Identification of a novel GC-rich 113-nucleotide region to complete the circular, single-stranded DNA genome of TT virus, the first human circovirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3582-3586

  Miyata, Hironori ^a   Tsunoda, Hiroaki ^a   Kazi, Aslamuzzaman ^a   Yamada, Akio ^a   Khan, Mohammed Ali ^a   Murakami, Jun ^a   Kamahora, Toshio ^a   Shiraki, Kazuo ^a   Hino, Shigeo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE STRANDED DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CIRCOVIRIDAE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TATA BOX; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0032947435     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.5.3582-3586.1999     Document Type: Article

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