The Discovery of Reverse Transcriptase

Annual Review of Virology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-51

  Coffin, John M ^a   Fan, Hung ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

David Baltimore; HIV; Howard Temin; Murine leukemia virus; Retrovirus; RNA tumor virus; Rous sarcoma virus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ASSAY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRIDAE; REVIEW; RNA TUMOR VIRUS; ROUS SARCOMA VIRUS; VESICULOVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS REPLICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ONCOGENES; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84992154540     PISSN: 2327056X     EISSN: 23270578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-virology-110615-035556     Document Type: Review

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