HIV-1 cores retain their integrity until minutes before uncoating in the nucleus

Autor: Wei-Shau Hu, Ryan C. Burdick, Vinay K. Pathak, Kunio Nagashima, Chenglei Li
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2019467118
Popis: Significance Here, we used a fluorescent protein that is free in solution and is trapped in nuclear HIV-1 capsids to demonstrate that the capsids retain integrity and prevent mixing of macromolecules within the viral core and the cellular environment until just before integration. We also found that capsid integrity is maintained until just minutes before disassembly in the nucleus, revealing that uncoating proceeds rapidly after integrity loss. These valuable insights into the early stage of HIV-1 replication indicate that intact HIV-1 capsids are imported through nuclear pores, that reverse transcription is mostly completed within intact capsids, and that preintegration complex-host interactions facilitating integration and target site selection must occur within a short time frame between capsid disassembly and integration.
We recently reported that HIV-1 cores that retained >94% of their capsid (CA) protein entered the nucleus and disassembled (uncoated) near their integration site
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