The stable 2.0-kilobase intron of the herpes simplex virus type 1 latency-associated transcript does not function as an antisense repressor of ICP0 in nonneuronal cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3516-3530

  Burton, Edward A ^a,b   Hong, Chang Sook ^a   Glorioso, Joseph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INTRON; LATENT PERIOD; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTRONS; RNA, ANTISENSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0037333380     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.6.3516-3530.2003     Document Type: Article

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