Article
Interaction of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Tat-derived peptides with TAR RNA.
Biochemistry - 11 Jul 1995
Long K S, Crothers D M
Abstract excerpt
Basic peptides from the carboxy terminus of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat protein bind to the stem-loop region of TAR RNA, spanning a trinucleotide bulge, with high affinity and moderate specificity. Previous studies have demonstrated that TAR RNA contains a specific arginine binding pocket. A series of 24 amino acid Tat-derived peptides with one or two arginines has been evaluated as...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Gene Products, tat
- HIV Long Terminal Repeat
- HIV-1
- Kinetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Peptide Fragments
- RNA, Viral
- Thermodynamics
