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This Week in PNAS

Oct 26, 2010

In the PNAS Early Edition this week, researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the National Cancer Institute describe how, through their investigation of the structure of murine leukemia virus RNA, they identified a "high-affinity Gag recognition structure" that mediates the packaging of the retroviral genome.

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