Comparative analysis of five highly conserved target sites within the HIV-1 RNA for their susceptibility to hammerhead ribozyme-mediated cleavage in vitro and in vivo

Antisense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 229-235

  Ramezani, Ali ^a   Joshi, Sadhna ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; GAG PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LYMPHOID CELL LINE; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE; ONCOVIRINAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0029812227     PISSN: 10872906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/oli.1.1996.6.229     Document Type: Article

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