Rat cytomegalovirus major immediate-early enhancer switching results in altered growth characteristics

Journal of Virology

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 5076-5083

  Sandford, Gordon R ^a,b   Brock, Lorine E ^a   Voigt, Sebastian ^a   Forester, Craig M ^a   Burns, William H ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MFRC 6033 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; MAJOR IMMEDIATE EARLY ENHANCER PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLEEN; TISSUE CULTURE; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MICE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0035026047     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.11.5076-5083.2001     Document Type: Article

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