RESUMEN
Imbalanced protease activity has long been recognized in the progression of disease states such as cancer and inflammation. Serpins, the largest family of endogenous protease inhibitors, target a wide variety of serine and cysteine proteases and play a role in a number of physiological and pathological states. The expression profiles of 20 serpins and 105 serine and cysteine proteases were determined across a panel of normal and diseased human tissues. In general, expression of serpins was highly restricted in both normal and diseased tissues, suggesting defined physiological roles for these protease inhibitors. A high correlation in expression for a particular serpin-protease pair in healthy tissues was often predictive of a biological interaction. The most striking finding was the dramatic change observed in the regulation of expression between proteases and their cognate inhibitors in diseased tissues. The loss of regulated serpin-protease matched expression may underlie the imbalanced protease activity observed in pathological states.
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Cisteína Endopeptidasas/genética , Perfilación de la Expresión Génica/métodos , Regulación Enzimológica de la Expresión Génica , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa/métodos , Serina Endopeptidasas/genética , Serpinas/genética , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Línea Celular , Línea Celular Transformada , Cisteína Endopeptidasas/metabolismo , Progresión de la Enfermedad , Femenino , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Humanos , Masculino , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Neoplasias/genética , Neoplasias/metabolismo , Serina Endopeptidasas/metabolismo , Serpinas/metabolismo , Especificidad de la EspecieRESUMEN
In order to identify cellular genes which interfere with HIV-1 replication in monocyte-derived macrophages (MAC), cells were stimulated with interferon (IFN) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) leading to a pronounced inhibition of HIV-1 infection in these cells, and the resulting gene expression was analyzed. Using the microarray technology we identified a gene named Stimulated Trans-Acting Factor of 50 kDa (Staf50), which is known to repress the activity of the HIV-1 LTR. Analysis of the Staf50 expression by real-time PCR showed an overexpression in IFNalpha (up to 20-fold) and LPS (up to 10-fold)-stimulated MAC as well as in infected cells (up to 3-fold). For stable overexpression, 293 T cells and primary macrophages were transduced with Staf50-IRES-GFP bicistronic pseudotype viruses. After transduction, 293 T CD4/CCR5 and MAC were infected with HIV-1, and virus replication was monitored by p24 ELISA. Overexpression of Staf50 inhibited the HIV-1 infection between 50% and 90% in 293 T CD4/CCR5 as well as in MAC. Our findings suggest that host genetic effects in combination with viral properties determine the susceptibility of an appropriate target cell for HIV-1 infection as well as the replication potential of the virus in the cell resulting in an overall productive infection.