Structural basis of the highly efficient trapping of the HIV Tat protein by an RNA aptamer

Structure

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 533-545

  Matsugami, Akimasa ^a   Kobayashi, Shin Ichiro ^a   Ouhashi, Kiyoshi ^a   Uesugi, Seiichi ^a   Yamamoto, Rika ^b,c   Taira, Kazunari ^b,c   Nishikawa, Satoshi ^b   Kumar, Penmetcha K R ^b   Katahira, Masato ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aptamer; Decoy; HIV Tat; RNA structure; RNA protein interaction

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMIDE; APTAMER; ARGININE; ARGININE DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE; RNA; TAT DERIVED ARGININE RICH PEPTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URACIL; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0037904751     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(03)00069-8     Document Type: Article

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