Automethylation of protein arginine methyltransferase 6 (PRMT6) regulates its stability and its anti-HIV-1 activity.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Certain murine leukemia viruses (MLVs) are capable of inducing progressive spongiform motor neuron disease in susceptible mice upon infection of the central nervous system (CNS). The major CNS parenchymal target of these neurovirulent retroviruses (NVs) are the microglia, whose infection is largely coinciden...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Dimcheff DE,Volkert LG,Li Y,DeLucia AL,Lynch WP

更新日期：2006-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We and others have recently demonstrated that the human retrovirus HTLV-I was producing a spliced antisense transcript, which led to the synthesis of the HBZ protein. The objective of the present study was to demonstrate the existence of antisense transcription in HIV-1 and to provide a better characterizati...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Landry S,Halin M,Lefort S,Audet B,Vaquero C,Mesnard JM,Barbeau B

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reducing transmission of HIV-1 through breast milk is needed to help decrease the burden of pediatric HIV/AIDS in society. We have previously reported that alkyl sulfates (i.e., sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) are microbicidal against HIV-1 at low concentrations, are biodegradable, have little/no toxicity and a...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Urdaneta S,Wigdahl B,Neely EB,Berlin CM Jr,Schengrund CL,Lin HM,Howett MK

更新日期：2005-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recombination is a common feature of retroviral biology and one of the most important factors responsible for generating viral diversity at both the intra-host and the population levels. However, relatively little is known about rates and molecular processes of recombination for retroviruses other than HIV, ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Bęczkowski PM,Hughes J,Biek R,Litster A,Willett BJ,Hosie MJ

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ankyrins are cellular mediators of a number of essential protein-protein interactions. Unlike intrabodies, ankyrins are composed of highly structured repeat modules characterized by disulfide bridge-independent folding. Artificial ankyrin molecules, designed to target viral components, might act as intracell...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Nangola S,Urvoas A,Valerio-Lepiniec M,Khamaikawin W,Sakkhachornphop S,Hong SS,Boulanger P,Minard P,Tayapiwatana C

更新日期：2012-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 replication is critically dependent upon controlled processing of its RNA and the activities provided by its encoded regulatory factors Tat and Rev. A screen of small molecule modulators of RNA processing identified several which inhibited virus gene expression, affecting both relative abundance of spe...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Balachandran A,Wong R,Stoilov P,Pan S,Blencowe B,Cheung P,Harrigan PR,Cochrane A

更新日期：2017-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) effectively controls viral replication in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infected individuals but cannot completely eradicate the infection, at least in part due to the persistence of latently infected cells. One strategy that is being active...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Miller LK,Kobayashi Y,Chen CC,Russnak TA,Ron Y,Dougherty JP

更新日期：2013-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemokine receptors (CKRs), the primordial receptors for primate lentiviruses, are sufficient to mediate virus-cell fusion. Several different fusogenic CKRs and related receptors provide a broad potential host cell range, presumably advantageous for viral spread within a given infected individual, and across...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Iyengar S,Schwartz DH

更新日期：2012-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retroviruses have a diploid genome and recombine at high frequency. Recombinant proviruses can be generated when two genetically different RNA genomes are packaged into the same retroviral particle. It was shown in several studies that recombinant proviruses could be generated in each round of HIV-1 replicat...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kharytonchyk SA,Kireyeva AI,Osipovich AB,Fomin IK

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of viral DNA into the host genome is a central event in the replication cycle and the pathogenesis of retroviruses, including HIV. Although most cells infected with HIV are rapidly eliminated in vivo, HIV also infects long-lived cells that persist during combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Cells wit...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Anderson EM,Maldarelli F

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SAMHD1 is an HIV-1 restriction factor in non-dividing monocytes, dendritic cells (DCs), macrophages, and resting CD4+ T-cells. Acting as a deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) triphosphohydrolase, SAMHD1 hydrolyzes dNTPs and restricts HIV-1 infection in macrophages and resting CD4+ T-cells by decreasing the i...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： St Gelais C,de Silva S,Amie SM,Coleman CM,Hoy H,Hollenbaugh JA,Kim B,Wu L

