Publication Date:
1996-09-13
Description:
The solution structure of a human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) Rev peptide bound to stem-loop IIB of the Rev response element (RRE) RNA was solved by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The Rev peptide has an alpha-helical conformation and binds in the major groove of the RNA near a purine-rich internal loop. Several arginine side chains make base-specific contacts, and an asparagine residue contacts a G.A base pair. The phosphate backbone adjacent to a G.G base pair adopts an unusual structure that allows the peptide to access a widened major groove. The structure formed by the two purine-purine base pairs of the RRE creates a distinctive binding pocket that the peptide can use for specific recognition.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Battiste, J L -- Mao, H -- Rao, N S -- Tan, R -- Muhandiram, D R -- Kay, L E -- Frankel, A D -- Williamson, J R -- GM-08344/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-39589/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-53320/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Sep 13;273(5281):1547-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8703216" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Arginine/chemistry
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Asparagine/chemistry
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Base Composition
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Base Sequence
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*DNA-Binding Proteins
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Fungal Proteins/chemistry
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Gene Products, rev/*chemistry/*metabolism
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*Genes, env
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HIV-1/*chemistry
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Hydrogen Bonding
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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*Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Protein Kinases/chemistry
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*Protein Structure, Secondary
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RNA, Viral/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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*Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
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Threonine/chemistry
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rev 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
