The HIV-1 capsid core is an opportunistic nuclear import receptor

G Xue, HJ Yu, C Buffone, SW Huang, KE Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… Unlike smaller cargo that interacts with cellular NTRs to achieve nuclear entry, we propose
that the HIV-1 core, comprised of multimeric CA in association with the viral nucleic acid and …

HIV-1 capsid is involved in post-nuclear entry steps

NY Chen, L Zhou, PJ Gane, S Opp, NJ Ball, G Nicastro… - Retrovirology, 2016 - Springer
HIV-1 capsid influences viral uncoating and nuclear import. Some capsid is detected in the
core, inhibiting nuclear transport of HIV-1 PICs without altering reverse transcription [18, 40] …

Interactions of HIV-1 capsid with host factors and their implications for developing novel therapeutics

S Zhuang, BE Torbett - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
… intracellular capsid trafficking after viral fusion, nuclear import, … by Nup358 could destabilize
the capsid core by causing cis-to-… on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Seattle, WA, …

A new class of capsid-targeting inhibitors that specifically block HIV-1 nuclear import

A Boulay, E Quevarec, I Malet, G Nicastro… - EMBO Molecular …, 2024 - embopress.org
… more complex structures, such as capsid tubes or incoming cores in the context of infection.
… of assembled viral cores, or to areas of distinct curvature type across capsid shells, such as …

HIV-1 capsid and viral DNA integration

R Dwivedi, P Prakash, BV Kumbhar… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
nuclear import/entry step of HIV-1 infection. Emerging evidence also supports the functional
role of CA in the post-nuclear entry steps of infection, such as HIV-1core of the HIV-1 capsid

The HIV-1 capsid core is an opportunistic nuclear import receptor [preprint]

G Xue, HJ Yu, AT Gres, MH Guney… - 2021 - repository.escholarship.umassmed …
… Collectively, these findings implicate the HIV-1 CA hexameric lattice … nuclear transport
receptor (NTR) that exploits soluble host 34 factors to modulate NPC requirements during nuclear

Structure, function, and interactions of the HIV-1 capsid protein

E Rossi, ME Meuser, CJ Cunanan, S Cocklin - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Another important host cell factor that plays a part in the nuclear import for the core of HIV-1
is the transportin-3 protein (TNPO3, also called TRN-SR2). It was initially thought to interact …

HIV-1 capsids enter the FG phase of nuclear pores like a transport receptor

L Fu, EN Weiskopf, O Akkermans, NA Swanson… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
… captured by nuclear transport receptors (NTRs). Here we show that HIV-1 capsid assemblies
… Like NTRs, the capsid readily partitions into an in vitro assembled cohesive FG phase that …

Role of Vpr in HIV-1 nuclear import: therapeutic implications

Y Aida, G Matsuda - Current HIV research, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
… Next, the core containing viral genomic RNA is released into the cytoplasm. Reverse …
Second, although viral capsid uncoating is likely a prerequisite for nuclear import, specific …

Nuclear entry of DNA viruses

N Fay, N Panté - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… Viruses are opportunistic pathogens that infect a host by attacking their … the principles of
cellular nuclear transport, discuss the … In summary, HBV capsids use the cellular nuclear import