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SUBMITTER: Kieken F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1331991 | biostudies-literature | 2006
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kieken Fabien F Paquet Françoise F Brulé Fabienne F Paoletti Jacques J Lancelot Gérard G
Nucleic acids research 20060112 1
Dimerization of genomic RNA is directly related with the event of encapsidation and maturation of the virion. The initiating sequence of the dimerization is a short autocomplementary region in the hairpin loop SL1. We describe here a new solution structure of the RNA dimerization initiation site (DIS) of HIV-1(Lai). NMR pulsed field-gradient spin-echo techniques and multidimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy indicate that this structure is formed by two hairpins linked by six Watson-Crick G ...[more]