A characteristic bent conformation of RNA pseudoknots promotes - 1. Frameshifting during translation of retroviral RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 260, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 479-483

  Chen, Xiaoying ^a,b   Kang, Hunseung ^a   Shen, Ling X ^a,c   Chamorro, Mario ^d   Varmus, Harold E ^d   Tinoco Jr , Ignacio ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Frameshifting; NMR; Pseudoknot; Retroviruses; RNA

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RETROVIRUS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION;

FELIDAE; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS; ONCOVIRINAE; SIMIAE; SIMIAN RETROVIRUS; TUMOR VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030602904     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0415     Document Type: Editorial

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