A strong negative transcriptional regulatory region between the human cytomegalovirus UL127 gene and the major immediate-early enhancer

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 9039-9052

  Lundquist, Christopher A ^a   Meier, Jeffrey L ^a   Stinski, Mark F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; FIBROBLAST; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0032853356     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.11.9039-9052.1999     Document Type: Article

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