'Binding, bending and bonding': Polypurine tract-primed initiation of plus-strand DNA synthesis in human immunodeficiency virus

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1752-1766

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

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

2,4 difluoro 5 methylbenzene; 2 fluoro 4 methylbenzene; central polypurine tract; cPPT; D; F; HIV; human immunodeficiency virus; Mo MLV; Moloney murine leukemia virus; polypurine tract; PPT; Retrovirus; reverse transcriptase; ribonuclease H; RNase H; RT

Indexed keywords

PRIMER RNA; PURINE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA;

DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; HOST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; POLYPURINE TRACT; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

DNA, VIRAL; HIV-1; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; PURINES; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 2942525660     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2004.02.016     Document Type: Review

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