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HIV-1 gag proteins: diverse functions in the virus life cycleE O Freed
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892 0460, USA
Virology 251:1-15. 1998..This review briefly summarizes our current understanding of how HIV-1 Gag proteins function in the virus life cycle...
Mechanisms of enveloped virus releaseEric O Freed
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Bg. 535/Rm. 124, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Virus Res 106:85-6. 2004
The HIV-TSG101 interface: recent advances in a budding fieldEric O Freed
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0460, USA
Trends Microbiol 11:56-9. 2003..The structure of the PTAP-TSG101 binding site has recently been solved, providing valuable insights into this crucial protein-protein interaction...
Retroviruses 2004: review of the 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses ConferenceEric O Freed
HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bg 535 Rm 108, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Retrovirology 1:25. 2004..While the most striking developments this year involved post-entry events and assembly/release, significant progress was made towards elucidating a number of aspects of the retroviral replication cycle...
Viral late domainsEric O Freed
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0460, USA
J Virol 76:4679-87. 2002
Virology. Rafting with EbolaEric O Freed
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0460, USA
Science 296:279. 2002
The cell biology of HIV-1 and other retrovirusesEric O Freed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Retrovirology 3:77. 2006..MEETING REPORT: The conference began with a keynote address from W. Sundquist on the biochemistry of HIV-1 budding. This presentation will be described in the section on Assembly and Release of Retroviruses...
HIV-1 Gag: flipped out for PI(4,5)P(2)Eric O Freed
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:11101-2. 2006
Functional role of Alix in HIV-1 replicationKen Fujii
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21701 1201, USA
Virology 391:284-92. 2009....
Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 assembly and release by the cholesterol-binding compound amphotericin B methyl ester: evidence for Vpu dependenceAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI Frederick, Bldg 535, RM 108, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
J Virol 82:9776-81. 2008..We demonstrated that the ability of Vpu to counter the activity of CD317/BST-2/tetherin is markedly reduced by AME. These results indicate that AME interferes with the anti-CD317/BST-2/tetherin function of Vpu...
Real-time visualization of HIV-1 GAG trafficking in infected macrophagesKarine Gousset
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA
PLoS Pathog 4:e1000015. 2008..These data indicate that a population of Gag in infected macrophages remains sequestered internally and is presented to uninfected target cells at a virological synapse...
Effect of mutations in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease on cleavage of the gp41 cytoplasmic tailAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI Frederick, Bldg 535, RM 108, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
J Virol 84:3121-6. 2010..We identified a new gp41 mutation, R236L, that results in cleavage of the gp41 tail by the PIR PR. These results highlight the central role of gp41 cleavage as the primary mechanism of AME resistance...
Overexpression of the N-terminal domain of TSG101 inhibits HIV-1 budding by blocking late domain functionDimiter G Demirov
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0460, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:955-60. 2002..These data demonstrate a link between the E2-like domain of TSG101 and HIV-1 L domain function, and indicate that TSG101 derivatives can act as potent and specific inhibitors of HIV-1 replication by blocking virus budding...
HIV-1 escape from the entry-inhibiting effects of a cholesterol-binding compound via cleavage of gp41 by the viral proteaseAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:8467-71. 2007..These data reveal that HIV-1 can escape from an inhibitor of viral entry by acquiring mutations that cause the cytoplasmic tail of gp41 to be cleaved by the viral protease...
The capsid-spacer peptide 1 Gag processing intermediate is a dominant-negative inhibitor of HIV-1 maturationMary Ann Checkley
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute Frederick, Bldg 535 Rm 108, 1050 Boyles Street, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Virology 400:137-44. 2010..These data underscore the importance of full CA-SP1 processing for HIV-1 maturation and highlight the therapeutic potential of inhibitors that target this Gag cleavage event...
Defects in human immunodeficiency virus budding and endosomal sorting induced by TSG101 overexpressionRitu Goila-Gaur
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0460, USA
J Virol 77:6507-19. 2003..These results highlight the importance of TSG101 and the endosomal sorting pathway in virus budding and suggest that inhibitors can be developed that, like TSG-5', target HIV-1 without disrupting endosomal sorting...
