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Figure 2Ashows that cyclin D 1 message levels are nearly equivalent between mock ("wild-type")-, control virus-, and HIV-1-infected subconfluent podocytes, although only the HIV-1-infected subconfluent podocytes had elevated levels of cyclin D 1 protein.
We sought to further confirm that HIV-1 expression, and not some idiosyncratic effect of infection, was directly inducing cyclin D 1 expression in infected podocytes.
Murine podocytes immortalized with interferon-inducible temperature-sensitive SV-40 T antigen ( ts -SV-40 T) were isolated and infected with replication incompetent GFP-expressing HIV-1 virus, replication incompetent GFP-expressing single-gene mutants of HIV-1, or replication incompetent GFP-expressing control lentivirus containing GFP but no HIV-1 genes as previously described [ 7 8 ] . In all cases, 70% to 80% of podocytes showed GFP expression 4 days post infection (data not shown).
Moreover, HIV-1-infected podocytes, but not control-infected podocytes, had readily detectable phospho-pRb (Ser780) at the end of the differentiation period, suggesting that the stably up-regulated cyclin D 1 protein remained active in promoting cell-cycle progression (Figure 2B).
[ 11 12 13 14 ] . Kidney transplants between normal and transgenic Tg26 siblings suggested that specific HIV-1 proteins within the kidney, and not circulating factors, transform infected renal epithelium [ 13 ] . Indeed, HIV-1 transgenic mice generated with an HIV-1 proviral construct mutated in the Nef "PXXP" SH3-binding motif for Src-family kinases failed to develop nephropathy [ 31 ] , and a recent in vitro analysis of podocytes infected with single gene mutants of HIV-1 further suggest that Nef plays a central role in causing the proliferative phenotype in HIVAN [ 8 ] . Utilizing these same single gene mutant viruses, we showed here that Nef appears to be play a role in the up-regulation of cyclin D 1 by HIV-1 in vitro . Importantly, these single gene mutants do not exclude the possibility that other HIV-1 gene(s) may cooperate with nef to induce cyclin D1, particularly
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