Role of HIV-1 RNA and protein determinants for the selective packaging of spliced and unspliced viral RNA and host U6 and 7SL RNA in virus particles

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8915-8927

  Didierlaurent, L ^a   Racine, P J ^a   Houzet, L ^a,b   Chamontin, C ^a   Berkhout, B ^c   Mougel, M ^a  

^a University of Montpellier I and II   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Experimental Virology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HEK293 CELLS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, VIRAL; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; ZINC FINGERS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 80455124104     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr577     Document Type: Article

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