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Judith G. Levin is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on virology, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass HIV research and treatment, HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Recent published works include:

  • Show your cap or be packaged into HIV-1 (2021) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Genetics of Retrovirus Replication (2023) - Viruses

Judith G. Levin has collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Alan Rein and Karin Musier-Forsyth. These collaborations reflect a focus on molecular and virological research related to retroviruses.

Their work appears prominently in the following scientific venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Viruses

Best Publications

  • Nucleic-acid-chaperone activity of retroviral nucleocapsid proteins: significance for viral replication.

    Alan Rein;Louis E Henderson;Judith G Levin

  • Nucleic acid chaperone activity of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein: critical role in reverse transcription and molecular mechanism.

    Judith G. Levin;Jianhui Guo;Ioulia F Rouzina;Karin Musier-Forsyth

  • Deaminase-independent inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcription by APOBEC3G

    Yasumasa Iwatani;Denise S.B. Chan;F. Wang;Kristen Stewart Maynard

  • Biochemical activities of highly purified, catalytically active human APOBEC3G: correlation with antiviral effect.

    Yasumasa Iwatani;Hiroaki Takeuchi;Klaus Strebel;Judith G. Levin

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein promotes efficient strand transfer and specific viral DNA synthesis by inhibiting TAR-dependent self-priming from minus-strand strong-stop DNA.

    Jianhui Guo;Louis E. Henderson;Julian Bess;Bradley Kane

  • Zinc finger structures in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein facilitate efficient minus- and plus-strand transfer.

    Jianhui Guo;Tiyun Wu;Jada Anderson;Bradley F. Kane

  • HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein induces "maturation" of dimeric retroviral RNA in vitro

    Ya-Xiong Feng;Terry D. Copeland;Louis E. Henderson;Robert J. Gorelick

  • Deficiency of 60 to 70S RNA in Murine Leukemia Virus Particles Assembled in Cells Treated with Actinomycin D

    Judith G. Levin;Philip M. Grimley;Janet M. Ramseur;Irene K. Berezesky

  • Role of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein in HIV-1 reverse transcription.

    Judith G Levin;Mithun Mitra;Anjali Mascarenhas;Karin Musier-Forsyth

  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein reduces reverse transcriptase pausing at a secondary structure near the murine leukemia virus polypurine tract.

    W Wu;L E Henderson;T D Copeland;R J Gorelick

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 N-Terminal Capsid Mutants That Exhibit Aberrant Core Morphology and Are Blocked in Initiation of Reverse Transcription in Infected Cells

    Shixing Tang;Tsutomu Murakami;Beth E. Agresta;Stephen Campbell

  • NMR structure of human restriction factor APOBEC3A reveals substrate binding and enzyme specificity.

    In-Ja L. Byeon;Jinwoo Ahn;Mithun Mitra;Chang-Hyeock Byeon

  • Translational suppression in retroviral gene expression.

    Dolph L. Hatfield;Judith G. Levin;Alan Rein;Stephen Oroszlan

  • Synthesis of murine leukemia virus proteins associated with virions assembled in actinomycin D-treated cells: evidence for persistence of viral messenger RNA

    Judith G. Levin;Mary Jan Rosenak

  • THE IN VITRO FORMATION OF A DNA-RIBOSOME COMPLEX.

    R. Byrne;J. G. Levin;H. A. Bladen;M. W. Nirenberg

  • Membrane-Associated Replication Complex in Arbovirus Infection

    Robert M. Friedman;Judith G. Levin;Philip M. Grimley;Irene K. Berezesky

  • Specific membranous structures associated with the replication of group A arboviruses.

    Philip M. Grimley;Judith G. Levin;Irene K. Berezesky;Robert M. Friedman

  • Subtle alterations of the native zinc finger structures have dramatic effects on the nucleic acid chaperone activity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein.

    Jianhui Guo;Tiyun Wu;Bradley F. Kane;Donald G. Johnson

  • Monomeric APOBEC3G Is Catalytically Active and Has Antiviral Activity

    Sandrine Opi;Hiroaki Takeuchi;Sandra Kao;Mohammad A. Khan

  • Bipartite signal for read-through suppression in murine leukemia virus mRNA: an eight-nucleotide purine-rich sequence immediately downstream of the gag termination codon followed by an RNA pseudoknot.

    Ya-Xiong Feng;Hang Yuan;A. Rein;J. G. Levin

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Rein
Alan Rein National Institutes of Health
Karin Musier-Forsyth
Karin Musier-Forsyth The Ohio State University
Robert J. Gorelick
Robert J. Gorelick National Institutes of Health
Louis E. Henderson
Louis E. Henderson Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Angela M. Gronenborn
Angela M. Gronenborn University of Pittsburgh
Marshall W. Nirenberg
Marshall W. Nirenberg National Institutes of Health
Stephen Oroszlan
Stephen Oroszlan National Institutes of Health
Eric O. Freed
Eric O. Freed National Institutes of Health
Robert M. Friedman
Robert M. Friedman Oregon Health & Science University
Terry D. Copeland
Terry D. Copeland National Institutes of Health

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