Strain variations in single amino acids of the 86-kilodalton human cytomegalovirus major immediate-early protein (IE2) affect its functional and biochemical properties: Implications of dynamic protein conformation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4760-4772

  Barrasa, M Inmaculada ^a   Harel, Noam ^a   Yu, Yongjun ^a   Alwine, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHOSPHOPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN K455E; PROTEIN M242I; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS STRAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037383491     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.8.4760-4772.2003     Document Type: Article

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