor of the interferon regulatory factor family expressed in monocytic cells

A M Thornton et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996.

Abstract

ICSBP is a member of the interferon (IFN) regulatory factor (IRF) family that regulates expression of type I interferon (IFN) and IFN-regulated genes. To study the role of the IRF family in viral infection, a cDNA for the DNA-binding domain (DBD) of ICSBP was stably transfected into U937 human monocytic cells. Clones that expressed DBD exhibited a dominant negative phenotype and did not elicit antiviral activity against vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) infection upon IFN treatment. Most notably, cells expressing DBD were refractory to infection by vaccinia virus (VV) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The inhibition of VV infection was attributed to defective virion assembly, and that of HIV-1 to low CD4 expression and inhibition of viral transcription in DBD clones. HIV-1 and VV were found to have sequences in their regulatory regions similar to the IFN-stimulated response element (ISRE) to which IRF family proteins bind. Accordingly, these viral sequences and a cellular ISRE bound a shared factor(s) expressed in U937 cells. These observations suggest a novel host-virus relationship in which the productive infection of some viruses is regulated by the IRF-dependent transcription pathway through the ISRE.

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