DA-complex assembly activity required for VP16C transcriptional activation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 4023-4031

  Kobayashi, Naoko ^a   Horn, Peter J ^b   Sullivan, Susan M ^b   Triezenberg, Steven J ^b   Boyer, Thomas G ^a   Berk, Arnold J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSACTIVATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA VIRUSES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031834337     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.7.4023     Document Type: Article

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