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Efficient targeted gene transfer and cell type specific transgene expression are important for the safe and effective expression of transgenes in vivo. Enveloped viral vectors allow insertion of exogenous membrane proteins into their envelopes, which could potentially aid in the targeted transduction of spec...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Ye Z,Harmison GG,Ragheb JA,Schubert M

更新日期：2005-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The widespread use of highly effective, combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has led to a significant reduction in the incidence of HIV-associated dementia (HAD). Despite these advances, the prevalence of HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs) has been estimated at approximately 40%-50%. In t...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Evering TH,Kamau E,St Bernard L,Farmer CB,Kong XP,Markowitz M

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiological agent of HTLV associated myelopathy/ Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP) and Adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), in around 2-5% of the infected individuals. Host genetic background might play a role in disease progression. Several previ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Benencio P,Fraile Gonzalez SA,Ducasa N,Page K,Berini CA,Biglione MM

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymidine analogue resistance mutations (TAMs) selected under treatment with nucleoside analogues generate two distinct genotypic profiles in the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT): (i) TAM1: M41L, L210W and T215Y, and (ii) TAM2: D67N, K70R and K219E/Q, and sometimes T215F. Secondary mutations, including thumb...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Betancor G,Garriga C,Puertas MC,Nevot M,Anta L,Blanco JL,Pérez-Elías MJ,de Mendoza C,Martínez MA,Martinez-Picado J,Menéndez-Arias L,Resistance Platform of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (ResRIS).,Iribarren JA,Caballero E,R

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the APOBEC family of cellular cytidine deaminases represent a recently identified group of proteins that provide immunity to infection by retroviruses and protect the cell from endogenous mobile retroelements. Yet, HIV-1 is largely immune to the intrinsic antiviral effects of APOBEC proteins because it enco...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Goila-Gaur R,Strebel K

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-mediated CD4 depletion is the hallmark of AIDS and is the most reliable predictor of disease progression. While HIV replication is associated with CD4 depletion in general, plasma viremia by itself predicts the rate of CD4 loss only minimally in untreated patients. To resolve this paradox, I hypothesize the existe...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Wu Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously demonstrated that primary Th1Th17 cells are highly permissive to HIV-1, whereas Th1 cells are relatively resistant. Molecular mechanisms underlying these differences remain unknown. RESULTS:Exposure to replication competent and single-round VSV-G pseudotyped HIV strains provide evidence that s...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Bernier A,Cleret-Buhot A,Zhang Y,Goulet JP,Monteiro P,Gosselin A,DaFonseca S,Wacleche VS,Jenabian MA,Routy JP,Tremblay C,Ancuta P

更新日期：2013-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Platelets are associated with HIV in the blood of infected individuals and might modulate viral dissemination, particularly if the virus is directly transmitted into the bloodstream. The C-type lectin DC-SIGN and the novel HIV attachment factor CLEC-2 are expressed by platelets and facilitate HIV transmissio...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Chaipan C,Steffen I,Tsegaye TS,Bertram S,Glowacka I,Kato Y,Schmökel J,Münch J,Simmons G,Gerardy-Schahn R,Pöhlmann S

更新日期：2010-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs are a recently discovered class of small noncoding functional RNAs. These molecules mediate post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in a sequence specific manner. MicroRNAs are now known to be key players in a variety of biological processes and have been shown to be deregulated in a number of can...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Scaria V,Jadhav V

更新日期：2007-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:International travel plays a role in the spread of HIV-1 across Europe. It is, however, not known whether international travel is more important for spread of the epidemic as compared to endogenous infections within single countries. In this study, phylogenetic associations among HIV of newly diagnosed patie...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Frentz D,Wensing AM,Albert J,Paraskevis D,Abecasis AB,Hamouda O,Jørgensen LB,Kücherer C,Struck D,Schmit JC,Åsjö B,Balotta C,Beshkov D,Camacho RJ,Clotet B,Coughlan S,De Wit S,Griskevicius A,Grossman Z,Horban A,Kolu

