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Journal of Virology, December 2003, p. 13412-13417, Vol. 77, No. 24
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.24.13412-13417.2003
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 DNA Nuclear Import and Integration Are Mitosis Independent in Cycling Cells
Richard A. Katz,1* James G. Greger,1,2 Pamela Boimel,1 and Anna Marie Skalka1,2
Institute
for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer
Center,1
Graduate Group in Cell and
Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania2
Received 12 June 2003/
Accepted 8 September 2003
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ABSTRACT
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An
essential step in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)
replication is the movement of the viral preintegration complex from
the cytoplasm into the nucleus. The pathway(s) and timing for HIV-1 DNA
nuclear entry in cycling cells have not been established. Here, we show
that if cycling cells are infected before S phase, viral DNA can be
integrated prior to passage of the host DNA replication fork through
the integration site, as indicated by stable inheritance in both
daughter cells. We conclude that efficient nuclear entry can occur
independently of mitotic nuclear disassembly in cycling
cells.
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TEXT
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Integration of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) DNA into host
cell DNA is an essential step in viral replication, as it allows
efficient expression and stable inheritance of the viral DNA (the
provirus) (5,
8). Integration is
catalyzed by the virus-encoded integrase protein (IN), which is
assembled with viral DNA in the "preintegration
complex." HIV-1 (a lentivirus) can infect noncycling cells, and
this requires movement of the preintegration complex into the nucleus.
Although several viral determinants have been implicated in
facilitating nuclear import
(6,
9), the process is poorly
understood. It has generally been assumed that defects in HIV-1 nuclear
import would not be manifested in cycling cells, as access to host DNA
could occur during nuclear disassembly at mitosis (as discussed in
references 1 and
19). To define precisely
the early events in HIV-1 infection, we asked if nuclear import
occurred during interphase or was restricted to the short mitotic
window in cycling cells.
Experimental design: timing of HIV integration in cycling cells as measured by segregation of proviruses to daughter cells.
As an unequivocal indicator of when in
the cell cycle HIV-1 DNA nuclear import and integration occur, we
monitored integration with respect to passage of the host DNA
replication fork through the integrated DNA
(10). If integration
occurs at a site in unreplicated host DNA, the provirus will be
duplicated when that site is replicated during S phase and will be
inherited by both daughter cells after mitosis (symmetric
[SY] segregation) (Fig.
1A). If integration occurs at a site that has already been replicated (e.g.,
in late S, G2, or postmitosis), only one sister chromatid
will carry the provirus and, accordingly, it will be inherited by only
one daughter cell (asymmetric [AS] segregation). We
established an experimental system whereby access to unreplicated host
DNA would require nuclear import during interphase. Segregation was
monitored by following viral green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter
expression during colony outgrowth of singly infected cells (Fig.
1B), as described in
detail below.

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FIG. 1. Experimental
design and interpretation. (A) Diagram showing the outcome of
retroviral DNA integration into unreplicated (top) or replicated host
DNA (bottom) in cells progressing through the cell cycle. Host DNA is
depicted as a single acrocentric chromosome. Integration into
replicated DNA is depicted during S but could occur during
G2 or post-mitosis. If mitosis is required for nuclear entry
and integration, only AS segregation would be observed. See text for a
further description. (B) Experimental design. Mitotic cells
(M) were prepared by shake-off. After entry into
G1, cells were infected with HIV-1, ASV, or MLV GFP vectors.
Pedigrees show outgrowth of the colony after synchronous cell division.
Open and closed circles indicate uninfected and infected cells,
respectively. Diagram shows predicted outcomes if integration occurs in
unreplicated (top) or replicated (bottom) host DNA, resulting in SY or
AS segregation,
respectively.
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Initially, synchronized cells were infected early
in the cell cycle, allowing maximum time for viral reverse
transcription and integration to occur prior to completion of S phase.
G1-synchronized HeLa cells were prepared by mitotic
shake-off. To increase the percentage of mitotic cells, cultures were
treated with nocodazole (16 ng/ml) for 2 to 4 h. Mitotic
cells were released by tapping and collected by centrifugation. After
washing in fresh medium, cells were resuspended and plated (ca. 1
x 103 to 2 x 103 cells per 150 mm
culture dish). Synchronization was monitored in parallel cultures by
FACScan analyses for DNA content (Fig.
