HIV-1: fifteen proteins and an RNA

AD Frankel, JAT Young - Annual review of biochemistry, 1998 - annualreviews.org
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is a complex retrovirus encoding 15 distinct proteins.
Substantial progress has been made toward understanding the function of each protein, and …

G-quadruplexes in viruses: function and potential therapeutic applications

M Métifiot, S Amrane, S Litvak… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
G-rich nucleic acids can form non-canonical G-quadruplex structures (G4s) in which four
guanines fold in a planar arrangement through Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds. Although many …

Efficient transfer, integration, and sustained long-term expression of the transgene in adult rat brains injected with a lentiviral vector.

L Naldini, U Blömer, FH Gage… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
We describe the construction of a safe, replication-defective and efficient lentiviral vector
suitable for in vivo gene delivery. The reverse transcription of the vector was found to be a …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid-to-solid phase transition of oskar ribonucleoprotein granules is essential for their function in Drosophila embryonic development

M Bose, M Lampe, J Mahamid, A Ephrussi - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Asymmetric localization of oskar ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules to the oocyte posterior is
crucial for abdominal patterning and germline formation in the Drosophila embryo. We show …

An architectural role of specific RNA–RNA interactions in oskar granules

M Bose, B Rankovic, J Mahamid, A Ephrussi - Nature cell biology, 2024 - nature.com
Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) granules are membraneless condensates that organize the
intracellular space by compartmentalization of specific RNAs and proteins. Studies have …

RNA structure: advances and assessment of 3D structure prediction

Z Miao, E Westhof - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Biological functions of RNA molecules are dependent upon sustained specific three-
dimensional (3D) structures of RNA, with or without the help of proteins. Understanding of …

Structural determinants and mechanism of HIV-1 genome packaging

K Lu, X Heng, MF Summers - Journal of molecular biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Like all retroviruses, the human immunodeficiency virus selectively packages two copies of
its unspliced RNA genome, both of which are utilized for strand-transfer-mediated …

Potent effect of target structure on microRNA function

D Long, R Lee, P Williams, CY Chan… - Nature structural & …, 2007 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that repress protein synthesis by binding
to target messenger RNAs. We investigated the effect of target secondary structure on the …

How retroviruses select their genomes

V D'Souza, MF Summers - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
As retroviruses assemble in infected cells, two copies of their full-length, unspliced RNA
genomes are selected for packaging from a cellular milieu that contains a substantial excess …

Dimerization of retroviral RNA genomes: an inseparable pair

JC Paillart, M Shehu-Xhilaga, R Marquet… - Nature Reviews …, 2004 - nature.com
Many viruses carry more than one segment of nucleic acid into the virion particle, but
retroviruses are the only known group of viruses that contain two identical (or nearly …