The HIV-1 Rev response element (RRE) adopts alternative conformations that promote different rates of virus replication

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4676-4686

  Sherpa, Chringma ^a,b   Rausch, Jason W ^b   Le Grice, Stuart F J ^b   Hammarskjold, Marie Louise ^a   Rekosh, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REV PROTEIN; GAG PROTEIN; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REV PROTEIN, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-1; VIRUS RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENVELOPE GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

FUSION PROTEINS, GAG-POL; GENES, ENV; HIV-1; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; REV GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84934907602     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv313     Document Type: Article

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