HIV-1 nucleocapsid traps reverse transcriptase on nucleic acid substrates

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 12230-12240

  Grohmann, Dina ^c,d   Godet, Julien ^a   Mély, Yves ^a   Darlix, Jean Luc ^b   Restle, Tobias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BIOMOLECULES; DISSOCIATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC ACIDS; RATE CONSTANTS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUSES;

DISSOCIATION RATE CONSTANTS; GENOMIC RNAS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUSES; MOLECULAR MECHANISMS; MULTISTEP REACTIONS; NUCLEOCAPSID; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PRIMER EXTENSIONS; PROCESSIVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTIONS; SUBSTRATE COMPLEXES; VIRAL DNAS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS INFECTIONS;

SUBSTRATES;

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

CATALYSIS; DNA, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HIV-1; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NUCLEOCAPSID; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, VIRAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 56249142738     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi801386r     Document Type: Article

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