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HIV-1 DIS stem loop forms an obligatory bent kissing intermediate in the dimerization pathway.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jun 2014
Mundigala Hansini, Michaux Jonathan B, Feig Andrew L, Ennifar Eric, Rueda David
Abstract excerpt
The HIV-1 dimerization initiation sequence (DIS) is a conserved palindrome in the apical loop of a conserved hairpin motif in the 5'-untranslated region of its RNA genome. DIS hairpin plays an important role in genome dimerization by forming a 'kissing complex' between two complementary hairpins. Understanding the kinetics of this interaction is key to exploiting DIS as a possible human immunodeficiency virus...
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