Structural basis for spumavirus GAG tethering to chromatin

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Significance Spumaviruses are being developed as vectors for gene-therapy applications, but how these retroviruses select genomic locations for integration remains unknown. Here we use X-ray crystallography to visualize the interaction between the spumaviral GAG protein and a nucleosome. We show that this interaction is essential for the observed distribution of spumavirus integration sites in various human cell...

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