Amino-terminal region of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 nucleocapsid is required for human APOBEC3G packaging

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 11841-11852

  Luo, Kun ^a   Liu, Bindong ^a   Xiao, Zuoxiang ^a,c   Yu, Yunkai ^a   Yu, Xianghui ^a,d   Gorelick, Robert ^b   Yu, Xiao Fang ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GAG PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DENSITY; DNA PACKAGING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEDIMENTATION; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SUCROSE GRADIENT; VELOCITY; VIRION; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUSION PROTEINS, GAG-POL; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HIV-1; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID; NUCLEOSIDE DEAMINASES; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 6344294123     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.21.11841-11852.2004     Document Type: Article

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