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Structural polymorphism of the HIV-1 leader region explored by computational methods.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2005
Kasprzak Wojciech, Bindewald Eckart, Shapiro Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
Experimental studies revealed that the elements of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) 5'-untranslated leader region (5'-UTR) can fold in vitro into two alternative conformations, branched (BMH) and 'linearized' (LDI) and switch between them to achieve different functionality. In this study we computationally explored in detail, with our massively parallel genetic algorithm (MPGAfold), the propensity...
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