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. 2022 Dec 21;15(1):32. doi: 10.3390/v15010032

Table 1.

Determinants of integration site selection of MLV and HIV-1. Bromodomain (BD); bromodomain and extra terminal motif (BET); catalytical core domain (CCD); cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor 6 (CPSF6); C-terminal domain (CTD); extra-terminal domain (ET); hepatoma-derived growth factor-related protein 2 (HRP2); integrase-binding domain (IBD); integrase (IN); lens epithelium-derived growth factor (LEDGF/p75); nucleoporin 153 (Nup153); pre-integration complex (PIC); ran–binding protein 2 (RanBP2); transportin SR2 (TRN-SR2). (Table created with Biorender.com on 17 December 2022).

Host Factors and Viral Proteins Involved in Nuclear Import and/or
MLV Integration Site Selection
Host Factor Viral Protein Description References
p12 / Tether of PIC to mitotic chromosomes [46,47,48,49,50]
BET / BD binds viral IN, ET binds chromatin [28,29,30,31,32,33,34,51,52,53,54,55,56,57]
/ IN CCD and CTD bind target DNA [30,51,53,58,59]
Host Factors and Viral Proteins Involved in Nuclear Import and/or HIV-1
Integration Site Selection
Host Factor Viral Protein Description References
TRN–SR2 / Karyopherin involved in nuclear import [60]
RanBP2 / Nuclear pore protein involved in Nuclear import [60]
Nup153 / Karyopherin involved in nuclear import [61,62]
CPSF6 / Nuclear import factor binding to HIV-1 capsid [63,64,65,66,67]
LEDGF/p75 / IBD binds viral IN,
PWWP domain binds H3K36me2/3
[22,23,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,45,52,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87]
HRP2 / IBD binds viral IN,
PWWP domain binds H3K36me2/3
[74]
/ IN CCD and CTD bind target DNA [88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98]