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A Novel Long Distance Base-pairing Interaction in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Occludes the Gag Start Codon
1 Mar 2003
Abstract excerpt
The 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) is the most conserved part of the HIV-1 RNA genome, and it contains regulatory motifs that mediate various steps in the viral life cycle. Previous work showed that the 5'-terminal 290 nucleotides of HIV-1 RNA adopt two mutually exclusive secondary structures, long distance interaction (LDI) and branched multiple hairpin (BMH). BMH has multiple hairpins, including the dimer...
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