Abstract

Cellular ESCRT machinery plays pivotal role in HIV-1 budding and release. Extracellular stimuli that modulate HIV-1 egress are currently unknown. We found that CCL2 induced by HIV-1 clade B (HIV-1B) infection of macrophages enhanced virus production, while CCL2 immuno-depletion reversed this effect. Additionally, HIV-1 clade C (HIV-1C) was refractory to CCL2 levels. We show that CCL2-mediated increase in virus production requires Gag late motif LYPX present in HIV-1B, but absent in HIV-1C, and ALIX protein that recruits ESCRT III complex. CCL2 immuno-depletion sequestered ALIX to F-actin structures, while CCL2 addition mobilized it to cytoplasm facilitating Gag-ALIX binding. The LYPX motif improves virus replication and its absence renders the virus less fit. Interestingly, novel variants of HIV-1C with PYRE/PYKE tetrapeptide insertions in Gag-p6 conferred ALIX binding, CCL2-responsiveness and enhanced virus replication. These results, for the first time, indicate that CCL2 mediates ALIX mobilization from F-actin and enhances HIV-1 release and fitness.

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  1. David O Ajasin

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  2. Vasudev R Rao

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  3. Xuhong Wu

    Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  4. Santhamani Ramasamy

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  5. Mario Pujato

    Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  6. Arthur P Ruiz

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  7. Andras Fiser

    Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  8. Anne R Bresnick

    Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  9. Ganjam V Kalpana

    Department of Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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  10. Vinayaka R Prasad

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, United States
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National Institutes of Health (R37 AI030861)

  • Vinayaka R Prasad

National Institutes of Health (R01 MH083579)

  • Vinayaka R Prasad

National Institutes of Health (R01 GM112520)

  • Ganjam V Kalpana

National Institutes of Health (T32 AI007501)

  • David O Ajasin

National Institutes of Health (F31 AI127295)

  • David O Ajasin

National Institutes of Health (T32 GM007491)

  • Arthur P Ruiz

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. David O Ajasin
  2. Vasudev R Rao
  3. Xuhong Wu
  4. Santhamani Ramasamy
  5. Mario Pujato
  6. Arthur P Ruiz
  7. Andras Fiser
  8. Anne R Bresnick
  9. Ganjam V Kalpana
  10. Vinayaka R Prasad
(2019)
CCL2 mobilizes ALIX to facilitate Gag-p6 mediated HIV-1 virion release
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