U3 region in the HIV-1 genome adopts a G-quadruplex structure in its RNA and DNA sequence

Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2581-2593

  Piekna Przybylska, Dorota ^a   Sullivan, Mark A ^a   Sharma, Gaurav ^b   Bambara, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; GENES; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUSES;

BINDING ELEMENTS; G-QUADRUPLEX STRUCTURE; G-QUADRUPLEXES; G-RICH SEQUENCES; GENOMIC REGIONS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TEMPLATE SWITCHING; VIRAL TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DIMER; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BINDING SITES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA, VIRAL; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, VIRAL; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84899631429     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi4016692     Document Type: Article

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