Alice Baek, Ga-Eun Lee, Sarah Golconda, Asif Rayhan, Anastasios A Manganaris, Shuliang Chen, Nagaraja Tirumuru, Hannah Yu, Shihyoung Kim, Christopher Kimmel, Olivier Zablocki, Matthew B Sullivan, Balasubrahmanyam Addepalli, Li Wu, Sanggu Kim
Although the significance of chemical modifications on RNA is acknowledged, the evolutionary benefits and specific roles in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) replication remain elusive. Most studies have provided only population-averaged values of modifications for fragmented RNAs at low resolution and have relied on indirect analyses of phenotypic effects by perturbing host effectors. Here we analysed chemical modifications on HIV-1 RNAs at the full-length, single RNA level and nucleotide resolution using direct RNA sequencing methods...
April 11, 2024: Nature Microbiology