A cis repression sequence adjacent to the transcription start site of the human cytomegalovirus US3 gene is required to down regulate gene expression at early and late times after infection

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 9575-9584

  Lashmit, Philip E ^a   Stinski, Mark F ^a   Murphy, Eain A ^a   Bullock, Grant C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DOWN REGULATION; ENHANCER REGION; FIBROBLAST; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MONOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT;

EID: 0031743366     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.12.9575-9584.1998     Document Type: Article

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