2B). Plating efficiency was ca. 30%, and ca. 80% of the plated
cells entered G1 as indicated by the appearance of cell
doublets (Fig. 2A). In
most experiments, G1 cell doublets were marked manually
prior to infection to ensure that all cells observed during GFP readout
had entered G1 at the time of infection. A majority of cell
doublets continued synchronous growth up to the 8- and 16-cell stages.
To achieve this high efficiency of synchronization, we had to test HeLa
cells from several sources. The culture chosen (obtained from Tim Yen,
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa.) showed efficient
synchronous outgrowth from single cells and also produced compact
colonies, which aided in scoring GFP segregation. GFP expression was
typically recorded at 48 to 72 h postinfection. Colonies of 8
cells, and occasionally of 4 and 16 cells, were scored. The majority of
GFP-positive colonies gave informative readout; that is, the cell
number was as expected from synchronous outgrowth. Approximately 10 to
50 GFP-positive colonies were analyzed per experiment, and each point
represents at least three independent experiments. Digital micrographs
were acquired as described previously
(12).

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FIG. 2. Synchronization
of HeLa cells and delineation of S phase. (A) Mitotic HeLa
cells were prepared by brief nocodazole treatment, shake-off, and
replating. Phase-contrast micrographs of cells after replating and
attachment (top, 0.5 h after plating) or after G1
entry (bottom, 3 h after plating) are shown. Different fields
are shown in the two micrographs. Cell doublets that are flat, clearly
indicating G1 entry (e.g., two colonies on the right), were
typically marked prior to infection such that subsequent GFP
segregation could be attributed to infection of synchronized cells.
(B) HeLa cells were prepared by mitotic shake-off as in panel
A and were analyzed for DNA content by FACScan analysis with standard
techniques. Series on the left shows entry into S phase, and series on
the right shows exit from S phase (from separate synchronization
experiments). Time, in hours post-mitotic shake-off, is indicated to
the right of each
graph.
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HIV-1 infection during early G1 results in frequent SY segregation of the provirus to both daughter cells, indicating nuclear import and integration prior to mitosis.
Cultures were infected at 3 h
after G1 entry (Fig.
1B) with a
replication-defective HIV-1 vector encoding the EGFP gene under control
of the CMV-IE promoter-enhancer, pPCW-eGFP
(4). This vector was
prepared by cotransfecting 293T cells with the packaging plasmids
described previously
(16). This HIV-1 vector
encodes the DNA flap, which was shown to be important for nuclear
import (19). The HIV-1
vector packaging system provides Gag and Pol proteins, Vpr, and the
VSV-G surface protein to mediate cellular entry. As the vector genome
is devoid of all replicative genes, no virus spread can occur within
the colony. For preparation of vector stocks, virus-containing cell
supernatants were passed through a 0.45-µm-pore-size filter to
eliminate transfer of GFP-expressing producer cells during the
infection. HeLa cells were infected by exposure to virus for
2 h. To interpret the GFP segregation patterns, it is
important that the primary infected cell contain a single integrated
provirus. Viral vector stocks were therefore diluted to the point where
only 10 to 20% of colonies were GFP positive, corresponding to
an effective multiplicity of infection (MOI) of less than 0.05 to 0.1
(correcting for two cells per colony at the time of infection). By
Poisson distribution analyses, under these conditions the fraction of
cells that experienced two integration events is negligible (0.0045 to
0.0012).
Integration and segregation of proviral DNA were
monitored by following GFP reporter expression in daughters and
granddaughters of the infected cell by using fluorescence microscopy.
At a low MOI, only one of the two G1 cells per doublet will
be infected in the vast majority of colonies (Fig.
1B). The uninfected
bystander cell served as an internal control to monitor synchronous
outgrowth of the colony and to confirm that there is no unusual
cell-to-cell transmission of GFP. Due to outgrowth of one uninfected
and one infected cell, SY provirus segregation would result in
50% GFP-positive cells per colony, while AS segregation would
produce 25% GFP-positive cells (Fig.
1B). Under these
experimental conditions, significant GFP expression was not detected
after infection with an HIV-1 vector carrying an inactivating mutation
in integrase (16) (data
not shown), confirming that the observed GFP segregation required
vector DNA integration. We also confirmed that GFP readout directly
correlated with integrated DNA by first passaging parallel infected
cultures to eliminate unintegrated DNA, followed by sorting of
GFP-positive and -negative cells and measurement of viral DNA by
quantitative real-time PCR (data not shown). As demonstrated below, SY
segregation was dependent on the infection time with respect to S
phase, essentially ruling out the possibility that SY colonies could
result from multiple integration events (i.e., in different
chromosomes).
