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ArticleeLife2024

Pharmacologic hyperstabilisation of the HIV-1 capsid lattice induces capsid failure.

K M Rifat Faysal, James C Walsh, Nadine Renner, Chantal L Márquez, Vaibhav B Shah, Andrew J Tuckwell, Michelle P Christie, Michael W Parker, Stuart G Turville, Greg J Towers and 3 more

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mechanisms of HIV-1 assembly, release and maturation.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026
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  3. Lenacapavir binding to immature Gag induces giant virions and causes protease-dependent inhibition of viral release.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  12. Mechanistic insights into lenacapavir-induced off-pathway HIV-1 capsid assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

K M Rifat Faysal *EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
James C Walsh *EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Nadine Renner *MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Chantal L Márquez *EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Vaibhav B ShahEMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Andrew J TuckwellEMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.
Michelle P ChristieDepartment of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Michael W ParkerDepartment of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3101-1138
Stuart G TurvilleThe Kirby Institute, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-5343
Greg J TowersDivision of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7707-0264
Leo C JamesMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2131-0334
David A JacquesEMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6426-4510
Till BöckingEMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science, School of Biomedical Sciences, UNSW, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-3122

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S023380/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 214344/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HIV-1 capsid has emerged as a tractable target for antiretroviral therapy. Lenacapavir, developed by Gilead Sciences, is the first capsid-targeting drug approved for medical use. Here, we investigate the effect of lenacapavir on HIV capsid stability and uncoating. We employ a single particle approach that simultaneously measures capsid content release and lattice persistence. We demonstrate that lenacapavir's potent antiviral activity is predominantly due to lethal hyperstabilisation of the capsid lattice and resultant loss of compartmentalisation. This study highlights that disrupting capsid metastability is a powerful strategy for the development of novel antivirals.

Indexed as

Anti-HIV AgentsHIV-1HIV InfectionsCapsidCapsid ProteinsHumansAnti-HIV AgentsCapsid Proteinscapsiddrug mechanism of actionHIV-1infectious diseasemicrobiologymolecular biophysicsnonestructural biology

Identifiers

PMID38347802
PMCPMC10863983

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