HIV‐1 protein Vpr causes gross mitochondrial dysfunction in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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- 30 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 410 (2-3) , 145-149
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00542-5
Abstract
The biological effects of the HIV‐1 accessory protein, Vpr, have been studied in yeast expression systems. In our previous study [1], employing the pCUP1‐vpr copper‐inducible expression cassette, Vpr...Keywords
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