Deletion mutagenesis downstream of the 5' long terminal repeat of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 is compensated for by point mutations in both the U5 region and gag gene

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 6251-6261

  Liang, Chen ^a   Rong, Liwei ^b   Russell, Rodney S ^b   Wainberg, Mark A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DELETION MUTANT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; GENES, GAG; HIV LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; HIV-1; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0033945527     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.14.6251-6261.2000     Document Type: Article

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