Disruption of the 5' and 3' splice sites flanking the major latency-associated transcripts of herpes simplex virus type 1: Evidence for alternate splicing in lytic and latent infections

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 107-116

  Arthur, Jane L ^a   Everett, Roger ^b   Brierley, Ian ^a   Efstathiou, Stacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOLYSIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LATENT VIRUS INFECTION; MOUSE; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 0031963623     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-79-1-107     Document Type: Article

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