HIV-1 Rev is a small regulatory protein that mediates the nuclear export of viral mRNAs, an essential step in the HIV replication cycle. In this process Rev oligomerizes in association with a highly structured RNA motif, the Rev response element. Crystallographic studies of Rev have been hampered by the protein's tendency to aggregate, but Rev has now been found to form a stable soluble equimol...

HIV-1 Rev and the Rev response element (RRE) enable a critical step in the viral replication cycle by facilitating the nuclear export of intron-containing mRNAs, yet their activities have rarely been analyzed in natural infections. This study characterized their genetic and functional variation in a small cohort of HIV-infected individuals. Multiple Rev and RRE sequences were obtained using sin...

Nup358 (also known as RanBP2), a component of the cytoplasmic filaments of the nuclear pore complex, has been implicated in various nucleocytoplasmic transport pathways. Here, we identify Nup358 as an important factor for transportin-mediated nuclear import. Depletion of Nup358 resulted in a strong inhibition of nuclear import of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Rev protein. HIV-...

Replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 requires the functional expression in trans of the virally encoded rev gene product (previously called art/trs). Here we demonstrate that this protein can be metabolically labeled with 32Pi. The phosphate receptor in the rev protein is shown to be exclusively serine. Treatment of rev-expressing cells with phorbol ester, a specific activator of ...

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HIV-1's Rev protein forms a homo-oligomeric adaptor complex linking viral RNAs to the cellular CRM1/Ran-GTP nuclear export machinery through the activity of Rev's prototypical leucine-rich nuclear export signal (NES). In this study, we used a functional fluorescently tagged Rev fusion protein as a platform to study the effects of modulating Rev NES identity, number, position, or strength on Rev...

Human immunodeficiency virus Rev facilitates the cytoplasmic accumulation of viral RNAs that contain a Rev binding site. A human Rev-interacting protein (hRIP) was originally identified based on its ability to interact with the Rev nuclear export signal (NES) in yeast two-hybrid assays. To date, however, the function of hRIP and a role for hRIP in Rev-directed RNA export have remained elusive. ...

The HIV-1 Rev protein is an essential nuclear regulatory viral protein. Rev mutants that are able to block wild-type (WT) Rev activity in trans have been reported and used in antiviral approaches. Not only nuclear but also cytoplasmic Rev mutants were described and suspected to be transdominant by retaining WT Rev in the cytoplasm. To investigate their potential for cytoplasmic retention, we st...