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Science 30 March 1973:
Vol. 179. no. 4080, pp. 1328 - 1330
DOI: 10.1126/science.179.4080.1328
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Polyadenylic Acid in Visna Virus RNA

D. Gillespie 1, K. Takemoto 2, M. Robert 3, and R. C. Gallo 3

1 Litton Bionetics, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland 20014
2 Laboratory of Viral Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda 20014
3 Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda 20014

Visna virus 70S RNA contains long stretches of polyadenylic acid [poly(A)]. The homogeneity in length of poly(4) regions is observed in 70S RNA from visna virus and all RNA tumor viruses tested, and not with other types of RNA. By this criterion visna virus resembles RNA tumor viruses.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
RNA processing and RNA tumor virus origin and evolution.
D Gillespie and R. Gallo (1975)
Science 188, 802-811
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