Retroviral Proteases, Volume 241 (Methods in Enzymology)
Contributors: John N. Abelson (Editor); Melvin I. Simon (Editor); Lawrence C. Kuo (Editor); Jules A. Shafer (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 22, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780121821425
Subjects: Enzymology; Scientific equipment & techniques, laboratory equipment; Virology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Biology - Molecular Biology; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology; Science / Biology; Infectious Diseases
First sentence: Although animal retroviral proteases were the first to be characterized with respect to their activity and their primary structure, the protease encoded by the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was the first retroviral protease to be cloned and expressed in recombinant hosts.