Gliotoxin, identified from a screen of fungal metabolites, disrupts 7SK snRNP, releases P-TEFb, and reverses HIV-1 latency
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388971%3A_____%2F20%3A00532076" target="_blank" >RIV/61388971:_____/20:00532076 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eaba6617.abstract" target="_blank" >https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eaba6617.abstract</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba6617" target="_blank" >10.1126/sciadv.aba6617</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gliotoxin, identified from a screen of fungal metabolites, disrupts 7SK snRNP, releases P-TEFb, and reverses HIV-1 latency
Original language description
A leading pharmacological strategy toward HIV cure requires ´shock´ or activation of HIV gene expression in latently infected cells with latency reversal agents (LRAs) followed by their subsequent clearance. In a screen for novel LRAs, we used fungal secondary metabolites as a source of bioactive molecules. Using orthogonal mass spectrometry (MS) coupled to latency reversal bioassays, we identified gliotoxin (GTX) as a novel LRA. GTX significantly induced HIV-1 gene expression in latent ex vivo infected primary cells and in CD4(+) T cells from all aviremic HIV-1(+) participants. RNA sequencing identified 7SK RNA, the scaffold of the positive transcription elongation factor b (P-TEFb) inhibitory 7SK small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) complex, to be significantly reduced upon GTX treatment of CD4(+) T cells. GTX directly disrupted 7SK snRNP by targeting La-related protein 7 (LARP7), releasing active P-TEFb, which phosphorylated RNA polymerase II (Pol II) C-terminal domain (CTD), inducing HIV transcription.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1509" target="_blank" >LO1509: Prague infrastructure for structural biology and metabolomics II</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science Advances
ISSN
2375-2548
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
33
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
eaha6617
UT code for WoS article
000560465800017
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85089982892