HIV-1 frameshift efficiency is primarily determined by the stability of base pairs positioned at the mRNA entrance channel of the ribosome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1901-1913

  Mouzakis, Kathryn D ^a   Lang, Andrew L ^a   Vander Meulen, Kirk A ^a   Easterday, Preston D ^a   Butcher, Samuel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; HIV-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, EUKARYOTIC; RNA STABILITY; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84873637807     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1254     Document Type: Article

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