Role of HIV Vpr as a regulator of apoptosis and an effector on bystander cells
- Authors
- Moon, HS[Moon, HS]; Yang, JS[Yang, JS]
- Issue Date
- 28-Feb-2006
- Publisher
- SPRINGER SINGAPORE PTE LTD
- Keywords
- apoptosis; bystander cells; human immunodeficiency; virus; mitochondria; Vpr
- Citation
- MOLECULES AND CELLS, v.21, no.1, pp.7 - 20
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- MOLECULES AND CELLS
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 7
- End Page
- 20
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/87610
- ISSN
- 1016-8478
- Abstract
- The major event in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection is the death of many cells related to host immune response. The demise of these cells is normally explained by cell suicide mechanism, apoptosis. Interestingly, the decrease in the number of immune cells, such as non-CD4+ cells as well as CD4+ T cells, in HIV infection usually occurs in uninfected bystander cells, not in directly infected cells. It has, therefore, been suggested that several soluble factors, including viral protein R (Vpr), are released from the infected cells and induce the death of bystander cells. Some studies show that Vpr interacts directly with adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT) to induce mitochondrial membrane permeabilization (MMP). The MMP results in release of some apoptogenic factors such as cytochrome-c (cyt-c) and apoptosis-inducing factor (AIF). Vpr also has indirect effect on mitochondria through enhancing the level of caspase-9 transcription and suppressing nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B). The involvement of p53 in Vpr-induced apoptosis remains to be studied. On the other hand, low level of Vpr expression has anti-apoptotic effect, whereas it's high level of expression induces apoptosis. Extracellular Vpr also exhibits cytotoxicity to uninfected bystander cells through apoptotic or necrotic mechanism. The facts that Vpr has cytotoxic effect on both infected cells and bystander cells, and that it exhibits both pro- and anti-apoptotic activity may explain its role in viral survival and disease progression.
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