Medical Definition of Tat protein
1.
Transactivator protein from lentiviruses, notably HIV. Sequence specific RNA binding proteins that recognise TAR RNA. Peptides from this protein are potent neurotoxins, implying a possible route for HIV mediated toxicity.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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