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PLoS One
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Gu, Ying ; Cao, Fang ; Wang, Lei ; Hou, Wangheng ; Zhang, Jun ; ... More +
Gu, Ying ; Cao, Fang ; Wang, Lei ; Hou, Wangheng ; Zhang, Jun ; Hew, Choy-leong ; Li, Shaowei ; Yuan, Y. Adam ; Xia, Ningshao Less -
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Mature HIV-1 viral particles assemble as a fullerene configuration comprising p24 capsid hexamers, pentamers and dimers. In this paper, we report the X-ray crystal structures of the p24 protein from natural HIV-1 strain (BMJ4) in complex with Fab A10F9, which recognizes a conserved epitope in the C-terminal domain of the BMJ4 p24 protein. Our structures reveal a novel shoulder-to-shoulder p24 dimerization mode that is mediated by an S-S bridge at C177. Consistent with these structures, the shoulder-to-shoulder dimer that was obtained from the BMJ4 strain was also observed in p24 proteins from other strains by the introduction of a cysteine residue at position 177. The potential biological significance was further validated by the introduction of a C177A mutation in the BMJ4 strain, which then displays a low infectivity. Our data suggest that this novel shoulder-to-shoulder dimer interface trapped by this unique S-S bridge could represent a physiologically relevant mode of HIV-1 capsid assembly during virus maturation, although Cys residue itself may not be critical for HIV-I replication.
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Amino Acid Sequence Antibodies, Monoclonal Capsid Crystallography, X-Ray HIV-1 HIV Antibodies HIV Core Protein P24 Humans Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Models, Molecular Molecular Sequence Data Protein Binding Protein Multimerization Protein Structure, Tertiary Solutions Virus Assembly
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PLoS One. 2013; 8(4).
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Journal Article
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CDC Public Access
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