Phosphorothioate hammerhead ribozymes targeting a conserved sequence in the V3 loop region inhibit HIV-1 entry

Antisense and Nucleic Acid Drug Development

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 441-450

  Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Iwatani, Yasumasa ^a   Shimayama, Takashi ^b   Yamada, Ryo ^b,c   Koito, Atsushi ^d   Xu, Younong ^a   Sakai, Hiroyuki ^a   Uchiyama, Takashi ^a   Hattori, Toshio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Showa Denko Materials Co   (Japan)

^c JMS Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; DNA; LUCIFERASE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; PLASMID VECTOR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RIBOZYME; RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHIMERA; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REPORTER GENE; RNA CLEAVAGE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032426151     PISSN: 10872906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/oli.1.1998.8.441     Document Type: Article

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