The TAR hairpin of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 can be deleted when not required for Tat-mediated activation of transcription

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 7742-7748

  Das, Atze T ^a,b   Harwig, Alex ^a   Vrolijk, Martine M ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; HIV-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 34447261637     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00392-07     Document Type: Article

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