Structural basis for viral late-domain binding to AlixSangho Lee
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health NIH, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Struct Mol Biol 14:194-9. 2007..Overexpression of the V domain inhibits HIV-1 release from cells. This inhibition of release is reversed by mutations that block binding of the Alix V domain to p6...
Mutation of dileucine-like motifs in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 capsid disrupts virus assembly, gag-gag interactions, gag-membrane binding, and virion maturationAnjali Joshi
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Bldg. 535/Rm. 108, Sultan Street, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
J Virol 80:7939-51. 2006..The varied phenotypes of the mutants reported here provide novel insights into the interplay among Gag multimerization, membrane binding, virus assembly, CA dimerization, particle maturation, and virion infectivity...
The interdomain linker region of HIV-1 capsid protein is a critical determinant of proper core assembly and stabilityJiyang Jiang
Section on Viral Gene Regulation, Program in Genomics of Differentiation, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health, National Institutes of Health, Building 6B, Room 216, 6 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 2780, USA
Virology 421:253-65. 2011..Collectively, these findings demonstrate that the linker region is essential for proper assembly and stability of cores and efficient replication...
In vitro resistance to the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 maturation inhibitor PA-457 (Bevirimat)Catherine S Adamson
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI-Frederick, Bldg. 535/Rm. 108, 1050 Boyles Street, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
J Virol 80:10957-71. 2006..These findings have implications for the ongoing development of PA-457 to treat HIV-1 infection in vivo...
Molecular characterization of feline immunodeficiency virus buddingBenjamin G Luttge
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI Frederick, Bldg 535, RM 108, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
J Virol 82:2106-19. 2008..Our data demonstrate that FIV relies predominantly on a Tsg101-binding PSAP motif in the C terminus of Gag to promote virus release in HeLa cells, and this budding mechanism is highly conserved in feline cells...
Evidence that productive human immunodeficiency virus type 1 assembly can occur in an intracellular compartmentAnjali Joshi
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702 1201, USA
J Virol 83:5375-87. 2009....
An Alix fragment potently inhibits HIV-1 budding: characterization of binding to retroviral YPXL late domainsUtpal M Munshi
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702 1201, USA
J Biol Chem 282:3847-55. 2007..This study identifies a novel Alix-derived dominant negative inhibitor of HIV-1 release and Gag processing and provides quantitative information on the interaction between Alix and viral late domains...
GGA and Arf proteins modulate retrovirus assembly and releaseAnjali Joshi
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Mol Cell 30:227-38. 2008..These findings identify the GGA proteins as modulators of HIV-1 release and the Arf proteins as critical cellular cofactors in retroviral Gag trafficking to the plasma membrane...
SAR by oxime-containing peptide libraries: application to Tsg101 ligand optimizationFa Liu
Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, CCR, NCI Frederick, Building 376 Boyles Street, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Chembiochem 9:2000-4. 2008..Approximately 15-20-fold enhancement in binding affinity was achieved by this approach...
Impact of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 resistance to protease inhibitors on evolution of resistance to the maturation inhibitor bevirimat (PA-457)Catherine S Adamson
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
J Virol 83:4884-94. 2009..These findings offer insights into the effect of PIR mutations on the evolution of BVM resistance in PI-experienced patients...
Cell-type-dependent targeting of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 assembly to the plasma membrane and the multivesicular bodyAkira Ono
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 0460, USA
J Virol 78:1552-63. 2004..These data are consistent with a model for Gag targeting that postulates two different cellular binding partners for Gag, one on the plasma membrane and the other in the MVB...
Effects of Gag mutation and processing on retroviral dimeric RNA maturationWilliam Fu
HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, P.O. Box B, Building 535, Room 336, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
J Virol 80:1242-9. 2006....
