Article
Activation of the retroviral budding factor ALIX.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2011
Zhai Qianting, Landesman Michael B, Chung Hyo-Young, Dierkers Adam, Jeffries Cy M, Trewhella Jill, Hill Christopher P, Sundquist Wesley I
Abstract excerpt
The cellular ALIX protein functions within the ESCRT pathway to facilitate intralumenal endosomal vesicle formation, the abscission stage of cytokinesis, and enveloped virus budding. Here, we report that the C-terminal proline-rich region (PRR) of ALIX folds back against the upstream domains and auto-inhibits V domain binding to viral late domains. Mutations designed to destabilize the closed conformation of the...
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