Synthetic tRNA Lys,3 as the replication primer for the HIV-1HXB2 and HIV-1Mal genomes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 4687-4695

  Miller, Jennifer T ^b   Khvorova, Anastasia ^a   Scaringe, Stephen A ^a   Le Grice, Stuart F J ^b  

^a Dharmacon Inc   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRUS GENOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 4544345700     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh813     Document Type: Article

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