Differential contribution of basic residues to HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein's nucleic acid chaperone function and retroviral replication

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2525-2537

  Wu, Hao ^a   Mitra, Mithun ^b,e   Naufer, M Nabuan ^a   McCauley, Micah J ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^c   Rouzina, Ioulia ^d   Musier Forsyth, Karin ^b   Williams, Mark C ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; TRANSACTIVATION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

CELL LINE; DNA; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HIV-1; MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84895788984     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1227     Document Type: Article

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