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Unpaired Guanosines in the 5' Untranslated Region of HIV-1 RNA Act Synergistically To Mediate Genome Packaging.
Journal of virology - 14 Oct 2020
Nikolaitchik Olga A, Somoulay Xayathed, Rawson Jonathan M O, Yoo Jennifer A, Pathak Vinay K, Hu Wei-Shau
Abstract excerpt
The viral protein Gag selects full-length HIV-1 RNA from a large pool of mRNAs as virion genome during virus assembly. Currently, the precise mechanism that mediates the genome selection is not understood. Previous studies have identified several sites in the 5' untranslated region (5' UTR) of HIV-1 RNA that are bound by nucleocapsid (NC) protein, which is derived from Gag during virus maturation. However,...
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