The roles of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 pol protein and the primer binding site in the placement of primer tRNA3(Lys) onto viral genomic RNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 9075-9086

  Liang, Chen ^a   Rong, Liwei ^a,b   Morin, Nicolas ^a,b   Cherry, Elana ^a,b   Huang, Yue ^a,b   Kleiman, Lawrence ^a,b   Wainberg, Mark A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA; POL PROTEIN; PRIMER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERTANT; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030730816     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.12.9075-9086.1997     Document Type: Article

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