Identification of a novel 0.7-kb polyadenylated transcript in the LAT promoter region of HSV-1 that is strain specific and may contribute to virulence

Virology

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 296-307

  Zhu, Jia ^a   Kang, Wen ^a   Marquart, Mary E ^b   Hill, James M ^b   Zheng, Xiaodong ^b   Block, Timothy M ^c   Fraser, Nigel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b LSU EYE CENTER   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYADENYLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RABBIT; RNA ANALYSIS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HERPES; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0033590194     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.0057     Document Type: Article

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