Comparison of SIV and HIV-1 Genomic RNA Structures Reveals Impact of Sequence Evolution on Conserved and Non-Conserved Structural Motifs

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Pollom, Elizabeth ^a   Dang, Kristen K ^b,e   Potter, E Lake ^c   Gorelick, Robert J ^d   Burch, Christina L ^b   Weeks, Kevin M ^c   Swanstrom, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SPLICING; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, ENV; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; MICE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PRIMATES; RNA VIRUSES; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84876844318     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003294     Document Type: Article

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