The availability of the primer activation signal (PAS) affects the efficiency of HIV-1 reverse transcription initiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1649-1659

  Ooms, Marcel ^a   Cupac, Daniel ^a   Abbink, Truus E M ^a   Huthoff, Hendrik ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIMER ACTIVATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RIBOSWITCH; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; HIV-1; HIV-1 REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 34247121777     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm046     Document Type: Article

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