A novel dimer-tetramer transition captured by the crystal structure of the HIV-1 Nef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Singh, Pankaj ^a   Yadav, Gaya Prasad ^a   Gupta, Sudeepti ^a   Tripathi, Anil Kumar ^b   Ramachandran, Ravishankar ^a   Tripathi, Raj Kamal ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; NEF PROTEIN; PROTEIN SH3; TETRAMER; BIOPOLYMER; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; MYRISTYLATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRUS REPLICATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA PRIMERS; GENE PRODUCTS, NEF; HIV-1; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 80355143339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026629     Document Type: Article

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