The retrotransposon Tf1 assembles virus-like particles that contain excess Gag relative to integrase because of a regulated degradation process

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 338-346

  Atwood, Angela ^a   Lin, Jia Hwei ^a   Levin, Henry L ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

GAG PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RETROPOSON; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; STOP CODON; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; INTEGRASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RETROELEMENTS; RETROVIRIDAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

EID: 0029655262     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.1.338     Document Type: Article

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