Establishment and characterization of molecular clones of porcine endogenous retroviruses replicating on human cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 4028-4038

  Czauderna, Frank ^a,b   Fischer, Nicole ^a   Boller, Klaus ^a   Kurth, Reinhard ^a,c   Tönjes, Ralf R ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b Atugen AG   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; VIRION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE LIBRARY; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA SPLICING; SWINE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0034000469     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.9.4028-4038.2000     Document Type: Article

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