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Anti-termination by SIV Tat requires flexibility of the nascent TAR structure.
Journal of molecular biology - 12 Nov 2004
Sommer Peter, Vartanian Jean-Pierre, Wachsmuth Malte, Henry Michel, Guetard Denise, Wain-Hobson Simon
Abstract excerpt
Substitution of the SIVmac239 promoter/enhancer by the strong EF1alpha promoter results in a severe replication defect due to a failure to respond to Tat. Revertant viruses with minimal promoter sequences (two Sp1 sites and a TATA box) were obtained that had fully restored their replicative potential. Comparison of the different LTRs indicated that structural alterations in the TAR stem due to a 31bp exon of the...
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