Structural determinants of TAR RNA-DNA annealing in the absence and presence of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 8148-8162

  Kanevsky, Igor ^a   Chaminade, Franoise ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a   Godet, Julien ^b   René, Brigitte ^a   Darlix, Jean Luc ^c   Mély, Yves ^b   Mauffret, Olivier ^a   Fossé, Philippe ^a  

^a Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c University Lyon i   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RNA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 80054054303     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr526     Document Type: Article

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