Detection of reverse transcriptase activity in human melanoma cell lines and identification of a murine leukemia virus contaminant

Archives of Dermatological Research

Volumn 296, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 345-352

  Deichmann, Martin ^a   Huder, Jon B ^b   Kleist, Christian ^a   Näher, Helmut ^a   Schüpbach, Jörg ^b   Böni, Jürg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Human melanoma cell lines; Moloney murine leukemia virus; Murine leukemia virus; Retrovirus; Reverse transcriptase activity

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; SUCROSE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MYELOMA CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, MURINE; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

EID: 14644387507     PISSN: 03403696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00403-004-0501-4     Document Type: Article

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