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Mutations in the TAR hairpin affect the equilibrium between alternative conformations of the HIV-1 leader RNA.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Jun 2001
Huthoff H, Berkhout B
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 untranslated leader RNA can adopt two mutually exclusive conformations that represent alternative secondary structures. This leader RNA can fold either an extended duplex through long-distance base pairing or a branched conformation in which the RNA locally folds into hairpin structures. Both leader RNA conformations have the TAR hairpin in common, which forms the extreme 5' end of all HIV-1...
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