更新日期：2013-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 Integrase (IN) interacts with the cellular co-factor LEDGF/p75 and tethers the HIV preintegration complex to the host genome enabling integration. Recently a new class of IN inhibitors was described, the IN-LEDGF allosteric inhibitors (INLAIs). Designed to interfere with the IN-LEDGF interaction during...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Amadori C,van der Velden YU,Bonnard D,Orlov I,van Bel N,Le Rouzic E,Miralles L,Brias J,Chevreuil F,Spehner D,Chasset S,Ledoussal B,Mayr L,Moreau F,García F,Gatell J,Zamborlini A,Emiliani S,Ruff M,Klaholz BP,Moog C

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV-1 integration results in genomic DNA gaps that are repaired by cellular DNA repair pathways. This step of the lentiviral life cycle remains poorly understood despite its crucial importance for successful replication. We and others reported that Ku70 protein of the non-homologous end joining pathway (NHEJ...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Knyazhanskaya E,Anisenko A,Shadrina O,Kalinina A,Zatsepin T,Zalevsky A,Mazurov D,Gottikh M

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Few years after HTLV-1 identification and isolation in humans, STLV-1, its simian counterpart, was discovered. It then became clear that STLV-1 is present almost in all simian species. Subsequent molecular epidemiology studies demonstrated that, apart from HTLV-1 subtype A, all human subtypes have a simian homolog. As...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Jégado B,Kashanchi F,Dutartre H,Mahieux R

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Host SAM domain and HD domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) suppresses reverse transcription kinetics of HIV-1 in nondividing cells such as macrophages by hydrolyzing and nearly depleting cellular dNTPs, which are the substrates of viral reverse transcriptase (RT). However, unlike HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIVsm enco...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Lenzi GM,Domaoal RA,Kim DH,Schinazi RF,Kim B

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The continued persistence of HIV-1 as a public health concern due to the lack of a cure calls for the development of new tools for studying replication of the virus. Here, we used NanoLuc, a small and extremely bright luciferase protein, to develop an HIV-1 bioluminescent reporter virus that simplifies funct...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kirui J,Freed EO

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Attenuation of p53 activity appears to be a major step in Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax transformation. However, p53 genomic mutations are late and rather infrequent events in HTLV-1 induced Adult T cell leukemia (ATL). The paper by Zane et al. shows that a mediator of p53 activity, Wild-type p53-indu...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Gillet N,Carpentier A,Barez PY,Willems L

更新日期：2012-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) Tax protein indirectly influences transcriptional activation, signal transduction, cell cycle control, and apoptosis. The function of Tax primarily relies on protein-protein interactions. We have previously shown that Tax upregulates the cell cycle checkpoint p...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Kehn K,Deng L,de la Fuente C,Strouss K,Wu K,Maddukuri A,Baylor S,Rufner R,Pumfery A,Bottazzi ME,Kashanchi F

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Upon HIV entry into target cells, viral cores are released and rearranged into reverse transcription complexes (RTCs), which support reverse transcription and also protect and transport viral cDNA to the site of integration. RTCs are composed of viral and cellular proteins that originate from both target and...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Santos S,Obukhov Y,Nekhai S,Bukrinsky M,Iordanskiy S

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies suggest that active selection limits the number of HIV-1 variants acquired by a newly infected individual from the diverse variants circulating in the transmitting partner. We compared HIV-1 envelopes from 9 newly infected subjects and their linked transmitting partner to explore potential m...

journal_title：Retrovirology

authors： Pena-Cruz V,Etemad B,Chatziandreou N,Nyein PH,Stock S,Reynolds SJ,Laeyendecker O,Gray RH,Serwadda D,Lee SJ,Quinn TC,Sagar M

更新日期：2013-12-26 00:00:00