Revelations of a captive: Retroviral qin and the oncogenicity of winged helix proteins

Virology

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Vogt, Peter K ^a   Li, Jan ^a   Freyaldenhoven, Bettina S ^a,b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CARCINOGENICITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW;

UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0031564065     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8846     Document Type: Article

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