Structure of the intact stem and bulge of HIV-1 Ψ-RNA stem-loop SL1

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 529-542

  Lawrence, Dana C ^a   Stover, Carrie C ^a   Noznitsky, Jennifer ^a   Wu, Zhengrong ^b   Summers, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimer initiation site (DIS); Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV 1); NMR structure; Ribonucleic acid (RNA)

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DIMER; GUANINE; MONOMER; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA PACKAGING; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0037436349     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01305-0     Document Type: Article

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