Article
Mutating a Conserved Motif of the HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Palm Subdomain Alters Primer Utilization
1 May 1997
Abstract excerpt
In order to investigate how primer grip residues of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1 RT) contribute toward the architecture of its palm subdomain and neighboring structural elements, the DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H (RNase H) activities of enzymes bearing aromatic substitutions at Trp229 and Tyr232 of the catalytically-competent p66 subunit were evaluated. Although all mutants...
