Retroviruses

Author(s)

• Coffin, John M.
• Hughes, Stephen H.
• Varmus, Harold

Bibliographic Information

Retroviruses

edited by John M. Coffin, Stephen H. Hughes, Harold E. Varmus

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c1997

• : hbk
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

For over 25 years the study of retroviruses has underpinned much of what is known about information transfer in cells and the genetic and biomechanisms that underlie cell growth and cancer induction. Emergent diseases such as AIDS and adult T-cell lymphona have widened even further the community of investigators directly concerned with retroviruses, a development that has highlighted the need for an integrated understanding of their biology and their unique association with host genomes. This volume aims to satisfy that need.

Table of Contents

• Historical introduction to the general properties of retroviruses
• retroviral viroins and genomes
• virus entry and receptors
• reverse transciptase and generation of retroviral DNA
• integration
• retroviral gene expression 1 - synthesis and processing of viral RNA
• retroviral gene expression 2 - synthesis, processing and assembly of viral proteins
• retrotransposons, endogenous retroviruses and the evolution of retroelements
• development and applications of retroviral vectors
• retroviral pathogenesis 1
• retroviral pathogenesis 2
• immunological and pharmacological approaches to the control of retroviral infections. Appendices: retroviral sequences
• viral genome organization and expression.

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Details

• NCID: BA34605720
• ISBN:
  • 0879694971
  • 0879694718
• LCCN: 97032263
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Plainview, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 843 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QR201.R47
  • DC21 : 579.2/569
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Retrovirus infections
  • LCSH : Retroviruses