Elimination of protease activity restores efficient virion production to a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid deletion mutant

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5547-5556

  Ott, David E ^a   Coren, Lori V ^a   Chertova, Elena N ^a   Gagliardi, Tracy D ^a   Nagashima, Kunio ^a   Sowder II, Raymond C ^a   Pooh, Dexter T K ^a   Gorelick, Robert J ^a  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

CELL LINE; GENE DELETION; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HIV PROTEASE; HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS; HIV-1; HUMANS; NUCLEOCAPSID; RNA, VIRAL; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0038710633     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.10.5547-5556.2003     Document Type: Article

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