The secondary structure of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 transcript modulates viral splicing and infectivity

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 8038-8050

  Jablonski, Joseph A ^a   Buratti, Emanuele ^b   Stuani, Cristiana ^b   Caputi, Massimo ^a,c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HNRNP H PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; EXONS; HELA CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP F-H; HIV-1; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 49149093734     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00721-08     Document Type: Article

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