Mutations in the kissing-loop hairpin of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reduce viral infectivity as well as genomic RNA packaging and dimerization

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 3397-3406

  Laughrea, Michael ^a,b   Jetté, Louis ^a   Mak, Johnson ^a,b   Kleiman, Lawrence ^a,b   Liang, Chen ^a,b   Wainberg, Mark A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; DNA PACKAGING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; START CODON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030899860     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.5.3397-3406.1997     Document Type: Article

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