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Mapping of functionally important residues of a cysteine-histidine box in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein
1 Oct 1993
Abstract excerpt
The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) nucleocapsid protein contains two copies of a sequence motif, the cysteine-histidine box, that is conserved among retroviruses. To identify the functionally relevant positions of a cysteine-histidine box, each amino acid in the proximal copy of the motif was individually substituted by site-directed mutagenesis. Mutations at 5 of 14 positions abolished virus...
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