An additional dimer linkage structure in moloney murine leukemia virus RNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 603-613

  Oroudjev, Emin M ^b   Kang, Peter C E ^b   Kohlstaedt, Lori A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Recombination; Retrovirus; Reverse transcription; RNA dimerization; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0033588327     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2984     Document Type: Article

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