The RNA annealing mechanism of the HIV-1 Tat peptide: Conversion of the RNA into an annealing-competent conformation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4405-4418

  Doetsch, Martina ^a   Fürtig, Boris ^a   Gstrein, Thomas ^a   Stampfl, Sabine ^a   Schroeder, Renée ^a  

^a MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN TAT(44-61); TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; AMINO ACID; CATION; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

AMINO ACIDS, BASIC; CATIONS; ENTROPY; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RNA; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 79955578207     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1339     Document Type: Article

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