Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

HIV-1 replication complexes accumulate in nuclear speckles and integrate into speckle-associated genomic domains

  • Ashwanth C. Francis,
  • Mariana Marin,
  • Parmit K. Singh,
  • Vasudevan Achuthan,
  • Mathew J. Prellberg,
  • Kristina Palermino-Rowland,
  • Shuiyun Lan,
  • Philip R. Tedbury,
  • Stefan G. Sarafianos,
  • Alan N. Engelman,
  • Gregory B. Melikyan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17256-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Early steps of HIV infection of primary human cells remain poorly understood. Here, Francis et al. show that early viral replication complexes accumulate within nuclear speckles, in reliance on viral capsid/host CPSF6 interactions, and preferentially integrate in speckle-associated genomic domains.