Hydrogen-bonding contacts in the major groove are required for human immunodeficiency virus type-1 tat protein recognition of TAR RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 111-123

  Hamy, Francçois ^a   Asseline, Ulysse ^a   Grasby, Jane ^a   Iwai, Shigenori ^a   Pritchard, Clare ^a   Slim, George ^a   Butler, P Jonathan G ^a   Karn, Jonathan ^a   Gait, Michael J ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV 1); RNA protein interactions; TAR RNA structure; tat protein; trans activation

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HYDROGEN BONDING; IN VITRO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0027509632     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1993.1129     Document Type: Article

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