A moloney murine leukemia virus-based retroviral vector pseudotyped by the insect retroviral gypsy envelope can infect Drosophila cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 853-856

  Teysset, Laure ^a   Burns, Jane C ^b   Shike, Hiroko ^b   Sullivan, Barbara L ^b   Bucheton, Alain ^a   Terzian, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 0031975665     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.1.853-856.1998     Document Type: Article

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