Genetic content and preliminary transcriptional analysis of a representative region of murine gammaherpesvirus 68

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1425-1433

  Mackett, Mike ^a   Stewart, James P ^a,b   Pepper, Stuart De V ^a   Chee, Mark ^c   Efstathiou, Stacey ^c   Nash, Anthony A ^b   Arrand, John R ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; HERPES VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0030928382     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-6-1425     Document Type: Article

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