The AFF4 scaffold binds human P-TEFb adjacent to HIV Tat

eLife

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Schulze Gahmen, Ursula ^a   Upton, Heather ^a   Birnberg, Andrew ^a   Bao, Katherine ^a,e   Chou, Seemay ^a,f   Krogan, Nevan J ^b,c,d   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Alber, Tom ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GLADSTONE INSTITUTES   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFF1 PROTEIN; AFF4 PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 9; CYCLIN T1; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AFF4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CCNT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CDK9 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYCLIN T; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VIRUS REPLICATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLIN T; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 9; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84879054579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.00327     Document Type: Article

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