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Lentiviral-Mediated Delivery of Combined HIV-1 Decoy TAR and Vif siRNA as a Single 1RNA Molecule that Cleaves to Inhibit HIV-1 in Transduced Cells 

Authors: Jacob Samson Barnor ab;  Naoko Miyano-Kurosaki c;  Kazuya Yamaguchi a;  Yusuke Abumi a;  Koichi Ishikawa d;  Naoki Yamamoto d; Hiroshi Takaku e
Affiliations:   a Department of Life and Environmental Science, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan
b Department of Virology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Legon-Accra, Ghana
c Department of Life and Environmental Science, Chiba Institute of Technology and High Technology Research Center, Chiba, Japan
d National Institute of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
e High Technology Research Center, Chiba, Japan
DOI: 10.1081/NCN-200059981
Publication Frequency: 12 issues per year
Published in: journal Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, Volume 24, Issue 5 - 7 April 2005 , pages 431 - 434
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Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) silences gene expression via short interfering 21-23 mer double-stranded RNA (siRNA) segments that guide cognate mRNA degradation in a sequence-specific manner. On the other hand, HIV-1 decoy TAR RNA are known to competitively interact with the HIV-1 Tat protein, to downregulate the enhanced gene expression from the long terminal repeat (LTR) promoters. Here we report that a novel expression construct, encoding both HIV-1 decoy TAR and Vif siRNA, as a single RNA substrate, was expressed under the control of the human U6 promoter, and later the TAR and siRNA were cleaved into their respective separate RNA by the endogenous RNase III-like enzyme. Each of the cleaved HIV-1 anti-genes then synergistically contributed toward enhancing the inhibition efficacy (> 80%) of HIV-1 replication in transduced Jurkat cells. These results suggest that targeting HIV-1 mRNA with simultaneously expressed intracellular decoy TAR and Vif-siRNA could lead to an effective gene therapy strategy for the control and management of HIV-AIDS.
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