HIV-1 maturation: lessons learned from inhibitors

AB Kleinpeter, EO Freed - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the emergence of HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s, the development of safe and
effective therapies has accompanied a massive increase in our understanding of the …

[HTML][HTML] Retroviral proteases and their roles in virion maturation

J Konvalinka, HG Kräusslich, B Müller - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Proteolytic processing of viral polyproteins is essential for retrovirus infectivity. Retroviral
proteases (PR) become activated during or after assembly of the immature, non-infectious …

Cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transported through intact nuclear pores

V Zila, E Margiotta, B Turoňová, TG Müller, CE Zimmerli… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) remains a major health threat. Viral capsid
uncoating and nuclear import of the viral genome are critical for productive infection. The …

An atomic model of HIV-1 capsid-SP1 reveals structures regulating assembly and maturation

FKM Schur, M Obr, WJH Hagen, W Wan, AJ Jakobi… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Immature HIV-1 assembles at and buds from the plasma membrane before proteolytic
cleavage of the viral Gag polyprotein induces structural maturation. Maturation can be …

Maturation-dependent HIV-1 surface protein redistribution revealed by fluorescence nanoscopy

J Chojnacki, T Staudt, B Glass, P Bingen, J Engelhardt… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) buds from the cell as an immature particle
requiring subsequent proteolysis of the main structural polyprotein Gag for morphological …

Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 is required for HIV-1 maturation

AA Waheed, Y Zhu, E Agostino… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
HIV-1 assembly occurs at the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane (PM) in highly ordered
membrane microdomains. The size and stability of membrane microdomains is regulated by …

Assembly and architecture of HIV

BK Ganser-Pornillos, M Yeager, O Pornillos - Viral molecular machines, 2011 - Springer
HIV forms spherical, membrane-enveloped, pleomorphic virions, 1,000–1,500 Å in diameter,
which contain two copies of its single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome. Virus particles …

Novel dengue virus NS2B/NS3 protease inhibitors

H Wu, S Bock, M Snitko, T Berger… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Dengue fever is a severe, widespread, and neglected disease with more than 2 million
diagnosed infections per year. The dengue virus NS2B/NS3 protease (PR) represents a …

Multi-step inhibition explains HIV-1 protease inhibitor pharmacodynamics and resistance

SA Rabi, GM Laird, CM Durand… - The Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Clin Investig
HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs) are among the most effective antiretroviral drugs. They are
characterized by highly cooperative dose-response curves that are not explained by current …

Disrupting HIV‐1 capsid formation causes cGAS sensing of viral DNA

RP Sumner, L Harrison, E Touizer, TP Peacock… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Detection of viral DNA by cyclic GMP‐AMP synthase (cGAS) is a first line of defence leading
to the production of type I interferon (IFN). As HIV‐1 replication is not a strong inducer of IFN …