Structural basis for functional tetramerization of lentiviral integrase.

Experimental evidence suggests that a tetramer of integrase (IN) is the protagonist of the concerted strand transfer reaction, whereby both ends of retroviral DNA are inserted into a host cell chromosome. Herein we present two crystal structures containing the N-terminal and the catalytic core domai...

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Main Authors: Stephen Hare, Francesca Di Nunzio, Alfred Labeja, Jimin Wang, Alan Engelman, Peter Cherepanov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-07-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2705190?pdf=render