The single-finger nucleocapsid protein of moloney murine leukemia virus binds and destabilizes the TAR sequences of HIV-1 but does not promote efficiently their annealing

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 50, 2007, Pages 14650-14662

  Egelé, Caroline ^a   Piémont, Etienne ^a   Didier, Pascal ^a   Ficheux, Damien ^b   Roques, Bernard ^c   Darlix, Jean Luc ^d   De Rocquigny, Hugues ^a   Mély, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^c Laboratoire de Pharmacochimie   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; DISEASES; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; VIRUSES;

CANONICAL MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS (MOMULV); CHAPERONE ACTIVITY; MURINE LEUKEMIA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS (NC);

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

CHAPERONE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 37249058289     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi7012239     Document Type: Article

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