Retroviral integration into nucleosomes through DNA looping and sliding along the histone octamer.
Wilson, M.D., Renault, L., Maskell, D.P., Ghoneim, M., Pye, V.E., Nans, A., Rueda, D.S., Cherepanov, P., Costa, A.(2019) Nat Commun 10: 4189-4189
- PubMed: 31519882 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12007-w
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6R0C, 6RNY - PubMed Abstract: 
Retroviral integrase can efficiently utilise nucleosomes for insertion of the reverse-transcribed viral DNA. In face of the structural constraints imposed by the nucleosomal structure, integrase gains access to the scissile phosphodiester bonds by lifting DNA off the histone octamer at the site of integration ...