Hidden messages in the nef gene of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 suggest a novel RNA secondary structure

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 4192-4200

  Peleg, Ofer ^a   Trifonov, Edward N ^a   Bolshoy, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NEF PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; URACIL; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS GENOME; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN;

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

ALGORITHMS; DNA, VIRAL; GENE PRODUCTS, NEF; HIV-1; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0242349119     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg454     Document Type: Article

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