Replication of a foamy virus mutant with a constitutively active U3 promoter and deleted accessory genes

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1591-1598

  Schenk, Thomas ^d   Enssle, Jörg ^b   Fischer, Nicole ^c   Rethwilm, Axel ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE DELETION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPUMA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; HUMAN SPUMARETROVIRUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; RNA VIRUSES; SPUMAVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033026130     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-80-7-1591     Document Type: Article

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