The intact retroviral Env glycoprotein of human foamy virus is a trimer

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2885-2887

  Wilk, Thomas ^a   De Haas, Felix ^a   Wagner, Andrea ^b   Rutten, Twan ^a   Fuller, Stephen ^a,c   Flügel, Rolf M ^b   Löchelt, Martin ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUMA VIRUS; VIRUS PARTICLE;

GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RETROVIRIDAE PROTEINS; SPUMAVIRUS;

EID: 0034002442     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.6.2885-2887.2000     Document Type: Article

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