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Impact of forced selection of tRNAs on HIV-1 replication and genome stability highlight preferences for selection of certain tRNAs.
Virus research - 1 Mar 2007
Ni Na, Morrow Casey D
Abstract excerpt
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) exclusively selects tRNA(Lys,3) as the primer for initiation of reverse transcription. How and why HIV-1 selects the tRNA is unresolved. To address this issue, we have generated HIV-1 in which the PBS was changed to be complementary to alternative tRNAs. In this study, we report on HIV-1 that have the PBS mutated to be complementary to tRNA(Thr), tRNA(Phe), tRNA(Ser) and...
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