ALIX is recruited temporarily into HIV-1 budding sites at the end of gag assembly.

Polymerization of Gag on the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane drives the assembly of Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1). Gag recruits components of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) to facilitate membrane fission and virion release. ESCRT assembly is initiated by...

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Main Authors: Pei-I Ku, Mourad Bendjennat, Jeff Ballew, Michael B Landesman, Saveez Saffarian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4023924?pdf=render