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ArticleMolecular and cellular biology2001

Asymmetric processing of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 cDNA in vivo: implications for functional end coupling during the chemical steps of DNA transposition.

H Chen, A Engelman

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Article in Molecular and cellular biology, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

H ChenDepartment of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
A Engelman
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Biochemical Mechanism of HIV DNA IntegrationR37AI039394 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI Alan N. Engelman · 2010 to 2026
$10.2M
BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISM OF HIV DNA INTEGRATIONR01AI039394 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI ENGELMAN, ALAN N. · 1996 to 2009
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS AI39394NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI039394NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI039394
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retroviral integration, like all forms of DNA transposition, proceeds through a series of DNA cutting and joining reactions. During transposition, the 3' ends of linear transposon or donor DNA are joined to the 5' phosphates of a double-stranded cut in target DNA. Single-end transposition must be avoided in vivo because such aberrant DNA products would be unstable and the transposon would therefore risk being lost from the cell. To avoid suicidal single-end integration, transposons link the activity of their transposase protein to the combined functionalities of both donor DNA ends. Although previous work suggested that this critical coupling between transposase activity and DNA ends occurred before the initial hydrolysis step of retroviral integration, work in the related Tn10 and V(D)J recombination systems had shown that end coupling regulated transposase activity after the initial hydrolysis step of DNA transposition. Here, we show that integrase efficiently hydrolyzed just the wild-type end of two different single-end mutants of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in vivo, which, in contrast to previous results, proves that two functional DNA ends are not required to activate integrase's initial hydrolysis activity. Furthermore, despite containing bound protein at their processed DNA ends, these mutant viruses did not efficiently integrate their singly cleaved wild-type end into target DNA in vitro. By comparing our results to those of related DNA recombination systems, we propose the universal model that end coupling regulates transposase activity after the first chemical step of DNA transposition.

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Recombination, GeneticBase SequenceBlotting, WesternDNADNA, ComplementaryDNA Transposable ElementsDNA, ViralHIV-1Models, GeneticMolecular Sequence DataPlasmidsPolymerase Chain ReactionSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidTransposasesDNADNA, ComplementaryDNA Transposable ElementsDNA, ViralTransposases

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PMID11564861
PMCPMC99854
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