HIV nuclear import: What's the flap?

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 626-628

  Stevenson, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, VIRAL; HIV; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

DNA VIRUSES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0034124547     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/76191     Document Type: Short Survey

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