Identification of proteolytic cleavage sites within the gag-analogue protein of Ty1 virus-like particles

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1035-1043

  Martin Rendon, Enca ^a   Hurd, Douglas W ^a   Marfany, Gemma ^a,b   Kingsman, Susan M ^a   Kingsman, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RETROPOSON; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0029849782     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.01544.x     Document Type: Article

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