Role of the human homolog of the yeast transcription factor SPT5 in HIV-1 Tat-activation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 277, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-197

  Wu Baer, Foon ^a   Lane, William S ^b   Gaynor, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; RNA polymerase II; SPT5 and SPT6 proteins; Tat; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR; ETOPOSIDE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPT5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRAL GENETICS;

EID: 0032571254     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1601     Document Type: Article

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