Possible Model for Viral Gene Expression in Permissive Cells

Possible Model for Viral Gene Expression in Permissive Cells

Contributor(s):
University of California, San Francisco. Archives and Special Collections. Harold E. Varmus Papers
UCSF
Publication:
Produced: [1978]
Language(s):
English
Format:
Still image
Subject(s):
Avian Sarcoma Viruses
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Slides (photographs)
Charts (graphic documents)
Abstract:
This schematic drawing pictures how the genes of a transforming (cancer-causing) virus may be read, or expressed, by the infected cell's genetic machinery. The machinery includes messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein-producing structures called ribosomes. The cell depicted here is permissive, meaning a type or species of cell in which a cancer-causing virus not only triggers synthesis of a transforming protein--a protein that stimulates expression of genes controlling cell division, leading to cancerous growth--but in which the virus can replicate and from which new, complete and infectious virus particles are released (virions).
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Extent:
1 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584926X125 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
MVBBJG
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X125
Archival Collection:
The Harold Varmus Papers (Profiles in Science)