Structural basis for packaging the dimeric genome of Moloney murine leukaemia virus

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7008, 2004, Pages 586-590

  D'Souza, Victoria ^a   Summers, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMERIZATION; PROTEINS; RNA; ZINC;

DIMERIC GENOMES; PROTEIN BINDING;

GENES;

GAG PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA; GUANOSINE;

MEDICINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; DIPLOIDY; DNA PACKAGING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETROVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS GENOME; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; MURINAE; ONCOVIRINAE; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENOME, VIRAL; GUANOSINE; KINETICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOCAPSID; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 4944256277     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02944     Document Type: Article

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