Site-specific characterization of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein binding to oligonucleotides with two binding sites

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2422-2430

  Avilov, Sergiy V ^a,b,c   Godet, Julien ^a,b,c   Piémont, Etienne ^a,b,c   Mély, Yves ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b PALLADIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

^c Faculté de Pharmacie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE (2AP); AFFINITY CONSTANTS; ANTI-VIRAL AGENTS; CONFORMATIONAL FLUCTUATIONS; COOPERATIVITY; DINUCLEOTIDE; DYNAMIC QUENCHING; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; HIV-1 GENOMIC RNAS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SALT CONCENTRATIONS; PICOSECOND; PREFERENTIAL BINDINGS; SITE SPECIFICS; SPECIFIC BINDINGS; TIME-RESOLVED FLUORESCENCES;

BINDING ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; LIFE CYCLE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; QUENCHING; RNA;

BINDING SITES;

2 AMINOPURINE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

2-AMINOPURINE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HIV-1; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 64849111662     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi8022366     Document Type: Article

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