AFF1 is a ubiquitous P-TEFb partner to enable Tat extraction of P-TEFb from 7SK snRNP and formation of SECs for HIV transactivation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lu, Huasong ^a,b   Li, Zichong ^b   Xue, Yuhua ^a   Schulze Gahmen, Ursula ^b   Johnson, Jeffrey R ^c,d   Krogan, Nevan J ^c,d   Alber, Tom ^d   Zhou, Qiang ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Gladtone Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AF4 FMR2 FAMILY MEMBER 1 PROTEIN; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALANINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLIN T; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 9; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84891957325     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318503111     Document Type: Article

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