bovine leukemia provirus: evidence of presence of part of gag gene inseminal plasma of naturally infected bullsit is of critical importance to understand the modalities of blv presence in semen, especially with regard to artificial insemination (ai). presence of bovine leukemia provirus was demonstrated in fresh and frozen semen samples by researchers. in this study paired blood and semen sampl...

Avian retroviruses (with the notable exception of spleen necrosis virus) express their protease (PR) both in their gag and their gag-pol polyprotein precursors, in contrast to other retroviruses, notably, the mammalian retroviruses, in which PR is encoded in the gag-pol polyprotein or in a separate reading frame as a gag-pro product. The consequence is that the avian PR is expressed in stoichio...

EditorÐAs a result of the increased prevalence of nvCJD within the UK population, there has been concern about the theoretical risk of transfer of prions during tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Disposable instruments were widely introduced in 2001, but concerns regarding the safety of these instruments led to the return to reusable instruments in England. In Scotland, the use of disposable equi...

In polarized T cells, HIV-1 Gag localizes to a rear-end protrusion known as the uropod in a multimerization-dependent manner. Gag-laden uropods participate in formation of virological synapses, intercellular contact structures that play a key role in cell-to-cell HIV-1 transmission. Our previous observations suggest that Gag associates with uropod-directed microdomains (UDMs) that eventually co...

Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) budding requires an interaction of the L domain within the p2b region of Gag with cellular Nedd4-family E3 ubiquitin protein ligases. Members of our laboratories previously demonstrated that overexpression of a fragment of the chicken Nedd4-like protein (LDI-1 WW) inhibits Gag release in a dominant-negative manner (A. Kikonyogo, F. Bouamr, M. L. Vana, Y. Xiang, A. Aiyar...

RNA appears to be required for the assembly of retroviruses. This is likely due to binding of RNA by multiple Gags, which in turn organizes and stabilizes the Gag-Gag interactions that form the virion. While the nucleocapsid (NC) domain is the most conspicuous RNA-binding region of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Gag polyprotein, we have previously shown that NC is not strictly ...

29 In polarized T cells, HIV-1 Gag localizes to a rear end protrusion known as the uropod in 30 a multimerization-dependent manner. Gag-laden uropods participate in formation of virological 31 synapses, an intercellular contact structure that plays a key role in cell-to-cell HIV-1 32 transmission. Our previous observations suggest that Gag associates with uropod-directed 33 microdomains (UDMs) ...

HIV-1 particle assembly is driven by the structural protein Gag. Gag binds to and multimerizes on the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane, eventually resulting in formation of spherical particles. During virus spread among T cells, Gag accumulates to the plasma membrane domain that, together with target cell membrane, forms a cell junction known as the virological synapse. While Gag associatio...

HIV-1 Gag selects and packages a dimeric, unspliced viral RNA in the context of a large excess of cytosolic human RNAs. As Gag assembles on the plasma membrane, the HIV-1 genome is enriched relative to cellular RNAs by an unknown mechanism. We used a minimal system consisting of purified RNAs, recombinant HIV-1 Gag and giant unilamellar vesicles to recapitulate the selective packaging of the 5'...