Molecular dynamics simulations suggest a mechanism for translocation of the HIV-1 TAT peptide across lipid membranes

HD Herce, AE Garcia - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
The recombinant HIV-1 Tat protein contains a small region corresponding to residues
47YGRKKRRQRR57R, which is capable of translocating cargoes of different molecular …

Arginine-rich peptides destabilize the plasma membrane, consistent with a pore formation translocation mechanism of cell-penetrating peptides

HD Herce, AE Garcia, J Litt, RS Kane, P Martín… - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
Recent molecular-dynamics simulations have suggested that the arginine-rich HIV Tat
peptides translocate by destabilizing and inducing transient pores in phospholipid bilayers …

Structure-activity relationship study of the plasma membrane translocating potential of a short peptide from HIV-1 Tat protein

E Virès, C Granier, P Prevot, B Lebleu - Letters in peptide science, 1997 - Springer
Tat, a 86-amino acid protein involved in the replication of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
type 1 (HIV-1), is able to translocate efficiently through the plasma membrane and to reach …

Cell-penetrating HIV1 TAT peptides can generate pores in model membranes

C Ciobanasu, JP Siebrasse, U Kubitscheck - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
Cell-penetrating peptides like the cationic human immunodeficiency virus-1 trans-acting
activator of transcription (TAT) peptide have the capability to traverse cell membranes and to …

Membrane-bound dynamic structure of an arginine-rich cell-penetrating peptide, the protein transduction domain of HIV TAT, from solid-state NMR

Y Su, AJ Waring, P Ruchala, M Hong - Biochemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
The protein transduction domain of HIV-1 TAT, TAT (48− 60), is an efficient cell-penetrating
peptide (CPP) that diffuses across the lipid membranes of cells despite eight cationic Arg …

Translocation of a β-peptide across cell membranes

N Umezawa, MA Gelman, MC Haigis… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Short cationic peptides derived from DNA-binding proteins, of which HIV Tat is a prototype,
can cross the membranes of living cells, and they can bring covalently attached moieties …

A truncated HIV-1 Tat protein basic domain rapidly translocates through the plasma membrane and accumulates in the cell nucleus

E Vives, P Brodin, B Lebleu - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1997 - ASBMB
Tat is an 86-amino acid protein involved in the replication of human immunodeficiency virus
type 1 (HIV-1). Several studies have shown that exogenous Tat protein was able to …

Protein transduction domains of HIV-1 and SIV TAT interact with charged lipid vesicles. Binding mechanism and thermodynamic analysis

A Ziegler, X Li Blatter, A Seelig, J Seelig - Biochemistry, 2003 - ACS Publications
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) traverse cell membranes of cultured cells very efficiently
by a mechanism not yet identified. Recent theories for the translocation suggest either the …

Translocation of branched-chain arginine peptides through cell membranes: flexibility in the spatial disposition of positive charges in membrane-permeable peptides

S Futaki, I Nakase, T Suzuki, Zhang, Y Sugiura - Biochemistry, 2002 - ACS Publications
A basic peptide derived from HIV-1 Tat has been reported to have the ability to translocate
through cell membranes and to bring exogenous proteins into cells. We have demonstrated …

Translocation of HIV TAT peptide and analogues induced by multiplexed membrane and cytoskeletal interactions

A Mishra, GH Lai, NW Schmidt… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), such as the HIV TAT peptide, are able to translocate
across cellular membranes efficiently. A number of mechanisms, from direct entry to various …