Proteolytic activity, the carboxy terminus of gag, and the primer binding site are not required for Pol incorporation into foamy virus particles

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 6387-6393

  Baldwin, David N ^b   Linial, Maxine L ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SPUMA VIRUS; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE;

EID: 0032775896     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.8.6387-6393.1999     Document Type: Article

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