HIV-1 vector infection at 3 h into
G1 resulted in 64% ± 19% GFP-positive
SY colonies (Fig. 3A and
B). The remaining GFP-positive colonies scored as AS type, as expected
(Fig. 3B). The high
percentage of SY segregation is consistent with efficient integration
into unreplicated host DNA and duplication to both sister chromatids
when the host DNA replication fork passed through the newly integrated
provirus. Integration into unreplicated host DNA requires that nuclear
import of the preintegration complex occur prior to the end of S phase.
We also infected HeLa cells synchronized 3 h post-entry into
G1 with a similar murine leukemia virus (MLV)-based GFP
vector (pLEGFP-C1; BD Biosciences) that was prepared by transfecting
the AmphoPack-293 cell line (BD Biosciences). MLV is believed to be
more dependent on mitosis for nuclear import
(17), and the percentage
of SY segregants was lower, 19% ± 9% (Fig.
3A). However, as described
below, this level of SY segregation is significantly above the
background of the assay. We also note that the infection time (early in
G1) strongly favors detection of mitosis-independent
integration into unreplicated DNA. These results indicate that, under
these conditions, MLV may not be strictly dependent on mitosis for
nuclear entry in cycling cells. Recently, we
(12) and others
(11) have demonstrated
that an alpharetrovirus, avian sarcoma virus (ASV), can infect
noncycling cells, implying the existence of a mitosis-independent
nuclear import pathway for this virus. We found that
early-G1 infection with an ASV-GFP vector
(12) resulted in a lower
percentage of SY segregation (35% ± 7%) than was
observed with the HIV-1 vector. However, the readout may be an
underestimate of SY segregation due to rapid variegation of GFP
expression within a subset of colonies (not apparent with HIV-1 or MLV
vectors), which we confirmed to be due to gene silencing (unpublished
data).

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FIG. 3. Frequency
of SY segregation after infection early in G1. (A)
Percentage of SY GFP colony patterns after infection of HeLa cell
doublets, 3 h into G1 with HIV-1 or MLV GFP
vectors. Standard deviations (error bars) are shown. (B)
Representative patterns of GFP expression after infection of
G1 cell doublets with the HIV-1 and MLV GFP vectors and
subsequent synchronous outgrowth. Examples of AS and SY patterns are
shown.
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The simplest interpretation of the segregation pattern
observed after HIV-1 vector infection predicts that, as more of the
host DNA is replicated, the probability of integration into
unreplicated DNA will decrease. To test this prediction, HeLa cells
were synchronized as described in the Fig.
2 legend and were infected
with the HIV-1 GFP vector at 13 and 16.5 h post-release into
G1. As shown in Fig.
4A, there was a decrease in the percentage of SY colonies after infection
at 13 h (within S phase) compared to 3 h, with a
concomitant increase in AS colonies, and these results support our
interpretations of the segregation patterns. To provide biochemical
support for our interpretations, we measured the timing of integration
with the Alu-PCR method. To facilitate detection, scaled-up
monolayer cultures were infected at a high MOI 3 h
post-release into G1. HIV-1 DNA integration could be
detected prior to the end of S phase, as expected (data not
shown).

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FIG. 4. Effect
of infection time and cell cycle delay on frequencies of SY and AS
segregation. (A) Effect of infection time on frequencies of
SY and AS segregation. Cells were prepared by mitotic shake-off as
described in the legend to Fig.
2 and were infected with
the HIV-1 GFP vector at 13 or 16.5 h post-M phase, as
indicated at the top. As a comparison, data for the 3-h time point are
reproduced from Fig. 3A.
The timing of cell cycle stages (determined in Fig.
2B) is shown below the
graph. Colonies were scored according to SY, AS, or AS* patterns, and
the results are expressed as a percentage of total informative GFP
colonies for each time point. The sum of columns at each time point is
100%. Standard deviations (error bars) are shown for the most
prominent colony type. (B) Effect of cell cycle delay on
frequencies of SY and AS segregation. Diagram of experimental design is
shown. Cells were infected at 3 or 7 h after G1
entry (open arrows) and were treated with aphidicolin (APH) for
18 h and released (filled arrow) or were left untreated as a
control. The transient drug-induced G1/S arrest is indicated
(X). (C) Results of experiment diagrammed in panel B.
