Human T-cell leukemia virus type 2 Tax mutants that selectively abrogate NFκB or CREB/ATF activation fail to transform primary human T cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2655-2662

  Ross, Ted M ^a,c   Narayan, Murli ^b   Fang, Zhi Yu ^a   Minella, Alex C ^a   Green, Patrick L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TAX PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCTS, TAX; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; NF-KAPPA B; PHENOTYPE; PROVIRUSES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0034007182     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.6.2655-2662.2000     Document Type: Article

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