Roles of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid protein in annealing and initiation versus elongation in reverse transcription of viral negative-strand strong-stop DNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 9353-9358

  Rong, Liwei ^a   Liang, Chen ^a   Hsu, Mayla ^a   Kleiman, Lawrence ^a   Petitjean, Patrice ^b   De Rocquigny, Hugues ^b   Roques, Bernard P ^b   Wainberg, Mark A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES PHARMACEUTIQUES ET BIOLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0031686764     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.11.9353-9358.1998     Document Type: Article

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