The structure of the human tRNALys3 anticodon bound to the HIV genome is stabilized by modified nucleosides and adjacent mismatch base pairs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3342-3353

  Bilbille, Yann ^a   Vendeix, Franck A P ^a   Guenther, Richard ^a   Malkiewicz, Andrzej ^b   Ariza, Xavier ^c   Vilarrasa, Jaume ^c   Agris, Paul F ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 THIOURIDINE; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; PSEUDOURIDINE; THIOURIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; 2-THIOURIDINE; CARBOHYDRATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PROTON;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALPHA HELIX; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ANTICODON; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTONS; PSEUDOURIDINE; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, VIRAL; THERMODYNAMICS; THIOURIDINE;

EID: 67449095764     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp187     Document Type: Article

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