Efficient transcription from the rice tungro bacilliform virus promoter requires elements downstream of the transcription start site

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 8411-8421

  Chen, Gang ^a,c   Rothnie, Helen M ^a   He, Xiaoyuan ^a   Hohn, Thomas ^a   Fütterer, Johannes ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTOPLAST; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0029911068     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.12.8411-8421.1996     Document Type: Article

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