NMDA receptor activation by HIV-Tat protein is clade dependent
| Autor: | Joseph P. Steiner, Parthasarthy Satishchandra, Wenxue Li, Anita Mahadevan, Susarla K. Shankar, Thomas A. Darden, Avindra Nath, Tanya Malpica-Llanos, Rollie Reid, Yan Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Molecular Amino Acid Motifs Excitotoxicity Biology medicine.disease_cause Transfection Hippocampus Receptors N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Antibodies law.invention Nitric oxide chemistry.chemical_compound law medicine Serine Animals Humans Immunoprecipitation Nitric Oxide Donors Cysteine Clade Cells Cultured Neurons Dose-Response Relationship Drug General Neuroscience Neurotoxicity Valine Articles medicine.disease Embryo Mammalian Virology Rats medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry Gene Expression Regulation Toxicity S-Nitrosoglutathione Recombinant DNA Mutagenesis Site-Directed NMDA receptor tat Gene Products Human Immunodeficiency Virus Neuron Dizocilpine Maleate Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists Protein Binding |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 28(47) |
| ISSN: | 1529-2401 |
| Popis: | In countries infected with HIV clade B, some patients develop a rapidly progressive dementia that if untreated results in death. In regions of the world infected with HIV clade C, only milder forms of cognitive impairment have been recognized. HIV-infected macrophages are the principal mediators of dementia. HIV clade C, however, efficiently infects macrophages and HIV-infected macrophages are found in the brains of clade C-infected patients. HIV-infected macrophages release Tat protein, which may act directly on neurons to cause toxicity. We found that Tat released from Tat-expressing cells was at least 1000-fold more toxic than recombinant Tat protein. We determined whether Tat could interact with NMDA receptors and whether these interactions are clade dependent. It is demonstrated that Tat binds directly to the NMDA receptor leading to excitotoxicity. The Cys 30-Cys 31 motif in Tat is critical for exciting the NMDA receptor and the Cys31Ser mutation found in clade C Tat has a significantly attenuated neurotoxic response. Through molecular modeling and site-directed mutagenesis, we predict that Cys 31 disrupts the disulfide bond between Cys 744 and Cys 798 on the NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor by directly interacting with Cys 744 leading to a free thiol group on Cys 798 and subsequent persistent activation of the NMDA receptor. |
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