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).
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
- 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)