Cryo-electron microscopy structure of yeast Ty retrotransposon virus- like particles

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 6863-6868

  Palmer, Kevin J ^a   Tichelaar, Willem ^b,e   Myers, Nicola ^c   Burns, Nigel R ^c   Butcher, Sarah J ^b,f   Kingsman, Alan J ^d   Fuller, Stephen D ^b   Saibil, Helen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^c British Biotech Pharmaceaticals Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN A; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS PARTICLE; YEAST;

EID: 0030858629     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.6863-6868.1997     Document Type: Article

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