Structure-Based Alignment and Consensus Secondary Structures for Three HIV-Related RNA Genomes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Lavender, Christopher A ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^b   Weeks, Kevin M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

CRITICAL STEPS; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; MODEL FREE; MULTIPLE REGIONS; RNA GENOME; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; STRUCTURE-BASED; VIRAL GENOME; VIRAL REPLICATION;

ALIGNMENT;

NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 (STRAIN NL4.3); NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS STRAIN; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETIC STRUCTURES; GENOME, VIRAL; HIV-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84930608934     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004230     Document Type: Article

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