Comparative sequence analysis and predictions for the envelope glycoproteins of insect endogenous retroviruses

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 253-256

  Misseri, Yolande ^a   Labesse, Gilles ^b   Bucheton, Alain ^a   Terzian, Christophe ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

BACULOVIRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVELOPE GENE; INSECT; INSECT ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME;

DNA VIRUSES; INSECTA; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0038003703     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(03)00119-7     Document Type: Review

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