Sequences intervening between the core packaging determinants are dispensable for maintaining the packaging potential and propagation of feline immunodeficiency virus transfer vector RNAs

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 13817-13821

  Mustafa, Farah ^a   Ghazawi, Akela ^a   Jayanth, Preethi ^a   Phillip, Pretty Susan ^a   Ali, Jahabar ^a   Rizvi, Tahir A ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS MUTATION;

GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, FELINE; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 27144453978     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.21.13817-13821.2005     Document Type: Article

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