Capsid-CPSF6 interaction: Master regulator of nuclear HIV-1 positioning and integration.

Vasudevan Achuthan,Jill M. Perreira,J. Ahn,A. Brass,A. Engelman

Published 2019 in Journal of life sciences

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HIV-1 integration favors active chromatin, which is primarily mediated through interactions between the viral capsid and integrase proteins with host factors cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor 6 (CPSF6) and lens epithelium-derived growth factor/p75, respectively. Previously published image-based studies had suggested that HIV-1 prefers to integrate into chromatin that associates spatially with the nuclear periphery. Here, we re-evaluated previously reported HIV-1 nuclear distance measures across studies and show that HIV-1 prefers peri-nuclear and mid-nuclear zones similarly, with a common preference between studies mapping to the boundary between these two radial areas. We also discuss emerging roles for the capsid-CPSF6 interaction in facilitating HIV-1 pre-integration complex nuclear import and subsequent intranuclear trafficking to preferred sites of viral DNA integration.

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