Role of the cytoplasmic tail of ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus Env protein in fusion pore formation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 447-455

  Melikyan, Grigory B ^a   Markosyan, Ruben M ^a   Brener, Sofya A ^a   Rozenberg, Yanina ^b   Cohen, Fredric S ^a  

^a RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CELL FUSION; CHANNEL GATING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033988562     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.1.447-455.2000     Document Type: Article

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