Structure and genomic organization of a novel human endogenous retrovirus family: HERV-K (HML-6)

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1731-1744

  Medstrand, Patrik ^a,b   Mager, Dixie L ^c,d   Yin, Hong ^a,b   Dietrich, Ursula ^e   Blomberg, Jonas ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR TUMOR BIOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ARTICLE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0030807163     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-7-1731     Document Type: Article

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