Structural determinants of murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase that affect the frequency of template switching

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 7171-7178

  Svarovskaia, Evguenia S ^a,b   Delviks, Krista A ^b   Hwang, Carey K ^a,b   Pathak, Vinay K ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SWITCHING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA DEGRADATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GENE DELETION; HYDROXYUREA; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0033927974     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.15.7171-7178.2000     Document Type: Article

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