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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alan Engelman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans various fields, primarily focusing on Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broad disciplines, Engelman specializes in subfields such as Virology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Ecology.

The main topics of Engelman's work include HIV Research and Treatment, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, RNA Research and Splicing, Biochemical and Molecular Research, Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery.

Engelman has contributed to multiple recent publications with notable papers including:

  • Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1 (2020, Nature)
  • Structural and mechanistic bases for a potent HIV-1 capsid inhibitor (2020, Science)
  • HIV-1 replication complexes accumulate in nuclear speckles and integrate into speckle-associated genomic domains (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Structure and function of retroviral integrase (2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • Structural basis of second-generation HIV integrase inhibitor action and viral resistance (2020, Science)

Frequent co-authors in Engelman's research include Parmit K. Singh, Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, Wen Li, Gregory J. Bedwell, and Sooin Jang.

The scientist has published repeatedly in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mBio, Nucleic Acids Research, Viruses, and Nature Communications. These venues collectively represent much of Engelman's scholarly contributions across the years.

In recognition of scientific achievements, Engelman was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Identification of Host Proteins Required for HIV Infection Through a Functional Genomic Screen

    Abraham L. Brass;Derek M. Dykxhoorn;Yair Benita;Nan Yan

  • Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of HIV-1 integrase: similarity to other polynucleotidyl transferases.

    Fred Dyda;Alison B. Hickman;Timothy M. Jenkins;Alan Engelman

  • HIV-1 DNA integration: Mechanism of viral DNA cleavage and DNA strand transfer

    Alan Engelman;Kiyoshi Mizuuchi;Robert Craigie

  • Retroviral intasome assembly and inhibition of DNA strand transfer

    Stephen Hare;Saumya Shree Gupta;Saumya Shree Gupta;Eugene Valkov;Eugene Valkov;Alan N Engelman

  • Identification of conserved amino acid residues critical for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase function in vitro.

    A Engelman;R Craigie

  • The structural biology of HIV-1: mechanistic and therapeutic insights.

    Alan Engelman;Peter Cherepanov

  • LEDGF/p75 functions downstream from preintegration complex formation to effect gene-specific HIV-1 integration

    Ming-Chieh Shun;Nidhanapati K. Raghavendra;Nick Vandegraaff;Janet E. Daigle

  • Multiple effects of mutations in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase on viral replication.

    A Engelman;G Englund;J M Orenstein;M A Martin

  • Flexible Use of Nuclear Import Pathways by HIV-1

    KyeongEun Lee;Zandrea Ambrose;Thomas D. Martin;Ilker Oztop

  • Haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells from human pluripotent stem cells

    Ryohichi Sugimura;Deepak Kumar Jha;Areum Han;Clara Soria-Valles

  • Structural basis for the recognition between HIV-1 integrase and transcriptional coactivator p75.

    Peter Cherepanov;Andre L. B. Ambrosio;Shaila Rahman;Tom Ellenberger

  • Domains of the integrase protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 responsible for polynucleotidyl transfer and zinc binding.

    Frederic D. Bushman;Alan Engelman;Ira Palmer;Paul Wingfield

  • Identification of discrete functional domains of HIV-1 integrase and their organization within an active multimeric complex.

    A Engelman;F D Bushman;R Craigie

  • Integrase-mediated spacer acquisition during CRISPR–Cas adaptive immunity

    James K. Nuñez;Amy S. Y. Lee;Alan Engelman;Jennifer A. Doudna

  • Solution structure of the DNA binding domain of HIV-1 integrase.

    P.J Lodi;J.A Ernst;J Kuszewski;A.B Hickman

  • A Soluble Active Mutant of HIV-1 Integrase INVOLVEMENT OF BOTH THE CORE AND CARBOXYL-TERMINAL DOMAINS IN MULTIMERIZATION

    Timothy M. Jenkins;Alan Engelman;Rodolfo Ghirlando;Robert Craigie

  • The core and carboxyl-terminal domains of the integrase protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 each contribute to nonspecific DNA binding.

    A Engelman;A B Hickman;R Craigie

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 cDNAs produced in the presence of APOBEC3G exhibit defects in plus-strand DNA transfer and integration

    Jean L. Mbisa;Rebekah Barr;James A. Thomas;Nick Vandegraaff

  • Identification of an evolutionarily conserved domain in human lens epithelium-derived growth factor/transcriptional co-activator p75 (LEDGF/p75) that binds HIV-1 integrase.

    Peter Cherepanov;Eric Devroe;Pamela A. Silver;Alan Engelman

  • Critical contacts between HIV-1 integrase and viral DNA identified by structure-based analysis and photo-crosslinking.

    Timothy M. Jenkins;Dominic Esposito;Alan Engelman;Robert Craigie

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Cherepanov
Peter Cherepanov The Francis Crick Institute
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia University of Colorado Denver
Robert Craigie
Robert Craigie National Institutes of Health
Christopher Aiken
Christopher Aiken Vanderbilt University Medical Center
James R. Fuchs
James R. Fuchs The Ohio State University
Pamela A. Silver
Pamela A. Silver Harvard University
Vineet N. KewalRamani
Vineet N. KewalRamani National Institutes of Health
Joseph Sodroski
Joseph Sodroski Harvard Medical School
Eric M. Poeschla
Eric M. Poeschla University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Judy Lieberman
Judy Lieberman Boston Children's Hospital

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