The retroviral Gag protein can be used to package recombinant proteins produced by mammalian cell cultures. Protein products can then be isolated easily from the recombinant virions.
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Wills, J. Retro-secretion of recombinant proteins. Nature 340, 323–324 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/340323a0
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