First glimpses at structure-function relationships of the nucleocapsid protein of retroviruses

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 523-537

  Darlix, Jean Luc ^a   Lapadat Tapolsky, Mary ^a   De Rocquigny, Hugues ^b   Roques, Bernard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Genomic RNA dimer; Nucleocapsid protein; Recombination; Retroviruses; Reverse transcription

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MIRIDAE; RNA TUMOR VIRUS; TUMOR VIRUS;

EID: 0029585377     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0635     Document Type: Review

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