Interactions between Ty1 retrotransposon RNA and the T and D regions of the tRNA(i)(Met) primer are required for initiation of reverse transcription in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 799-806

  Friant, S ^a   Heyman, T ^b   Bystrom A S ^c   Wilhelm, M ^a   Wilhelm, F X ^a,d  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA PROBE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0031908703     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.2.799     Document Type: Article

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