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Structural integrity of the ribonuclease H domain in HIV-1 reverse transcriptase.
Proteins - 1 Aug 2015
Slack Ryan L, Spiriti Justin, Ahn Jinwoo, Parniak Michael A, Zuckerman Daniel M, Ishima Rieko
Abstract excerpt
The mature form of reverse transcriptase (RT) is a heterodimer comprising the intact 66-kDa subunit (p66) and a smaller 51-kDa subunit (p51) that is generated by removal of most of the RNase H (RNH) domain from a p66 subunit by proteolytic cleavage between residues 440 and 441. Viral infectivity is eliminated by mutations such as F440A and E438N in the proteolytic cleavage sequence, while normal processing and...
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