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ArticleCell host & microbe2018

Single HIV-1 Imaging Reveals Progression of Infection through CA-Dependent Steps of Docking at the Nuclear Pore, Uncoating, and Nuclear Transport.

Ashwanth C Francis, Gregory B Melikyan

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Article in Cell host & microbe, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 136 papers.

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136citing papers in PubMed
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ashwanth C FrancisDepartment of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Gregory B MelikyanDepartment of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. Electronic address: gmeliki@emory.edu.
Emory University · US

Funding

BIOPHYSICS OF PROTEIN-MEDIATED MEMBRANE FUSIONR01GM054787 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MD BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE · PI MELIKIAN, GREGORY B · 2000 to 2018
$6.5M
Imaging of Single HIV-1 Uncoating and Transport to the nucleusR01AI129862 · NIAID · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI KVARATSKHELIA, MAMUKA, MELIKIAN, GREGORY B · 2017 to 2025
$5.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI129862NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM054787
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HIV-1 core consists of capsid proteins (CA) surrounding viral genomic RNA. After virus-cell fusion, the core enters the cytoplasm and the capsid shell is lost through uncoating. CA loss precedes nuclear import and HIV integration into the host genome, but the timing and location of uncoating remain unclear. By visualizing single HIV-1 infection, we find that CA is required for core docking at the nuclear envelope (NE), whereas early uncoating in the cytoplasm promotes proteasomal degradation of viral complexes. Only docked cores exhibiting accelerated loss of CA at the NE enter the nucleus. Interestingly, a CA mutation (N74D) altering virus engagement of host factors involved in nuclear transport does not alter the uncoating site at the NE but reduces the nuclear penetration depth. Thus, CA protects HIV-1 complexes from degradation, mediates docking at the nuclear pore before uncoating, and determines the depth of nuclear penetration en route to integration.

Indexed as

Active Transport, Cell NucleusHost-Pathogen InteractionsVirus UncoatingHEK293 CellsHIV-1HIV Core Protein p24HIV InfectionsHumansMicroscopy, FluorescenceNuclear PoreOptical ImagingHIV Core Protein p24capsid proteincyclophilin AHIV inhibitorsHIV uncoatingintegrationnuclear importnuclear poreproteasomal degradationreverse transcriptionsingle-particle tracking

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PMID29649444
PMCPMC5901770
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