The Mechanism of Budding of Retroviruses from Cell Membranes

Retroviruses have evolved a mechanism for the release of particles from the cell membrane that appropriates cellular protein complexes, referred to as ESCRT-I, -II, -III, normally involved in the biogenesis of multivesicular bodies. Three different classes of late assembly (L) domains encoded in Ga...

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Main Authors: Andrew Pincetic, Jonathan Leis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Advances in Virology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/623969