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RNA incorporation is critical for retroviral particle integrity after cell membrane assembly of Gag complexes.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 2002
Wang Shainn-Wei, Aldovini Anna
Abstract excerpt
The nucleocapsid (NC) domain of retroviruses plays a critical role in specific viral RNA packaging and virus assembly. RNA is thought to facilitate viral particle assembly, but the results described here with NC mutants indicate that it also plays a critical role in particle integrity. We investigated the assembly and integrity of particles produced by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 M1-2/BR mutant virus,...
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