Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the human endogenous retrovirus K113

Virology

Volumn 371, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 216-225

  Beimforde, Nadine ^a,b   Hanke, Kirsten ^a   Ammar, Ismahen ^a   Kurth, Reinhard ^a   Bannert, Norbert ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Envelope; HERV K; Human endogenous retrovirus; Polymorphism; Rec; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTEINASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K113; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; RNA SPLICING; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROVIRUSES; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS;

EID: 37849043440     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.09.036     Document Type: Article

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