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ReviewWorld journal of biological chemistry2017

Retroviral integrase protein and intasome nucleoprotein complex structures.

Julia Grawenhoff, Alan N Engelman

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Review in World journal of biological chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The STAT Signaling Pathway in HIV-1 Infection: Roles and Dysregulation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  6. Foamy Virus Integrase in Development of Viral Vector for Gene Therapy.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2020
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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.

Julia GrawenhoffJulia Grawenhoff, Alan N Engelman, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, United States.
Alan N EngelmanJulia Grawenhoff, Alan N Engelman, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, United States.
Creative Research Enterprises (United States) · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Integrase Structural VirologyR01AI070042 · NIAID · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI ENGELMAN, ALAN N. · 2006 to 2020
$7.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI070042
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retroviral replication proceeds through the integration of a DNA copy of the viral RNA genome into the host cellular genome, a process that is mediated by the viral integrase (IN) protein. IN catalyzes two distinct chemical reactions: 3'-processing, whereby the viral DNA is recessed by a di- or trinucleotide at its 3'-ends, and strand transfer, in which the processed viral DNA ends are inserted into host chromosomal DNA. Although IN has been studied as a recombinant protein since the 1980s, detailed structural understanding of its catalytic functions awaited high resolution structures of functional IN-DNA complexes or intasomes, initially obtained in 2010 for the spumavirus prototype foamy virus (PFV). Since then, two additional retroviral intasome structures, from the α-retrovirus Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) and β-retrovirus mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV), have emerged. Here, we briefly review the history of IN structural biology prior to the intasome era, and then compare the intasome structures of PFV, MMTV and RSV in detail. Whereas the PFV intasome is characterized by a tetrameric assembly of IN around the viral DNA ends, the newer structures harbor octameric IN assemblies. Although the higher order architectures of MMTV and RSV intasomes differ from that of the PFV intasome, they possess remarkably similar intasomal core structures. Thus, retroviral integration machineries have adapted evolutionarily to utilize disparate IN elements to construct convergent intasome core structures for catalytic function.

Indexed as

3-dimensional structureDNA integrationHuman immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndromeIntasomeIntegraseMouse mammary tumor virusPrototype foamy virusRetrovirusRous sarcoma virus

Identifiers

PMID28289517
PMCPMC5329712
OpenAlexW2589508919

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