The UL97 gene product of human cytomegalovirus is an early-late protein with a nuclear localization but is not a nucleoside kinase

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 6340-6346

  Michel, Detlef ^a   Pavić, Ivica ^a   Zimmermann, Albert ^a   Haupt, Edith ^a   Wunderlich, Kirsten ^a   Heuschmid, Maria ^a   Mertens, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0029841220     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.9.6340-6346.1996     Document Type: Article

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