Protein Kinase Cθ Is a Specific Target for Inhibition of the HIV Type 1 Replication in CD4+ T Lymphocytes
Protein Kinase Cθ Is a Specific Target for Inhibition of the HIV Type 1 Replication in CD4+ T Lymphocytes
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DOI:
10.1074/jbc.m110.210443
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发表时间:
2011-08-05
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Coiras, Mayte
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作者:
Rosa Lopez-Huertas, Maria;Mateos, Elena;Coiras, Mayte
Integration of HIV-1 genome in CD4(+) T cells produces latent reservoirs with long half-life that impedes the eradication of the infection. Control of viral replication is essential to reduce the size of latent reservoirs, mainly during primary infection when HIV-1 infects CD4(+) T cells massively. The addition of immunosuppressive agents to highly active antiretroviral therapy during primary infection would suppress HIV-1 replication by limiting T cell activation, but these agents show potential risk for causing lymphoproliferative disorders. Selective inhibition of PKC theta, crucial for T cell function, would limit T cell activation and HIV-1 replication without causing general immunosuppression due to PKC theta being mostly expressed in T cells. Accordingly, the effect of rottlerin, a dose-dependent PKC theta inhibitor, on HIV-1 replication was analyzed in T cells. Rottlerin was able to reduce HIV-1 replication more than 20-fold in MT-2 (IC50 = 5.2 mu M) and Jurkat (IC50 = 2.2 mu M) cells and more than 4-fold in peripheral blood lymphocytes (IC50 = 4.4 mu M). Selective inhibition of PKC theta, but not PKC delta or -zeta, was observed at