Sequences downstream of the 5′ splice donor site are required for both packaging and dimerization of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 84-96

  Russell, Rodney S ^a,b   Hu, Jing ^a   Bériault, Véronique ^a,b   Mouland, Andrew J ^a,b   Laughrea, Michael ^a,b   Kleiman, Lawrence ^a,b   Wainberg, Mark A ^a,b   Liang, Chen ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; DIMERIZATION; HIV-1; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0037213906     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.1.84-96.2003     Document Type: Article

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