Betaretroviral envelope subunits are noncovalently associated and restricted to the mammalian class

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1937-1946

  Henzy, Jamie E ^a,b   Coffin, John M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ENVELOPE GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAAGSIEKTE SHEEP RETROVIRUS; LENTIVIRINAE; MOUSE; MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR ONCOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS K; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; JAAGSIEKTE SHEEP RETROVIRUS; MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS, MOUSE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84873862529     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01442-12     Document Type: Article

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