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ArticleJournal of virology1999

Proteolytic activity, the carboxy terminus of Gag, and the primer binding site are not required for Pol incorporation into foamy virus particles.

D N Baldwin, M L Linial

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Article in Journal of virology, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

D N BaldwinDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.
M L Linial
Fred Hutch Cancer Center · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

TRAINING IN MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGYT32GM007270 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI RAIBLE, DAVID W · 1985 to 2020
$21.0M
VIRAL CODED FUNCTIONS IN ROUS SARCOMA VIRUSR01CA018282 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI LINIAL, MAXINE L · 1985 to 2011
$5.0M
NCI NIH HHS CA18282NCI NIH HHS R01 CA018282NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007270NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM07270
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human foamy virus (HFV) is the prototype member of the spumaviruses. While similar in genomic organization to other complex retroviruses, foamy viruses share several features with their more distant relatives, the hepadnaviruses such as human hepatitis B virus (HBV). Both HFV and HBV express their Pol proteins independently from the structural proteins. However unlike HBV, Pol is not required for assembly of HFV core particles or for packaging of viral RNA. These results suggest that the assembly of Pol into HFV particles must occur by a mechanism different from those used by retroviruses and hepadnaviruses. We have examined possible mechanisms for HFV Pol incorporation, including the role of proteolysis in assembly of Pol and the role of initiation of reverse transcription. We have found that proteolytic activity is not required for Pol incorporation. p4 Gag and the residues immediately upstream of the cleavage site in Gag are also not important. Deletion of the primer binding site had no effect on assembly, ruling out early steps of reverse transcription in the process of Pol incorporation.

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RNA, ViralVirus AssemblyBinding SitesGene Products, gagGene Products, polHumansProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalSpumavirusVirionGene Products, gagGene Products, polRNA, Viral

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PMID10400731
PMCPMC112718
OpenAlexW2127224347

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