Retroviral nucleocapsid proteins display nonequivalent levels of nucleic acid chaperone activity

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 10129-10142

  Stewart Maynard, Kristen M ^a   Cruceanu, Margareta ^b   Wang, Fei ^b   Vo, My Nuong ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^c   Williams, Mark C ^b   Rouzina, Ioulia ^d   Musier Forsyth, Karin ^e  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CHAPERONE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RETROVIRUS; ROUS SARCOMA ONCOVIRUS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; TEMPERATURE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS; ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 53749089459     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01169-08     Document Type: Article

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