The kissing-loop motif is a preferred site of 5' leader recombination during replication of SL3-3 murine leukemia viruses in mice

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 9614-9618

  Lund, Anders H ^a   Mikkelsen, Jacob Giehm ^a   Schmidt, Jörg ^b   Duch, Mogens ^a   Pedersen, Finn Skou ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T CELL LYMPHOMA; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032853033     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.11.9614-9618.1999     Document Type: Article

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