Publication Date:
1982-05-21
Description:
Retroviruses have proved to be useful reagents for studying genetic and epigenetic (such as regulatory) changes in eukaryotic cells, for assessing functional and structural relationships between transposable genetic elements, for inducing insertional mutations, including some important in oncogenesis, and for transporting genes into eukaryotic cells, either after natural transduction of putative cellular oncogenes or after experimental construction of recombinant viruses. Many of these properties of retroviruses depend on their capacity to establish a DNA (proviral) form of their RNA genomes as a stable component of host chromosomes, in either somatic or germinal cells.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Varmus, H E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 May 21;216(4548):812-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6177038" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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DNA Transposable Elements
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DNA, Viral/biosynthesis/genetics
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Gene Expression Regulation
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Genes, Viral
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Genetic Vectors
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Mutation
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RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/metabolism
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Recombination, Genetic
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Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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Retroviridae/*physiology
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Transcription, Genetic
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Virus Replication
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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