Identification of an active reverse transcriptase enzyme encoded by a human endogenous HERV-K retrovirus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2365-2375

  Berkhout, Ben ^a   Jebbink, Maarten ^a   Zsíros, Jozsef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0033049548     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.2365-2375.1999     Document Type: Article

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