[HTML][HTML] Understanding retroviral life cycle and its genomic RNA packaging

A Chameettachal, F Mustafa, TA Rizvi - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Members of the family Retroviridae are important animal and human pathogens. Being
obligate parasites, their replication involves a series of steps during which the virus hijacks …

Human retrovirus genomic RNA packaging

HM Hanson, NA Willkomm, H Yang, LM Mansky - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Two non-covalently linked copies of the retrovirus genome are specifically recruited to the
site of virus particle assembly and packaged into released particles. Retroviral RNA …

Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 uses a specific tRNAPro isodecoder to prime reverse transcription

YC Syu, J Hatterschide, CR Budding, Y Tang… - RNA, 2024 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the only oncogenic human retrovirus
discovered to date. All retroviruses are believed to use a host cell tRNA to prime reverse …

A purine loop and the primer binding site are critical for the selective encapsidation of mouse mammary tumor virus genomic RNA by Pr77Gag

A Chameettachal, V Vivet-Boudou… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Retroviral RNA genome (gRNA) harbors cis-acting sequences that facilitate its specific
packaging from a pool of other viral and cellular RNAs by binding with high-affinity to the …

Molecular Biology and Diversification of Human Retroviruses

ME Meissner, N Talledge, LM Mansky - Frontiers in virology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Studies of retroviruses have led to many extraordinary discoveries that have advanced our
understanding of not only human diseases, but also molecular biology as a whole. The most …

Identification of a putative Gag binding site critical for feline immunodeficiency virus genomic RNA packaging

A Krishnan, LM Ali, SG Prabhu, VN Pillai… - RNA, 2024 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The retroviral Gag precursor plays a central role in the selection and packaging of viral
genomic RNA (gRNA) by binding to virus-specific packaging signal (s)(psi or ψ). Previously …

[HTML][HTML] The Assembly of HTLV-1—How Does It Differ from HIV-1?

D Herrmann, S Meng, H Yang, LM Mansky, JS Saad - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Retroviral assembly is a highly coordinated step in the replication cycle. The process is
initiated when the newly synthesized Gag and Gag-Pol polyproteins are directed to the inner …

Rous sarcoma virus genomic RNA dimerization capability in vitro is not a prerequisite for viral infectivity

S Liu, R Kaddis Maldonado, T Rye-McCurdy, C Binkley… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Retroviruses package their full-length, dimeric genomic RNA (gRNA) via specific
interactions between the Gag polyprotein and a “Ψ” packaging signal located in the gRNA …

Portrait of the intrinsically disordered side of the HTLV-1 proteome

DL Lyngdoh, H Shukla, A Sonkar, R Anupam… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack an ordered 3D structure. These proteins contain
one or more intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs). IDPRs interact promiscuously …

HIV-1 integrase binding to genomic RNA 5′-UTR induces local structural changes in vitro and in virio

S Liu, PC Koneru, W Li, C Pathirage, AN Engelman… - Retrovirology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background During HIV-1 maturation, Gag and Gag-Pol polyproteins are
proteolytically cleaved and the capsid protein polymerizes to form the honeycomb capsid …