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SUBMITTER: Slack RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774901 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Slack Ryan L RL Ilina Tatiana V TV Xi Zhaoyong Z Giacobbi Nicholas S NS Kawai Gota G Parniak Michael A MA Sarafianos Stefan G SG Sluis Cremer Nicolas N Ishima Rieko R
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HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) is translated as part of the Gag-Pol polyprotein that is proteolytically processed by HIV-1 protease (PR) to finally become a mature heterodimer, composed of a p66 and a p66-derived 51-kDa subunit, p51. Our previous work suggested that tRNA<sup>Lys3</sup> binding to p66/p66 introduces conformational changes in the ribonuclease (RNH) domain of RT that facilitate efficient cleavage of p66 to p51 by PR. In this study, we characterized the conformational changes in t ...[more]