Polymorphisms in Gag spacer peptide 1 confer varying levels of resistance to the HIV- 1 maturation inhibitor bevirimatCatherine S Adamson
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Retrovirology 7:36. 2010..Recent clinical trials demonstrated that a significant proportion of HIV-1-infected patients do not respond to BVM. A patient's failure to respond correlated with baseline polymorphisms at SP1 residues 6-8...
Depletion of cellular cholesterol inhibits membrane binding and higher-order multimerization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 GagAkira Ono
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Virology 360:27-35. 2007..Altogether, these results are consistent with the hypothesis that cholesterol-enriched membrane microdomains promote HIV-1 particle production by facilitating both Gag-membrane binding and Gag multimerization...
A second-site suppressor significantly improves the defective phenotype imposed by mutation of an aromatic residue in the N-terminal domain of the HIV-1 capsid proteinShixing Tang
Viral Gene Regulation Section, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Building 6B, Room 216, Bethesda, MD 20892 2780, USA
Virology 359:105-15. 2007..These findings describe a novel occurrence, namely suppression of a mutation in a hydrophobic residue that is critical for maintaining the structural integrity of CA and proper core assembly...
Beyond Tsg101: the role of Alix in 'ESCRTing' HIV-1Ken Fujii
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702 1201, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 5:912-6. 2007..Here, we focus on the use of host-cell factors during HIV-1 budding and highlight recent progress in our understanding of the role of one such factor, Alix, in both viral and cellular membrane budding and fission events...
Association of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 gag with membrane does not require highly basic sequences in the nucleocapsid: use of a novel Gag multimerization assayAkira Ono
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
J Virol 79:14131-40. 2005..This report offers new insights into the association of HIV-1 Gag with membrane and with lipid rafts...
Functional replacement of a retroviral late domain by ubiquitin fusionAnjali Joshi
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Traffic 9:1972-83. 2008..These findings demonstrate that ubiquitin can functionally compensate for the absence of a retroviral late domain and provide insights into the host-cell machinery engaged by ubiquitin during particle egress...
Phosphatidylinositol (4,5) bisphosphate regulates HIV-1 Gag targeting to the plasma membraneAkira Ono
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:14889-94. 2004..These results demonstrate that PI(4,5)P2 plays a key role in Gag targeting to the plasma membrane and thus serves as a cellular determinant of HIV-1 particle production...
Inhibition of HIV-1 replication by amphotericin B methyl ester: selection for resistant variantsAbdul A Waheed
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA
J Biol Chem 281:28699-711. 2006..Our data define the target and mechanism of action of AME and provide support for the concept that cholesterol-binding compounds should be pursued as antiretroviral drugs to disrupt HIV-1 replication...
Site-specific mutations in HIV-1 gp41 reveal a correlation between HIV-1-mediated bystander apoptosis and fusion/hemifusionHimanshu Garg
Membrane Structure and Function Section, Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
J Biol Chem 282:16899-906. 2007..These results may help to explain the mechanism of HIV-1 Env-induced T cell depletion...
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 assembly, release, and maturationCatherine S Adamson
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Adv Pharmacol 55:347-87. 2007
HIV-1 maturation inhibitor bevirimat stabilizes the immature Gag latticePaul W Keller
Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH, Building 50, Room 1517, 50 South Drive, MSC 8025, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Virol 85:1420-8. 2011..In both cases, the observed failure to assemble mature capsids correlates with the loss of infectivity...
Defects in cellular sorting and retroviral assembly induced by GGA overexpressionAnjali Joshi
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Maryland, USA
BMC Cell Biol 10:72. 2009..GGA overexpression led to the formation of large, swollen vacuolar compartments, which in the case of GGA1 sequestered HIV-1 Gag...
HIV-1 and the host cell: an intimate associationEric O Freed
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Bldg. 535 Rm. 124 Sultan Street, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Trends Microbiol 12:170-7. 2004
Crystallographic and functional analysis of the ESCRT-I /HIV-1 Gag PTAP interactionYoung Jun Im
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 0580, USA
Structure 18:1536-47. 2010..However, the mutant alleles did rescue downregulation of endogenous EGF receptor. This demonstrates that the PSAP motif is not rate determining in EGF receptor downregulation under normal conditions...
