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Sequences Downstream of the 5′ Splice Donor Site Are Required for both Packaging and Dimerization of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA
11 Dec 2002
Abstract excerpt
Two copies of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA are incorporated into each virus particle and are further converted to a stable dimer as the virus particle matures. Several RNA segments that flank the 5' splice donor site at nucleotide (nt) 289 have been shown to act as packaging signals. Among these, RNA stem-loop 1 (SL1) (nt 243 to 277) can trigger RNA dimerization through a "kissing-loop" mechanism and...
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