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Heterologous basic domain substitutions in the HIV-1 Tat protein reveal an arginine-rich motif required for transactivation.
The EMBO journal - 1 Aug 1991
Subramanian T, Govindarajan R, Chinnadurai G
Abstract excerpt
The Tat protein coded by HIV-1 is a unique eukaryotic transactivator. It activates gene expression from the viral LTR by its interaction with a nascent RNA element (TAR) located at the 5' end of all HIV-1 transcripts. Tat appears to bind to its target RNA structure in a highly sequence-specific manner. The TAR-binding activity of Tat has been localized in an Arg-rich basic domain located between residues 49 and...
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