Probing interactions between HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and its DNA substrate with backbone-modified nucleotides

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-116

  Marx, Andreas ^a   Spichty, Martin ^a   Amacker, Mario ^b   Schwitter, Urs ^a   Hübscher, Ulrich ^b   Bickle, Thomas A ^a   Maga, Giovanni ^c   Giese, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

4' acylated thymidine triphosphate; DNA polymerase; DNA protein interaction; HIV 1 reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0033080085     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(99)80007-6     Document Type: Article

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