The simian foamy virus type 1 transcriptional transactivator (Tas) binds and activates an enhancer element in the gag gene

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 6847-6855

  Campbell, Mel ^a   Eng, Celeste ^a   Luciw, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROVIRUS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX; TRANSACTIVATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0029843060     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.10.6847-6855.1996     Document Type: Article

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