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Rapid kinetics of protein-nucleic acid interaction is a major component of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein's nucleic acid chaperone function.
Journal of molecular biology - 10 Nov 2006
Cruceanu Margareta, Gorelick Robert J, Musier-Forsyth Karin, Rouzina Ioulia, Williams Mark C
Abstract excerpt
The nucleic acid chaperone activity of the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) nucleocapsid protein (NC) plays an important role in the retroviral life cycle, in part, by facilitating numerous nucleic acid rearrangements throughout the reverse transcription process. Recent studies have identified duplex destabilization and nucleic acid aggregation as the two major components of NC's chaperone activity. In...
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