Complementarity-directed RNA dimer-linkage promotes retroviral recombination in vivo

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 102-114

  Mikkelsen, Jacob Giehm ^a,b   Rasmussen, Søren Vestergaard ^a   Pedersen, Finn Skou ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PALINDROMIC DNA; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC LINKAGE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; WILD TYPE; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; BASE PAIRING; CELL LINE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROVIRUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

MURINAE; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC VECTORS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PROVIRUSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 1242342961     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh159     Document Type: Article

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