HIV-1 is dependent on its immature lattice to recruit IP6 for mature capsid assembly

N Renner, A Kleinpeter, DL Mallery… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
HIV-1 Gag metamorphoses inside each virion, from an immature lattice that forms during
viral production to a mature capsid that drives infection. Here we show that the immature …

Biochemical reconstitution of HIV-1 assembly and maturation

I Kucharska, P Ding, KK Zadrozny, RA Dick… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The assembly of an orthoretrovirus such as HIV-1 requires the coordinated functioning of
multiple biochemical activities of the viral Gag protein. These activities include membrane …

Computational Enzyme Redesign Enhances Tolerance to Denaturants for Peptide C-Terminal Amidation

T Zhu, J Sun, H Pang, B Wu - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
The escalating demand for biocatalysts in pharmaceutical and biochemical applications
underscores the critical imperative to enhance enzyme activity and durability under high …

Recombinant expression of HIV-1 protease using soluble fusion tags in Escherichia coli: A vital tool for functional characterization of HIV-1 protease

S Eche, ML Gordon - Virus Research, 2021 - Elsevier
HIV-1 protease expression in the laboratory is demanding because of its high cytotoxicity,
making it difficult to express in bacterial expression systems such as Escherichia coli. To …

Purification and characterization of naturally occurring HIV-1 (South African subtype C) protease mutants from inclusion bodies

SB Maseko, S Natarajan, V Sharma… - Protein expression and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in sub-Saharan Africa represent about 56%
of global infections. Many studies have targeted HIV-1 protease for the development of …

Improved expression and purification of highly-active 3 chymotrypsin-like protease from SARS-CoV-2

HLT Nguyen, NQT Nguyen, TT Le, XDT Pham… - Protein Expression and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative pathogen
of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of …

mRNA Engineering for the Efficient Chaperone-Mediated Co-Translational Folding of Recombinant Proteins in Escherichia coli

LM Bui, A Geraldi, TT Nguyen, JH Lee, JY Lee… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The production of soluble, functional recombinant proteins by engineered bacterial hosts is
challenging. Natural molecular chaperone systems have been used to solubilize various …

Optimized procedure for recovering HIV-1 protease (C-SA) from inclusion bodies

SB Maseko, D Govender, T Govender, T Naicker… - The protein journal, 2019 - Springer
HIV-1 is an infectious virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and it
is one of the major causes of deaths worldwide. The production of HIV-1 protease (PR) on a …

Refolding and purification of cGMP-grade recombinant human neurturin from Escherichia coli inclusion bodies

G Xi, R Esfandiary, CB Sacramento, H Jouihan… - Protein Expression and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Neurturin is a potent neurotrophic factor that has been investigated as a potential
therapeutic agent for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's …

Identification of a novel HIV-1C protease from a microbial source

Z Sonday - 2023 - open.uct.ac.za
HIV-1 subtype C is currently the most prevalent in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS cases in
subSaharan Africa. Most clinical protease inhibitors (PIs) were designed against subtype B …