Evidence for a base triple in the free HIV-1 TAR RNA

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 412-423

  Huthoff, Hendrik ^a   Girard, Frederic ^b   Wijmenga, Sybren S ^b   Berkhout, Ben ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Base triple; HIV 1; Riboswitch; TAR; Tertiary structure

Indexed keywords

TAR RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BASE TRIPLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSACTIVATION;

GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 1242341515     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5161304     Document Type: Article

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