Crystal structure of the HIV-1 integrase catalytic core and C-terminal domains: A model for viral DNA binding
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, Julian C.-H.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Insolubility of full-length HIV-1 integrase (IN) limited previous structure analyses to individual domains. By introducing five point mutations, we engineered a more soluble IN that allowed us to generate multidomain HIV-1 IN crystals. The first multidomain HIV-1 IN structure is reported. It incorporates the catalytic core and C-terminal domains (residues 52–288). The structure resolved to 2.8 Å is a Y-shaped dimer. Within the dimer, the catalytic core domains form the only dimer interface, and the C-terminal domains are located 55 Å apart. A 26-aa α-helix, α6, links the C-terminal domain to the catalytic core. A kink in one of the two α6 helices occurs near a known proteolytic site, suggesting that it may act as a flexible elbow to reorient the domains during the integration process. Two proteins that bind DNA in a sequence-independent manner are structurally homologous to the HIV-1 IN C-terminal domain, suggesting a similar protein–DNA interaction in which the IN C-terminal domain may serve to bind, bend, and orient viral DNA during integration. A strip of positively charged amino acids contributed by both monomers emerges from each active site of the dimer, suggesting a minimally dimeric platform for binding each viral DNA end. The crystal structure of the isolated catalytic core domain (residues 52–210), independently determined at 1.6-Å resolution, is identical to the core domain within the two-domain 52–288 structure.
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