Nucleolin stabilizes G-quadruplex structures folded by the LTR promoter and silences HIV-1 viral transcription

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 8884-8897

  Tosoni, Elena ^a   Frasson, Ilaria ^a   Scalabrin, Matteo ^a,b   Perrone, Rosalba ^a   Butovskaya, Elena ^a   Nadai, Matteo ^a   Palù, Giorgio ^a   Fabris, Dan ^b   Richter, Sara N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; NUCLEOLIN; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROVIRUS; RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; CELL LINE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

CELL LINE; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE SILENCING; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84960463073     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv897     Document Type: Article

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