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ArticleRNA biology2014

Characterization of RNA binding and chaperoning activities of HIV-1 Vif protein. Importance of the C-terminal unstructured tail.

Dona Sleiman, Serena Bernacchi, Santiago Xavier Guerrero, Franck Brachet, Valéry Larue, Jean-Christophe Paillart, Carine Tisne

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Article in RNA biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Dona Sleiman
Serena Bernacchi
Santiago Xavier Guerrero
Franck Brachet
Valéry Larue
Jean-Christophe Paillart
Carine Tisne
Laboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques · FRSorbonne Paris Cité · FRUniversité de Strasbourg · FRInstitut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The viral infectivity factor (Vif) is essential for the productive infection and dissemination of HIV-1 in non-permissive cells, containing the cellular anti-HIV defense cytosine deaminases APOBEC3 (A3G and A3F). Vif neutralizes the antiviral activities of the APOBEC3G/F by diverse mechanisms including their degradation through the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway and their translational inhibition. In addition, Vif appears to be an active partner of the late steps of viral replication by interacting with Pr55(Gag), reverse transcriptase and genomic RNA. Here, we expressed and purified full-length and truncated Vif proteins, and analyzed their RNA binding and chaperone properties. First, we showed by CD and NMR spectroscopies that the N-terminal domain of Vif is highly structured in solution, whereas the C-terminal domain remains mainly unfolded. Both domains exhibited substantial RNA binding capacities with dissociation constants in the nanomolar range, whereas the basic unfolded C-terminal domain of Vif was responsible in part for its RNA chaperone activity. Second, we showed by NMR chemical shift mapping that Vif and NCp7 share the same binding sites on tRNA(Lys) 3, the primer of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. Finally, our results indicate that Vif has potent RNA chaperone activity and provide direct evidence for an important role of the unstructured C-terminal domain of Vif in this capacity.

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Binding SitesCircular Dichroismgag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusHIV-1Molecular ChaperonesNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProtein BindingProtein Structure, SecondaryRNA, Transfervif Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virusgag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusMolecular ChaperonesNCP7 protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1RNA, Transfervif Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virusvif protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1HIVnucleocapsidRNA chaperoneunstructured domainVif

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PMID25144404
PMCPMC4179964
OpenAlexW2326251330

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