Role of the primer activation signal in tRNA annealing onto the HIV-1 genome studied by single-molecule FRET microscopy

RNA

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 517-526

  Beerens, Nancy ^a,c   Jepsen, Mette D E ^a   Nechyporuk Zloy, Volodymyr ^a,d   Krüger, Asger C ^a   Darlix, Jean Luc ^b   Kjems, Jørgen ^a   Birkedal, Victoria ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Faculté de Pharmacie   (France)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ensemble FRET; HIV 1; RNA conformation; Single molecule FRET; tRNA annealing

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, VIRAL;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84875409955     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.035733.112     Document Type: Article

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