Human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K(HML-2) proviruses with Rec protein coding capacity and transcriptional activity

Virology

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 190-198

  Mayer, Jens ^a   Ehlhardt, Sandra ^a   Seifert, Markus ^a   Sauter, Marlies ^a   Müller Lantzsch, Nikolaus ^a   Mehraein, Yasmin ^a   Zang, Klaus Dieter ^a   Meese, Eckart ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cORF; Expression; HERV K; Human endogenous retrovirus; Provirus; Rec

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; DATA BASE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; RNA SPLICING; SYNOVIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROVIRUSES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 1942517945     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.01.023     Document Type: Article

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