Placement of tRNA primer on the primer-binding site requires pol gene expression in avian but not murine retroviruses

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 6940-6946

  Fu, William ^a,c   Ortiz Conde, Betty A ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^b   Hughes, Stephen H ^a   Rein, Alan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; POL PROTEIN; PRIMER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; AVIAN LEUKOSIS ONCOVIRUS; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030796176     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.6940-6946.1997     Document Type: Article

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