Instability of retroviral vectors with HIV-1-specific RT aptamers due to cryptic splice sites in the U6 promoter

AIDS Research and Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Braun, Stephen E ^a   Shi, Xuanling ^b   Qiu, Gang ^a   Wong, Fay Eng ^a   Joshi, Pheroze J ^b,c   Prasad, Vinayaka R ^b   Johnson, R Paul ^a,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 38549129316     PISSN: 17426405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-6405-4-24     Document Type: Article

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