Proteolytic refolding of the HIV-1 capsid protein amino-terminus facilitates viral core assembly

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1555-1568

  Von Schwedler, Uta K ^a   Stemmler, Timothy L ^a   Klishko, Victor Y ^a   Li, Su ^a   Albertine, Kurt H ^a   Davis, Darrell R ^a,b   Sundquist, Wesley I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Capsid protein; Human immunodeficiency virus; Maturation; Retrovirus

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GAG PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LENTIVIRINAE; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; ONCOVIRINAE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAPSID; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LENTIVIRUS; MIRIDAE; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE; ONCOVIRINAE; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0032536896     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.6.1555     Document Type: Article

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