Structural insight into HIV-1 reverse transcription initiation in MAL-like templates (CRF01-AE, subtype G and CRF02-AG)

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 418-433

  Kolomiets, Irina N ^a   Zarudnaya, Margarita I ^a   Potyahaylo, Andriy L ^a   Hovorun, Dmytro M ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Ukraine)

^b State Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology   (Ukraine)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

HIV 1 reverse transcription initiation; MAL like templates; PAS (primer activation signal); PBS (primer binding site); secondary structure prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMER ACTIVATION SIGNAL; PRIMER BINDING SITE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS GENE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; HIV-1; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84914173456     PISSN: 07391102     EISSN: 15380254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2014.884938     Document Type: Article

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