Topoisomerase I dissociates human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase from genomic RNAs.
Both HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and topoisomerase I bind to structural RNAs and they cooperate to synthesize cDNA during the replication of HIV-1. In this study, we find that human topoisomerase I exclusively dissociated HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, which strongly binds to structural RNAs. Meanwhile, topoisomerase I did not dissociate either HIV-1 nucleocapsid proteins or murine leukemia virus RT which was bound to RNA. We propose that human topoisomerase I may regulate the binding of RT to RNAs and play a pivotal role in HIV-1 replication.
Takahashi
Hidehiro
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Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. htakahas@nih.go.jp
Sawa
Hirofumi
H
Hasegawa
Hideki
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Nagashima
Kazuo
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Sata
Tetsutaro
T
Kurata
Takeshi
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D015683:Gene Products, gag; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D020038:RNA, Spliced Leader; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D012313:RNA; D054303:HIV Reverse Transcriptase; D012194:RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; D004264:DNA Topoisomerases, Type I