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p12 tethers the murine leukemia virus pre-integration complex to mitotic chromosomes.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Dec 2012
Elis Efrat, Ehrlich Marcelo, Prizan-Ravid Adi, Laham-Karam Nihay, Bacharach Eran
Abstract excerpt
The p12 protein of the murine leukemia virus (MLV) is a constituent of the pre-integration complex (PIC) but its function in this complex remains unknown. We developed an imaging system to monitor MLV PIC trafficking in live cells. This allowed the visualization of PIC docking to mitotic chromosomes and its release upon exit from mitosis. Docking occurred concomitantly with nuclear envelope breakdown and was...
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