Gag proteins of the two Drosophila telomeric retrotransposons are targeted to chromosome ends

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 397-402

  Rashkova, Svetlana ^a   Karam, Sarah E ^a   Kellum, Rebecca ^b   Pardue, Mary Lou ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

HeT A; Intracellular targeting; Retrovirus; TART; Telomere

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC CODE; INTERPHASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RETROPOSON; SYMBIOSIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INSECT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; TELOMERE;

UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0037064612     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200205039     Document Type: Article

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