Induction of the transcription factor Sp1 during human cytomegalovirus infection mediates upregulation of the p65 and p105/p50 NF-κB promoters

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 4638-4648

  Yurochko, Andrew D ^a   Mayo, Marty W ^a   Poma, Eric E ^a,b   Baldwin Jr, Albert S ^a,b   Huang, Eng Shang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 0030947410     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.6.4638-4648.1997     Document Type: Article

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