Isolation of a human endogenous retroviral HERV-H element with an open env reading frame

Virology

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 441-450

  Lindeskog, Mats ^a   Mager, Dixie L ^b   Blomberg, Jonas ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GORILLA; IN VITRO STUDY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORANG UTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RNA TRANSLATION; STOP CODON;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS H; MACACA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033526516     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9750     Document Type: Article

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