Article
Proteolytic cleavage at the Gag-Pol junction in avian leukosis virus: differences in vitro and in vivo.
Virology - 1 Oct 1994
Stewart L, Vogt V M
Abstract excerpt
In avian leukosis virus, processing by the viral protease (PR) appears to activate reverse transcriptase (RT), since PR-defective virions have extremely feeble reverse transcriptase activity. We showed previously that when such detergent-treated virions are digested in vitro with PR, the Gag precursor is completely and properly matured, but the Gag-Pol precursor is not. In particular, the junction between Gag and...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Avian Leukosis Virus
- Baculoviridae
- Base Sequence
- Cell Line
- Endopeptidases
- Fusion Proteins, gag-pol
- Leucine Zippers
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
