Using pyrrolo-deoxycytosine to probe RNA/DNA hybrids containing the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 3′ polypurine tract

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1539-1547

  Dash, Chandravanu ^a   Rausch, Jason W ^a   Le Grice, Stuart F J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DEOXYCYTIDINE PHOSPHATE; DNA BASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE; PYRROLODEOXYCYTOSINE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA; ADENINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; HETERODUPLEX; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLO DEOXYCYTOSINE; PYRROLO-DEOXYCYTOSINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; STEADY STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BASE PAIRING; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

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

ADENINE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSINE; DNA, VIRAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; GUANINE; HIV-1; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; PURINES; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 2542572539     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh307     Document Type: Article

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