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Identifying amino acid residues that contribute to the cellular-DNA binding site on retroviral integrase.
Virology - 20 Jun 2009
Nowak Matthew G, Sudol Malgorzata, Lee Noelle E, Konsavage Wesley M, Katzman Michael
Abstract excerpt
Although retroviral integrase specifically trims the ends of viral DNA and inserts these ends into any sequence in cellular DNA, little information is available to explain how integrase distinguishes between its two DNA substrates. We recently described novel integrase mutants that were improved for specific nicking of viral DNA but impaired at joining these ends into nonviral DNA. An acidic or bulky substitution...
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