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ArticleJournal of virology2003

Functional replacement of nucleocapsid flanking regions by heterologous counterparts with divergent primary sequences: effects of chimeric nucleocapsid on the retroviral replication cycle.

William Fu, Wei-Shau Hu

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Article in Journal of virology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 14 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.

William FuHIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA.
Wei-Shau Hu
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Understanding Retroviral Gag and RNA Targeting and Virus AssemblyZIABC010506 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HU, WEI-SHAU · 2009 to 2025
$12.1M
Virus Assembly, RNA Packaging, and ReplicationZ01BC010506 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI HU, WEI-SHAU · 2003 to 2008
$819k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleocapsid (NC) proteins in most retroviruses have a well-conserved Cys-His box(es) as well as more divergent flanking regions that are rich in basic residues. Mutations in the flanking regions can affect RNA packaging, virus assembly, and reverse transcription of the viral RNA. To gain a further understanding of the roles of NC flanking regions in the retroviral replication cycle, we generated and characterized chimeric gag-pol expression constructs derived from murine leukemia virus and spleen necrosis virus by replacing an NC flanking region from one virus with the counterpart from the other virus. We found that all four chimeras were able to generate virions, package viral RNA, and complete the viral replication cycle. Two chimeras had mild defects in virus assembly that correlated with a decrease in the isoelectric points of NCs, suggesting that the basic nature of NC is important in virus assembly. This finding indicates that, although the primary sequences of these flanking regions have little homology, the heterologous sequences are functional both as part of the Gag polyprotein and as processed NC protein.

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Virus ReplicationAmino Acid SequenceMolecular Sequence DataNucleocapsidRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRetroviridaeRNA, ViralTranscription, GeneticVirionRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRNA, Viral

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PMID12477882
PMCPMC140598
OpenAlexW2134799210

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