Quantitation of SY segregation as a percentage of total of informative
GFP-positive colonies is
shown.
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After infection at 16.5 h into the cell cycle
(late S phase), SY colonies were observed only rarely (Fig.
4A), consistent with the
depletion of unreplicated host DNA sites. This low percentage of SY
colonies establishes the background of the
assay.
Provirus segregation patterns after HIV infection late in the cell cycle suggest that mitosis may cause a delay in integration.
Infection at 16.5 h resulted
in loss of the SY pattern and concomitant increase in the AS pattern
(2/8) as well as a novel 1/8 pattern (marked as AS* in Fig.
4A). We believe that the
AS* pattern is informative, as follows: infection near the end of S
phase (16.5 h) increases the probability that cells will pass through
mitosis (ca. 21 h) prior to viral DNA integration. If mitosis
were the primary route of nuclear entry after infection late in the
cell cycle and if integration occurred during G1 in one of
four daughter cells, only the AS pattern would be expected. The AS*
pattern (1/8) indicates that integration did take place after mitosis
but was delayed, as it must have occurred in a replicated site (i.e.,
after entry into S phase) in the DNA of one of the four daughter cells.
Furthermore, we note that the SY/AS ratio produced from infection at
3 h is similar to the AS/AS* ratio from the 16.5-h infection.
Infection at 16.5 h led therefore to the pattern expected if
the cells had already divided, with one of the four daughters being
infected early in the next G1. The delay in integration
indicated by the AS* pattern is inconsistent with rapid integration
after mitosis but rather suggests a requirement for reestablishment of
an interphase-dependent import pathway after mitosis. We also found
that the overall efficiency of GFP transduction was not enhanced by
infecting just prior to mitosis (i.e., 16.5 h) (data not
shown), implying that mitosis did not promote access to host DNA.
Although other interpretations are possible, these results suggest
that, for HIV-1, nuclear entry during mitosis may not be a significant
pathway and that integration may be tightly coupled with the import
pathways used during interphase or in noncycling cells. We note that
AS* (or AS) segregation could also reflect a delay in integration due
to a requirement for S-phase-specific factors, rather than a delay in
nuclear import.
A transient delay in S-phase entry confirms that SY segregation of proviruses is the result of nuclear import and integration during interphase.
As a further test of these
interpretations, we asked if a block in the cell cycle at the start of
S phase would increase the frequency of SY segregation by
"forcing" integration into unreplicated host DNA. HeLa
cells were synchronized by mitotic shake-off as described in the Fig.
2 legend and were infected
with the HIV-1 GFP vector at 3 h or 7 h into
G1 and then were either treated with aphidicolin (2
µg/ml) or were left untreated as a control (Fig.
4B). The effectiveness of
the aphidicolin-induced G1/S block was confirmed by the
persistence of two-cell colonies compared to the continued cell
division observed in the untreated control cultures. After 18
h of treatment, the aphidicolin was removed, colony outgrowth resumed,
and GFP expression was monitored. In the untreated control, infection
at 3 h resulted primarily in SY segregation (79%) as
expected, and introduction of the transient G1/S arrest
enhanced the percentage of this pattern slightly (90%) (Fig.
4C). In the 7-h untreated
control infection, we observed a reduction in SY colonies relative to
the 3-h infection, as would be predicted from the data in Fig.
4A. Introduction of the
transient G1/S arrest after infection at 7 h led
to a dramatic shift from 25 to 94% SY colonies (Fig.
4C). These results show
that the transient delay in S-phase entry promotes SY segregation, as
would be predicted if SY colonies were produced by integration into
unreplicated host DNA.
Summary and conclusions.
The experiments
described here were designed to measure the timing of HIV-1 DNA
integration with respect to the S phase and mitosis in synchronized,
cycling cells. Typically, retroviral DNA metabolism is monitored
biochemically by using DNA blotting or PCR-based methods. However, it
is clear that such methods vary widely in sensitivity, possibly leading
to significant discrepancies with respect to the timing of HIV-1
integration (18).
Furthermore, a significant portion of HIV-1 DNA does not become
integrated (3,
18) and the rare circular
forms of viral DNA, commonly followed as markers for nuclear entry, are
dead-end products. Here we implemented a system that allowed us to
follow single integration events within synchronized cell populations.
