Mutations within four distinct gag proteins are required to restore replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 after deletion mutagenesis within the dimerization initiation site

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 7014-7020

  Liang, Chen ^a   Rong, Liwei ^a   Quan, Yudong ^a   Laughrea, Michael ^a   Kleiman, Lawrence ^a,b   Wainberg, Mark A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032813560     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.8.7014-7020.1999     Document Type: Article

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