Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein reduces reverse transcriptase pausing at a secondary structure near the murine leukemia virus polypurine tract

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 7132-7142

  Wu, Weixing ^a   Henderson, Louis E ^b   Copeland, Terry D ^c   Gorelick, Robert J ^b   Bosche, William J ^b   Rein, Alan ^c   Levin, Judith G ^a  

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

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0029794295     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.10.7132-7142.1996     Document Type: Article

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