Ion-abrasion scanning electron microscopy reveals surface-connected tubular conduits in HIV-infected macrophagesAdam E Bennett
Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS Pathog 5:e1000591. 2009..This potential mechanism for efficient virus trafficking between the cell surface and interior may represent a subversion of pre-existing vesicular machinery for antigen capture, processing, sequestration, and presentation...
Peptide inhibitors of HIV-1 egressAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
ACS Chem Biol 3:745-7. 2008..An article in this issue reports on the application of a bacterial reverse two-hybrid strategy to identify a cyclic peptide that disrupts Gag-Tsg101 binding and suppresses HIV-1 particle release...
Late domain-dependent inhibition of equine infectious anemia virus buddingMiranda Shehu-Xhilaga
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0460, USA
J Virol 78:724-32. 2004....
Human apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme-catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G) is incorporated into HIV-1 virions through interactions with viral and nonviral RNAsEvguenia S Svarovskaia
HIV Drug Resistance Program and AIDS Vaccine Program, Science Applications International Corporation Frederick, Inc, NCI Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
J Biol Chem 279:35822-8. 2004....
Virus maturation as a new HIV-1 therapeutic targetCatherine S Adamson
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Expert Opin Ther Targets 13:895-908. 2009..The identification and development of lead maturation inhibitors are highlighted...
HIV type 1 Gag as a target for antiviral therapyAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702 1201, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 28:54-75. 2012..In this review, we summarize our current understanding of HIV-1 Gag and suggest some approaches for the development of novel antiretroviral agents that target Gag...
Lipids and membrane microdomains in HIV-1 replicationAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Virus Res 143:162-76. 2009..In this review, we provide an overview of what is currently known about the involvement of lipids and membrane microdomains in HIV-1 replication...
Hydrazone- and hydrazide-containing N-substituted glycines as peptoid surrogates for expedited library synthesis: application to the preparation of Tsg101-directed HIV-1 budding antagonistsFa Liu
Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, CCR, National Cancer Institute-Frederick/NIH, Bldg. 376 Boyles St, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Org Lett 8:5165-8. 2006..This approach is demonstrated by application to Tsg101-binding compounds designed as potential HIV budding antagonists. [reaction: see text]..
Influenza virus not cRAFTy enough to dodge viperinAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Cell Host Microbe 2:71-2. 2007..Viperin appears to disrupt lipid rafts by suppressing the activity of farnesyl diphosphate synthase, a key enzyme in isoprenoid biosynthesis...
Methods for the study of HIV-1 assemblyAbdul A Waheed
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program NCI Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick MD, USA
Methods Mol Biol 485:163-84. 2009..Techniques have been developed in many laboratories to study each of the distinct phases of the HIV-1 assembly and release pathway. A number of these techniques are described in detail in this chapter...
Retrovirus buddingDimiter G Demirov
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Bldg. 535/Rm. 124, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA
Virus Res 106:87-102. 2004..This review traces the history of L domain discovery and characterization, and highlights the relationship between L domain activity, retrovirus release, and the host endosomal sorting machinery...
Photoinduced reactivity of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein with a membrane-embedded probe reveals insertion of portions of the HIV-1 Gp41 cytoplasmic tail into the viral membraneMathias Viard
Center of Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
Biochemistry 47:1977-83. 2008..These results shed light on the disposition of the HIV-1 gp41 CT with respect to the membrane. Moreover, our data have general implications for topology of membrane proteins and their in situ interactions with the lipid bilayer...
FIV Gag: virus assembly and host-cell interactionsBenjamin G Luttge
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Vet Immunol Immunopathol 134:3-13. 2010..This review summarizes currently known interactions involving HIV-1 and FIV Gag that affect virus release, infectivity, and replication...
