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Cationic Residues of the HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Enable DNA Condensation to Maintain Viral Core Particle Stability during Reverse Transcription.
Viruses - 29 May 2024
Gien Helena, Morse Michael, McCauley Micah J, Rouzina Ioulia, Gorelick Robert J, Williams Mark C
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein (NC) is a multifunctional viral protein necessary for HIV-1 replication. Recent studies have demonstrated that reverse transcription (RT) completes in the intact viral capsid, and the timing of RT and uncoating are correlated. How the small viral core stably contains the ~10 kbp double stranded (ds) DNA product of RT, and the role of NC in this process, are not well understood. We...
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