Effects of nucleic acid local structure and magnesium ions on minus-strand transfer mediated by the nucleic acid chaperone activity of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3974-3987

  Wu, Tiyun ^a   Heilman Miller, Susan L ^a   Levin, Judith G ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; DNA; MAGNESIUM ION; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; CAPSID PROTEIN; DIVALENT CATION; GAG PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM; NCP7 PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSACTIVATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; DNA, VIRAL; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; MAGNESIUM; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 34547647773     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm375     Document Type: Article

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