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HIV-1 RNA Dimerization Initiation Site Is Structurally Similar to the Ribosomal A Site and Binds Aminoglycoside Antibiotics
1 Jan 2003
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genomic RNA is packaged into virions as a dimer. The first step of dimerization is the formation of a kissing-loop complex at the so-called dimerization initiation site (DIS). We found an unexpected and fortuitous resemblance between the HIV-1 DIS kissing-loop complex and the eubacterial 16 S ribosomal aminoacyl-tRNA site (A site), which is the target of aminoglycoside...
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