Alternate polypurine tracts (PPTs) affect the rous sarcoma virus RNase H cleavage specificity and reveal a preferential cleavage following a GA dinucleotide sequence at the PPT-U3 junction

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 13694-13704

  Chang, Kevin W ^a   Julias, John G ^a,b   Alvord, W Gregory ^a   Oh, Jangsuk ^a   Hughes, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; VIRUS DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE DELETION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; ROUS SARCOMA ONCOVIRUS; SHUTTLE VECTOR; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

ADENINE; AVIAN SARCOMA VIRUSES; GUANINE; PURINES; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

DUCK HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; RICE STRIPE VIRUS; ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS;

EID: 27144448390     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.21.13694-13704.2005     Document Type: Article

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