Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

TASOR epigenetic repressor cooperates with a CNOT1 RNA degradation pathway to repress HIV

  • Roy Matkovic,
  • Marina Morel,
  • Sophie Lanciano,
  • Pauline Larrous,
  • Benjamin Martin,
  • Fabienne Bejjani,
  • Virginie Vauthier,
  • Maike M. K. Hansen,
  • Stéphane Emiliani,
  • Gael Cristofari,
  • Sarah Gallois-Montbrun,
  • Florence Margottin-Goguet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27650-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The human silencing hub (HUSH) complex, which includes TASOR, deposits repressive marks on HIV proviruses, resulting in gene repression. Here, Matkovic et al. show that TASOR interacts with RNA Polymerase II, predominantly under its elongating state, and RNA degradation proteins to repress HIV provirus expression.