The UL84 protein of human cytomegalovirus acts as a transdominant inhibitor of immediate-early-mediated transactivation that is able to prevent viral replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 7048-7060

  Gebert, Susanne ^a   Schmolke, Susanne ^a   Sorg, Gabriele ^a   Flöss, Stefan ^a   Plachter, Bodo ^a,b   Stamminger, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSACTIVATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0030760254     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.9.7048-7060.1997     Document Type: Article

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