Transcriptional control: Tat cofactors and transcriptional elongation

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 13, 1998, Pages

  Yankulov, Krassimir ^a   Bentley, David ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032543570     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70289-1     Document Type: Article

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