Role of lipid rafts in virus replicationAkira Ono
Virus-Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Maryland 21702, USA
Adv Virus Res 64:311-58. 2005
Novel approaches to inhibiting HIV-1 replicationCatherine S Adamson
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Antiviral Res 85:119-41. 2010..This article forms part of a special issue of Antiviral Research marking the 25th anniversary of antiretroviral drug discovery and development, Vol 85, issue 1, 2010...
HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein biosynthesis, trafficking, and incorporationMary Ann Checkley
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, NCI Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
J Mol Biol 410:582-608. 2011..Here, we review our current understanding of HIV-1 Env glycoprotein trafficking and incorporation into virions...
The late domain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 p6 promotes virus release in a cell type-dependent mannerDimiter G Demirov
Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0460, USA
J Virol 76:105-17. 2002..The results described here define the role of p6 in virus replication in a wide range of cell types and reveal a strong cell type-dependent requirement for p6 in virus particle budding...
Recent progress in antiretrovirals--lessons from resistanceCatherine S Adamson
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702 1201, USA
Drug Discov Today 13:424-32. 2008....
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 N-terminal capsid mutants containing cores with abnormally high levels of capsid protein and virtually no reverse transcriptaseShixing Tang
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Virol 77:12592-602. 2003..Thus, taken together with the almost complete absence of RT in mutant cores, these findings can account for the failure of the three CA mutants to synthesize viral DNA following virus entry into cells...
Anti-HIV-1 Therapeutics: From FDA-approved Drugs to Hypothetical Future TargetsCatherine S Adamson
Virus Cell Interaction Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Maryland, 21702 1201
Mol Interv 9:70-4. 2009..The current status of antiretroviral therapy and some of the promising new targets against which novel antiviral agents could be developed are discussed...
Determinants of activity of the HIV-1 maturation inhibitor PA-457Feng Li
Panacos Pharmaceuticals, 209 Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD 20877, USA
Virology 356:217-24. 2006..These findings support and extend previous observations that PA-457 is a specific inhibitor of CA-SP1 cleavage and identify the CA-SP1 domain as the primary viral determinant for this novel inhibitor of HIV-1 replication...
Regulation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Env-mediated membrane fusion by viral protease activityTsutomu Murakami
Department of Immunology, Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903 0215, Japan
J Virol 78:1026-31. 2004..Interestingly, truncation of the gp41 cytoplasmic tail reversed the fusion defect. These results suggest that interactions between unprocessed Gag and the gp41 cytoplasmic tail suppress fusion...
Structure of the myristylated human immunodeficiency virus type 2 matrix protein and the role of phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-bisphosphate in membrane targetingJamil S Saad
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
J Mol Biol 382:434-47. 2008....
A cell-penetrating helical peptide as a potential HIV-1 inhibitorHongtao Zhang
Laboratory of Molecular Modeling and Drug Design, Lindsley F Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center, 310 E 67th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Mol Biol 378:565-80. 2008..This proof-of-concept cell-penetrating peptide may aid validation of capsid as an anti-HIV-1 drug target and may help in designing peptidomimetics and small molecule drugs targeted to this protein...
Point mutations in the HIV-1 matrix protein turn off the myristyl switchJamil S Saad
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
J Mol Biol 366:574-85. 2007..This mutant binds PI(4,5)P(2) with twofold higher affinity compared with the native protein, suggesting a potential compensatory mechanism for membrane binding...
A mutation in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag protein destabilizes the interaction of the envelope protein subunits gp120 and gp41Melody R Davis
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-2363, USA
J Virol 80:2405-17. 2006..Our results suggest that an altered interaction between the MA domain of Gag and the gp41 cytoplasmic tail leads to dissociation of gp120 from gp41 during HIV-1 particle assembly, thus resulting in impaired fusion and infectivity...
Mechanisms of HIV type 1-induced cognitive impairment: evidence for hippocampal cholinergic involvement with overstimulation of the VIPergic system by the viral coat protein coreSusan A Farr
Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC, VA Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63106, USA
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 18:1189-95. 2002....
Pravastatin does not have a consistent antiviral effect in chronically HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapyPeter A Sklar
AIDS 19:1109-11. 2005
