Lentiviral nuclear import: A complex interplay between virus and host

BioEssays

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 441-451

  De Rijck, Jan ^a   Vandekerckhove, Linos ^a   Christ, Frauke ^a   Debyser, Zeger ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENS EPITHELIUM DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN P75; VPR PROTEIN;

CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CYCLE; CELL TYPE; DNA SYNTHESIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; RETROVIRUS; REVIEW; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; LENTIVIRUS; RECEPTORS, VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 34248523295     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20561     Document Type: Review

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