Transfer of Tat and release of TAR RNA during the activation of the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 transcription elongation complex

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5260-5272

  Keen, Nicholas J ^a,b   Churcher, Mark J ^a   Karn, Jonathan ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HIV; RNA polymerase II; TAR RNA; Tat; Transcriptional elongation

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HIV-1; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0030864512     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.17.5260     Document Type: Article

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