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SUBMITTER: Ha HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC30659 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ha H C HC Juluri K K Zhou Y Y Leung S S Hermankova M M Snyder S H SH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20010306 6
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1; EC ) is an abundant nuclear enzyme, activated by DNA strand breaks to attach up to 200 ADP-ribose groups to nuclear proteins. As retroviral infection requires integrase-catalyzed DNA strand breaks, we examined infection of pseudotyped HIV type I in fibroblasts from mice with a targeted deletion of PARP-1. Viral infection is almost totally abolished in PARP-1 knockout fibroblasts. This protection from infection reflects prevention of viral integration into t ...[more]