Foamy virus gag p71-p68 cleavage is required for template switch of the reverse transcriptase

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7774-7776

  Spannaus, Ralf ^a   Schneider, Anna ^b   Hartl, Maximilian J ^b   Wöhrl, Birgitta M ^b   Bodem, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAG PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN P3; PROTEIN P68; PROTEIN P71; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROUP SPECIFIC ANTIGEN GENE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPUMA VIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SPUMAVIRUS;

EID: 84880837745     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00833-13     Document Type: Article

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