Genetic selection for balanced retroviral splicing: Novel regulation involving the second step can be mediated by transitions in the polypyrimidine tract

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 2663-2671

  Bouck, John ^a,b   Fu, Xiang Dong ^c   Skalka, Anna Marie ^a,b   Katz, Richard A ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AVES; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUS;

EID: 0028927643     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.15.5.2663     Document Type: Article

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