Cell-free assays reveal that the HIV-1 capsid protects reverse transcripts from cGAS immune sensing

• Tiana M. Scott ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiana M. Scott, Lydia M. Arnold

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Lydia M. Arnold ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiana M. Scott, Lydia M. Arnold

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Jordan A. Powers,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Delaney A. McCann,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Ana B. Rowe,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Devin E. Christensen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Miguel J. Pereira,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Wen Zhou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

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• Rachel M. Torrez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Janet H. Iwasa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Philip J. Kranzusch,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Wesley I. Sundquist,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Jarrod S. Johnson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jarrod.johnson@path.utah.edu

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7355-5240

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