A novel RNA motif that binds efficiently and specifically to the Tat protein of HIV and inhibits the trans-activation by Tat of transcription in vitro and in vivo

Genes to Cells

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 371-388

  Yamamoto, Rika ^a,b   Katahira, Masato ^c   Nishikawa, Satoshi ^a   Baba, Tadashi ^b   Taira, Kazunari ^a,d   Kumar, Penmetcha K R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DELETION MUTANT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2;

EID: 0034051357     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2000.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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