Unspliced Rous Sarcoma Virus Genomic RNAs Are Translated and Subjected to Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay before Packaging

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5139-5146

  LeBlanc, Jason J ^a   Beemon, Karen L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA GENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; ROUS SARCOMA ONCOVIRUS; STOP CODON; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE;

AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUSES; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 2342644903     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.10.5139-5146.2004     Document Type: Article

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