Involvement of C-terminal structural elements of equine infectious anemia virus reverse transcriptase in DNA polymerase and ribonuclease H activities

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 500-511

  Rausch, Jason W ^a,b   Arts, Eric J ^b   Wöhrl, Birgitta M ^b,c   Le Grice, Stuart F J ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNase I footprinting; Processive DNA synthesis; RNase H mutants

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA VIRUS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

DNA VIRUSES; EQUIDAE; EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA VIRUS;

EID: 0029912994     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0181     Document Type: Article

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