Role of the membrane-proximal domain in the initial stages of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope glycoprotein-mediated membrane fusion

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 6089-6092

  Muñoz Barroso, Isabel ^a,b   Salzwedel, Karl ^a,b   Hunter, Eric ^a,b   Blumenthal, Robert ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNCYTIUM; TARGET CELL; VIRUS MUTATION;

EID: 0343365487     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.7.6089-6092.1999     Document Type: Article

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