Splicing regulatory elements within tat exon 2 of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) are characteristic of group M but not group O HIV-1 strains

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 9764-9772

  Bilodeau, Patricia S ^a   Domsic, Jeffrey K ^a   Stoltzfus, C Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 0032736044     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.12.9764-9772.1999     Document Type: Article

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