Architecture and secondary structure of an entire HIV-1 RNA genome

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7256, 2009, Pages 711-716

  Watts, Joseph M ^a   Dang, Kristen K ^b   Gorelick, Robert J ^d   Leonard, Christopher W ^a   Bess Jr, Julian W ^d   Swanstrom, Ronald ^c   Burch, Christina L ^c   Weeks, Kevin M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA; VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV-1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA, VIRAL;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 68449092202     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08237     Document Type: Article

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