Murine gammaherpesvirus 68 encodes tRNA-like sequences which are expressed during latency

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1675-1687

  Bowden, Rory J ^a,b   Simas, J Pedro ^a   Davis, Adam J ^b   Efstathiou, Stacey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMINAL CENTER; HERPES; HERPES VIRUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS LATENCY;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; EUKARYOTA; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; MURINAE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; POXVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030808292     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-7-1675     Document Type: Article

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