Disruption of gammaherpesvirus 68 gene 50 demonstrates that Rta is essential for virus replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 5731-5739

  Pavlova, Iglika V ^a,b   Virgin IV, Herbert W ^b   Speck, Samuel H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DNA REPLICATION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GAMMAHERPESVIRUS 68; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HERPES VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SPLICING; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; GAMMAHERPESVIRINAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0037695160     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.10.5731-5739.2003     Document Type: Article

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