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Biomolecular Condensates: Insights Into Early And Late Steps Of The Hiv-1 Replication Cycle, Francesca Di Nunzio, Vladimir N. Uversky, Andrew J. Mouland

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

A rapidly evolving understanding of phase separation in the biological and physical sciences has led to the redefining of virus-engineered replication compartments in many viruses with RNA genomes. Condensation of viral, host and genomic and subgenomic RNAs can take place to evade the innate immunity response and to help viral replication. Divergent viruses prompt liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) to invade the host cell. During HIV replication there are several steps involving LLPS. In this review, we characterize the ability of individual viral and host partners that assemble into biomolecular condensates (BMCs). Of note, bioinformatic analyses predict models of phase separation …