Inactivation of the very strong HCMV immediate early promoter by DMA CpG methylation in Vitro

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 377, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-201

  Prösen, Susanna ^a   Stein, Joachim ^a   Staak, Kerstin ^a   Liebenthal, Christa ^a   Volk, Hans Dieter ^a   Krüger, Detlev H ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Methyl CPG binding protein; Methyltransferase SSSL; Monocytic cells; TNF alpha; Transcription factors; Viral latency

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPIROPLASMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS GENE;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030010409     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.3.195     Document Type: Article

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