Foamy virus Pol protein expressed as a Gag - Pol fusion retains 1 enzymatic activities allowing infectious virus production 2 3 4
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Foamy virus Pol protein expressed as a Gag-Pol fusion retains 1 enzymatic activities allowing infectious virus production 2 3 4 Eun-Gyung Lee, Amber Sinicrope, Dana L. Jackson, Shuyuarn F. Yu, and Maxine L. 5 Linial* 6 Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109 7 8 9 10 Running title: Foamy virus Gag-Pol fusion protein 11 Word count: 145 for abstract and 5634 for text 12 13 *Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson 14 Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109-1024. Phone: (206) 15 667-4442. Fax: (206) 667-5939. Email: [email protected] 16 Present address: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, 17 [email protected] 18 Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.06979-11 JVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 4 April 2012
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