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Titration of cellular export factors, but not heteromultimerization, is the molecular mechanism of trans-dominant HTLV-1 rex mutants.
Oncogene - 15 Jul 1999
Heger P, Rosorius O, Hauber J, Stauber R H
Abstract excerpt
The HTLV-1 Rex protein is an essential shuttle protein required for nuclear export of unspliced and incompletely-spliced viral RNAs. Several trans-dominant (TD) mutant Rex proteins have been reported, however, the mechanism of trans-dominance is not known. We compared TD Rex mutants and found that a natural occurring Rex mutant, Rexp21, lacking the RNA binding domain, was highly TD and inhibited also HIV-1 Rev...
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