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Nucleocapsid-RNA interactions are essential to structural stability but not to assembly of retroviruses.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2004
Wang Shainn-Wei, Noonan Kristin, Aldovini Anna
Abstract excerpt
The process of RNA incorporation into nascent virions is thought to be critical for efficient retroviral particle assembly and production. Here we show that human immunodeficiency virus type 1 mutant particles (which are highly unstable and break down soon after release from the cell) lacking nucleocapsid (NC) core protein-mediated RNA incorporation are produced efficiently and can be recovered at the normal...
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