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NMR and biochemical characterization of recombinant human tRNA(Lys)3 expressed in Escherichia coli: identification of posttranscriptional nucleotide modifications required for efficient initiation of HIV-1 reverse transcription.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Oct 2000
Tisné C, Rigourd M, Marquet R, Ehresmann C, Dardel F
Abstract excerpt
Reverse transcription of HIV-1 viral RNA uses human tRNA(Lys)3 as a primer. Some of the modified nucleotides carried by this tRNA must play a key role in the initiation of this process, because unmodified tRNA produced in vitro is only marginally active as primer. To provide a better understanding of the contribution of base modifications in the initiation complex, we have designed a recombinant system that...
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