Genetic analysis of the zinc finger in the moloney murine leukemia virus nucleocapsid domain: replacement of zinc-coordinating residues with other zinc-coordinating residues yields noninfectious particles containing genomic RNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2593-2597

  Gorelick, Robert J ^a   Chabot, Donald J ^a   Ott, David E ^a   Gagliardi, Tracy D ^a   Rein, Alan ^a   Henderson, Louis E ^a   Arthur, Larry O ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA PROCESSING; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

3T3 CELLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID; CELL LINE; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0029986494     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.4.2593-2597.1996     Document Type: Article

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