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Matthew A. Takata
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9989-4363
Steven J. Soll
Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0082-0645
Ann Emery
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Daniel Blanco-Melo
Roles Data curation, Software
Affiliation: Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0256-5019
Ronald Swanstrom
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-0773
Paul D. Bieniasz
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2368-3719Abstract
The ~9.5 kilobase HIV-1 genome contains RNA sequences and structures that control many aspects of viral replication, including transcription, splicing, nuclear export, translation, packaging and reverse transcription. Nonetheless, chemical probing and other approaches suggest that the HIV-1 genome may contain many more RNA secondary structures of unknown importance and function. To determine whether there are additional, undiscovered cis-acting RNA elements in the...