Article
Genetic selection for balanced retroviral splicing: novel regulation involving the second step can be mediated by transitions in the polypyrimidine tract.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 May 1995
Bouck J, Fu X D, Skalka A M, Katz R A
Abstract excerpt
Incomplete splicing is essential for retroviral replication; and in simple retroviruses, splicing regulation appears to occur entirely in cis. Our previous studies, using avian sarcoma virus, indicated that weak splicing signals allow transcripts to escape the splicing pathway. We also isolated a...
Topics
- Animals
- Avian Sarcoma Viruses
- Base Sequence
- Cells, Cultured
- Chick Embryo
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Genes, Suppressor
- Genes, env
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Quail
- RNA Splicing
