Lesbats, P, Serrao, E, Maskell, DP et al. (5 more authors) (2017) Structural basis for spumavirus GAG tethering to chromatin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (21). pp. 5509-5514. ISSN 0027-8424
Abstract
The interactions between a retrovirus and host cell chromatin that underlie integration and provirus expression are poorly understood. The prototype foamy virus (PFV) structural protein GAG associates with chromosomes via a chromatin-binding sequence (CBS) located within its C-terminal region. Here, we show that the PFV CBS is essential and sufficient for a direct interaction with nucleosomes and present a crystal structure of the CBS bound to a mononucleosome. The CBS interacts with the histone octamer, engaging the H2A–H2B acidic patch in a manner similar to other acidic patch-binding proteins such as herpesvirus latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA). Substitutions of the invariant arginine anchor residue in GAG result in global redistribution of PFV and macaque simian foamy virus (SFVmac) integration sites toward centromeres, dampening the resulting proviral expression without affecting the overall efficiency of integration. Our findings underscore the importance of retroviral structural proteins for integration site selection and the avoidance of genomic junkyards.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | retrovirus; integration; nucleosome; chromatin-binding |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2017 14:14 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2019 12:35 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | National Academy of the Sciences |
Identification Number: | 10.1073/pnas.1621159114 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117790 |