An Unusual Topological Structure of the HIV-1 Rev Response Element

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• 作者：Xianyang Fang ; Jinbu Wang ; Ina?P. O¡¯Carroll ; Michelle Mitchell ; Xiaobing Zuo ; Yi Wang ; Ping Yu ; Yu Liu ; Jason?W. Rausch ; Marzena?A. Dyba ; J?rgen Kjems ; Charles?D. Schwieters ; Soenke Seifert ; R ; all?E. Winans ; Norman?R. Watts ; Stephen?J. Stahl ; Paul?T. Wingfield ; R.?Andrew Byrd ; Stuart?F.J. Le?Grice ; Alan Rein ; et al.
• 刊名：Cell
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：24 October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：155
• 期：3
• 页码：594-605
• 全文大小：3814 K

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Summary

Nuclear export of unspliced and singly spliced viral mRNA is a critical step in the HIV life cycle. The structural basis by which the virus selects its own mRNA among more abundant host cellular RNAs for export has been a mystery for more than 25 years. Here, we describe an unusual topological structure that the virus uses to recognize its own mRNA. The viral Rev response element (RRE) adopts an ¡°A¡±-like structure in which the two legs constitute two tracks of binding sites for the viral Rev protein and position the two primary known Rev-binding sites ¡«55?? apart, matching the distance between the two RNA-binding motifs in the Rev dimer. Both the legs of the ¡°A¡± and the separation between them are required for optimal RRE function. This structure accounts for the specificity of Rev for the RRE and thus the specific recognition of the viral RNA.