Publication Date:
2011-10-15
Description:
The 5'-leader of the HIV-1 genome regulates multiple functions during viral replication via mechanisms that have yet to be established. We developed a nuclear magnetic resonance approach that enabled direct detection of structural elements within the intact leader (712-nucleotide dimer) that are critical for genome packaging. Residues spanning the gag start codon (AUG) form a hairpin in the monomeric leader and base pair with residues of the unique-5' region (U5) in the dimer. U5:AUG formation promotes dimerization by displacing and exposing a dimer-promoting hairpin and enhances binding by the nucleocapsid (NC) protein, which is the cognate domain of the viral Gag polyprotein that directs packaging. Our findings support a packaging mechanism in which translation, dimerization, NC binding, and packaging are regulated by a common RNA structural switch.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335204/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335204/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lu, Kun -- Heng, Xiao -- Garyu, Lianko -- Monti, Sarah -- Garcia, Eric L -- Kharytonchyk, Siarhei -- Dorjsuren, Bilguujin -- Kulandaivel, Gowry -- Jones, Simonne -- Hiremath, Atheeth -- Divakaruni, Sai Sachin -- LaCotti, Courtney -- Barton, Shawn -- Tummillo, Daniel -- Hosic, Azra -- Edme, Kedy -- Albrecht, Sara -- Telesnitsky, Alice -- Summers, Michael F -- 2T34 GM008663/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042561/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042561-21/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042561-22/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042561-23/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042561-24/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM42561/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R25 GM055036/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R25 GM055036-14/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R25 GM055036-15/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R25 GM055036-16/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R25 GM55036/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- T34 GM008663/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Oct 14;334(6053):242-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1210460.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21998393" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
5' Untranslated Regions
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Base Pairing
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Binding Sites
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Codon, Initiator
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Dimerization
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Genes, gag
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*Genome, Viral
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HIV-1/*genetics/*physiology
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Proteins/metabolism
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Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Nucleocapsid Proteins/metabolism
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Protein Binding
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Protein Biosynthesis
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RNA, Viral/*chemistry/*genetics
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*Virus Assembly
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gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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