A specific sequence with a bulged guanosine residue(s) in a stem-bulge-stem structure of Rev-responsive element RNA is required for trans activation by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev.

Abstract excerpt

We demonstrate that both the in vitro RNA binding and in vivo trans activation functions of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev regulatory protein Rev require the presence of a 9-nucleotide 5'-CACUAUGGG-3' RNA motif on its cognate target, the Rev-responsive element RNA. For optimal Rev recognition, this sequence must be presented as a stem-bulge-stem structure and must contain at least two G's, one of which...

Topics

• Base Sequence
• Consensus Sequence
• Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
• Gene Products, rev
• Guanosine
• HIV-1
• HeLa Cells
• Humans
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Molecular
• Molecular Sequence Data