We measured the relative frequencies of integration events that occur
either before (SY segregation), or after (AS segregation), the host DNA
replication fork has passed through the integration site during S
phase. We therefore could monitor the timing of nuclear import of only
those viral DNAs that ultimately become integrated. We confirmed that
SY and AS segregation reflected the timing of nuclear import and
integration, as the SY/AS ratio was affected by the timing of
infection, as well as a delay in S-phase entry (Fig.
4). Our results are
consistent with fairly rapid nuclear import and integration
(3,
18), as infection during
early G1 resulted in a significant percentage of integration
into unreplicated DNA (i.e., during G1 or early S phase),
and this may reflect a tight coupling between nuclear import and
integration. In this regard, our results also provide some evidence
that a mitosis-based pathway is not a significant alternative nuclear
entry route for HIV-1 in cycling cells and that nuclear import and/or
integration may actually be delayed by passage through
mitosis.
It should be noted that the timing of integration
measured here reflects the net efficiency of all upstream steps,
including viral entry, cytoplasmic trafficking, and reverse
transcription. Therefore, the differences in the SY/AS ratio noted
among HIV-1, ASV, and MLV vectors do not necessarily reflect
differences in the efficiencies of nuclear import. Pseudotyping of the
HIV-1 and ASV vectors with the VSV-G and murine amphotropic Env
proteins, respectively, provides unnatural entry routes for these
viruses that may influence the timing of nuclear access. Therefore, our
results formally describe the behavior of these pseudotyped vectors
rather than of the natural viral counterparts. Despite this caveat, our
results indicate that mitosis-independent nuclear import of the HIV-1
preintegration complex is quite efficient in cycling cells.
The
results described here provide important new insights into the
mechanism(s) and timing by which lentiviral DNA gains access to and
integrates in the host nuclear DNA in cycling cells. Previous studies
by Roe et al. (17) and
others (10,
13) have indicated that
the nuclear entry pathway for the prototypic retrovirus MLV, a
gammaretrovirus, is primarily mitosis dependent, with integration of
viral DNA occurring soon after nuclear reassembly. Here we provide
evidence that MLV nuclear entry is not strictly dependent on mitosis in
cycling cells. However, this requirement for mitosis is proposed to
account, in part, for the dependency on cell cycling for efficient
infection by MLV-based vectors. In contrast to MLV, HIV-1 can infect
noncycling cells efficiently. Several viral determinants have been
implicated in promotion of HIV nuclear import, including three viral
proteins (MA, IN, and Vpr), as well as a DNA flap structure
(6,
9,
19). However, roles for
the DNA flap and IN nuclear localization signal (NLS) have recently
been questioned (7,
14,
15). One early report
presented evidence that a mutation in the HIV-1 MA nuclear localization
signal affected replication in noncycling, but not in cycling, cells
(2). Although a role for
this MA NLS has also been controversial, these results have been
interpreted to indicate that, in cycling cells, HIV-1 uses a
mitosis-dependent nuclear import pathway similar to that described for
MLV (discussed in references
1 and
19). Here we show that,
after infection early in the cell cycle, efficient HIV-1 integration
can occur in unreplicated host DNA, implicating a mitosis-independent
pathway in cycling cells. The HIV-1 determinants that are required for
this interphase import pathway remain to be identified. Preliminary
experiments indicate that use of an HIV-1 packaging system deficient in
Vpr, Nef, and Vif results in a ca. 2-fold decrease in SY segregation
(data not shown). Although the determinants remain to be fully
characterized, our results raise the prospect that the HIV-1 nuclear
import pathway may be a rational target for therapeutic intervention in
both noncycling and cycling cells.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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We thank Peter Adams, Vincent Guacci, Bill Mason,
and Tim Yen for critical comments on the manuscript and Sam Litwin (Fox
Chase Cancer Center Biostatistics Facility) for helpful discussions. We
are also grateful to John Kappes for providing the HIV-1 GFP vector and
to Didier Trono for providing the HIV vector packaging
plasmids.
This work was supported by National Institutes of
Health grants AI40385, CA71515, and CA06927 and also by an
appropriation from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The contents
of this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not
necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer
Institute or any other sponsoring
organization.
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FOOTNOTES
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* Corresponding
author. Mailing address: 333 Cottman Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19111-2497.
Phone: (215) 728-3668. Fax: (215) 728-2778. E-mail:
R_Katz{at}fccc.edu. 
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