Publication Date:
1992-07-03
Description:
The messenger RNAs of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) have an RNA hairpin structure, TAR, at their 5' ends that contains a six-nucleotide loop and a three-nucleotide bulge. The conformations of TAR RNA and of TAR with an arginine analog specifically bound at the binding site for the viral protein, Tat, were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Upon arginine binding, the bulge changes conformation, and essential nucleotides for binding, U23 and A27.U38, form a base-triple interaction that stabilizes arginine hydrogen bonding to G26 and phosphates. Specificity in the arginine-TAR interaction appears to be derived largely from the structure of the RNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Puglisi, J D -- Tan, R -- Calnan, B J -- Frankel, A D -- Williamson, J R -- AI29135/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Jul 3;257(5066):76-80.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1621097" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Arginine/*metabolism
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Base Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Gene Products, tat/metabolism
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HIV-1/*genetics
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/methods
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Nucleic Acid Conformation
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RNA, Messenger/*chemistry/metabolism
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RNA, Viral/*chemistry/metabolism
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RNA-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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tat Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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