Functional Activity of HERV-K-T47D-Related Long Terminal Repeats
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Proviral structure, chromosomal location, and expression of HERV-K-T47D, a novel human endogenous retrovirus derived from T47D particles.
We previously described that type B retrovirus-like particles released from the human mammary carcinoma cell line T47D are pseudotypes and package retroviral RNA of different origins (W. Seifarth, H. Skladny, F. Krieg-Schneider, A. Reichert, R. Hehlmann, and C. Leib-Mösch, J. Virol. 69:6408-6416, 1995). One preferentially packaged retroviral sequence, ERV-MLN, has now been used to isolate the c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Virology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0042-6822
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.0898