A new role for HIV nucleocapsid protein in modulating the specificity of plus strand priming

Virology

Volumn 378, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 385-396

  Jacob, Deena T ^a   DeStefano, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaperone protein; HIV; Nucleocapsid protein; Plus strand priming; Polypurine tract; Retrovirus; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE H; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HIV-1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 49049113020     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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