Characterization of the genome of feline foamy virus and its proteins shows distinct features different from those of primate spumaviruses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 6727-6741

  Winkler, Ingrid ^a,b   Bodem, Jochen ^a   Haas, Ludwig ^c   Zemba, Motomi ^a   Delius, Hajo ^a   Flower, Robert ^b   Flügel, Rolf M ^a   Löchelt, Martin ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROVIRUS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPUMA VIRUS; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0030795038     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.6727-6741.1997     Document Type: Article

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