Know your enemy: successful bioinformatic approaches to predict functional RNA structures in viral RNAs

CS Lim, CM Brown - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Structured RNA elements may control virus replication, transcription and translation, and
their distinct features are being exploited by novel antiviral strategies. Viral RNA elements …

Structural and computational studies of HIV-1 RNA

L Levintov, H Vashisth - RNA biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Viruses remain a global threat to animals, plants, and humans. The type 1 human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) is a member of the retrovirus family and carries an RNA …

CCR5 RNA Pseudoknots: Residue and Site‐Specific Labeling correlate Internal Motions with microRNA Binding

B Chen, AP Longhini, F Nußbaumer… - … A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conformational dynamics of RNA molecules play a critical role in governing their biological
functions. Measurements of RNA dynamic behavior sheds important light on sites that …

NMR studies of retroviral genome packaging

PS Boyd, JB Brown, JD Brown, J Catazaro, I Chaudry… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nearly all retroviruses selectively package two copies of their unspliced RNA genomes from
a cellular milieu that contains a substantial excess of non-viral and spliced viral RNAs. Over …

The Fight against Human Viruses: How NMR Can Help?

M Vincenzi, M Leone - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - benthamdirect.com
Background: COVID-19 has brought the world to its knees, and there is an urgent need for
new strategies to identify molecules capable of fighting the pandemic. During the last few …

Insights into Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) genomic RNA packaging: Identification of minimal structural motifs involved during its selective encapsidation

MA Lizna - 2021 - search.proquest.com
A distinguishing feature of the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) packaging signalRNA
secondary structure is a single-stranded purine-rich sequence (ssPurines; UITU 191 …

RNA Structural Regulation of Reverse Transcription Initiation in HIV

AT Coey - 2018 - search.proquest.com
The process of reverse transcription in HIV is a crucial early step in the viral replication cycle
and must take place before infection is complete. During this process, the viral single …