Foamy Viruses /
The aberrant replication pathway of foamy viruses distinguishes them from all other retroviruses. Many details have been accumulated over the past ten or so years. Most of the findings on foamy viruses were obtained by research on a single virus isolate previously called "human foamy virus"...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer,
2003.
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| Series: | Current topics in microbiology and immunology ;
277. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The replication strategy of foamy viruses
- Foamy virus transactivation and gene expression
- Proteolytic processing of foamy virus gag and pol proteins
- Particle assembly and genome packaging
- The foamy virus envelope glycoproteins
- Foamy virus vectors
- Replication of primate foamy viruses in natural and experimental hosts
- Human infection with foamy viruses
- Non-primate foamy viruses
- Subject index.