G-quartets direct assembly of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein along single-stranded DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 5754-5763

  Lyonnais, Sébastien ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^b   Mergny, Jean Louis ^c   Le Cam, Eric ^a   Mirambeau, Gilles ^a  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THYMINE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; CAPSID PROTEIN; DNA; GAG PROTEIN; P55 GAG PRECURSOR PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; QUADRUPLEX DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAPSID PROTEINS; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GUANINE; HIV-1; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0142009639     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg716     Document Type: Article

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