Functional Domain Structure of Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type 2 Rex

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 12829-12840

  Narayan, Murli ^a   Younis, Ihab ^a   D'Agostino, Donna M ^c   Green, Patrick L ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; REX PROTEIN; REX2 PROTEIN; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOLUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA SPLICING; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL LINE; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE PRODUCTS, REX; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS;

EID: 0242492517     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.23.12829-12840.2003     Document Type: Article

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