Characterization of a nucleocapsid-like region and of two distinct primer tRNALys,2 binding sites in the endogenous retrovirus Gypsy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 5764-5777

  Gabus, Caroline ^a   Ivanyi Nagy, Roland ^a   Depollier, Julien ^b   Bucheton, Alain ^b   Pelisson, Alain ^b   Darlix, Jean Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAG PROTEIN; LYSINE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PRIMER RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETROVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; GAMMARETROVIRUS; HEXAPODA; MIRIDAE;

EID: 33845608055     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl722     Document Type: Article

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