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Jun-ichi Sakuragi¹

¹Dept. Viral Infections, RIMD, Osaka University. sakuragi@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

|October 7, 2011

Summary

Understanding retroviral maturation is key for developing antivirals. This study reveals synchronous but distinct steps in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag protein processing, RNA dimerization, and particle infectivity.

Area of Science:

Virology
Molecular Biology
Structural Biology

Context:

Retrovirus infectivity relies on post-budding maturation, involving viral protease cleavage of the Gag polyprotein.
Defective protease leads to non-infectious, donut-like particles with fragile genomic RNA dimers.
The precise mechanism of retroviral particle maturation remains incompletely understood.

Purpose:

To investigate the ordered maturation process of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) virions.
To elucidate the synchronous progression and distinct transition points of Gag processing, RNA dimerization, and particle infectivity.
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HIV-1 Gag cleavage site mutants were engineered to allow observation of virion maturation steps.

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