ArticleeLife2018
HIV-1 Env trimer opens through an asymmetric intermediate in which individual protomers adopt distinct conformations.
Article in eLife, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
120 citing papers in PubMed, 164 citations in OpenAlex.
- Article
- Article
- HIV-1 Env Heterogeneity: Cleavage, Trafficking, and Antigenic Consequences for Virions and Infected Cells.Viruses · 2026Review
- Nef and Vpu protect infected cells from ADCP mediated by plasma from people with HIV-1.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- mGem: Opening Env and harnessing NK cell effector functions to eliminate HIV-1-infected cells.mBio · 2026Review
- Conformational landscape of HIV-1 Env from closed to fully open.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Conformational dynamics of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein from CRF01_AE is associated with susceptibility to antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity.Journal of virology · 2026Article
- Structure of HIV-1 Env glycoprotein on virions reveals an alternative fusion subunit organization and native membrane coupling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Bioorthogonal click-chemistry labeling and visualization of dual noncanonical amino acid-incorporated HIV-1 Env on intact virions.Methods in enzymology · 2026Article
- The asymmetric opening of HIV-1 Env by a potent CD4 mimetic enables anti-coreceptor binding site antibodies to mediate ADCC.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Article
- Single-molecule localisation microscopy approaches reveal envelope glycoprotein clusters in single-enveloped viruses: a potential functional role?Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
- A monomeric envelope glycoprotein cytoplasmic tail is sufficient for HIV-1 Gag lattice trapping and incorporation.Journal of virology · 2025Article
- Conformational trajectory of the HIV-1 fusion peptide during CD4-induced envelope opening.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Receptor Binding for the Entry Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2: Insights from the Original Strain and Emerging Variants.Viruses · 2025Review
- Article
- Conformational activation and disulfide exchange in HIV-1 Env induce cell-free lytic/fusogenic transformation and enhance infection.Journal of virology · 2025Article
- The membrane-proximal external region of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein trimers in A18-lipid nanodiscs.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Inducible cell lines producing replication-defective human immunodeficiency virus particles containing envelope glycoproteins stabilized in a pretriggered conformation.Journal of virology · 2024Article
- HIV-1-envelope trimer transitions from prefusion-closed to CD4-bound-open conformations through an occluded-intermediate state.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
60 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
HIV-1 entry into cells requires binding of the viral envelope glycoprotein (Env) to receptor CD4 and coreceptor. Imaging of individual Env molecules on native virions shows Env trimers to be dynamic, spontaneously transitioning between three distinct well-populated conformational states: a pre-triggered Env (State 1), a default intermediate (State 2) and a three-CD4-bound conformation (State 3), which can be stabilized by binding of CD4 and coreceptor-surrogate antibody 17b. Here, using single-molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET), we show the default intermediate configuration to be asymmetric, with individual protomers adopting distinct conformations. During entry, this asymmetric intermediate forms when a single CD4 molecule engages the trimer. The trimer can then transition to State 3 by binding additional CD4 molecules and coreceptor.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.