Mutations of basic amino acids of NCp7 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 affect RNA binding in vitro

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 771-777

  Schmalzbauer, Edith ^a,b   Strack, Bettina ^a   Dannull, Jens ^a,c   Guehmann, Stephan ^a,b   Moelling, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

EID: 0030028806     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.2.771-777.1996     Document Type: Article

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