Rapid Kinetics of Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction is a Major Component of HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein's Nucleic Acid Chaperone Function

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 363, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 867-877

  Cruceanu, Margareta ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^b   Musier Forsyth, Karin ^c   Rouzina, Ioulia ^c   Williams, Mark C ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA cooperativity; DNA melting; nucleic acid chaperone; nucleocapsid protein; single molecule DNA stretching

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENERGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HYSTERESIS; KINETICS; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN VARIANT; WILD TYPE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 33750016312     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.08.070     Document Type: Article

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