VIROLOGY: HIV--Breaking the Rules for Nuclear Entry

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Science 2 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5544, pp. 1016 - 1017
DOI: 10.1126/science.1066729

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VIROLOGY:
HIV--Breaking the Rules for Nuclear Entry

Miriam Segura-Totten and Katherine L. Wilson

How does human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) gain access to the carefully guarded nucleus of the host cell? In a Perspective, Segura-Totten and Wilson elaborate on new findings (de Noronha et al.) showing that the HIV protein Vpr is crucial for causing transient herniations in the host cell nuclear envelope. These ruptures are sufficient to enable the preintegration complexes of invading virions to enter the nucleus and to integrate with host cell DNA.

The authors are in the Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. E-mail: klwilson{at}jhmi.edu

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REPORTS Dynamic Disruptions in Nuclear Envelope Architecture and Integrity Induced by HIV-1 Vpr: Carlos M. C. de Noronha, Michael P. Sherman, Harrison W. Lin, Marielle V. Cavrois, Robert D. Moir, Robert D. Goldman, and Warner C. Greene (2 November 2001)
Science 294 (5544), 1105. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063957]
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