Inhibition of human cytomegalovirus DNA polymerase by C-terminal peptides from the UL54 subunit

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 8336-8344

  Loregian, Arianna ^a   Rigatti, Roberto ^a   Murphy, Mary ^b   Schievano, Elisabetta ^a   Palu, Giorgio ^a   Marsden, Howard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA POLYMERASE; LEUCYLPROLYLARGINYLARGINYLLEUCYLHISTIDYLLEUCYLGLUTAMYLPROLYLALANYLPHENYLALA NYLLEUCYLTHREONYLTYROSYLSERYLVALYLLYSYLALANYLHISTIDYLGLUTAMYLCYSTEINYLCYSTEINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; POL PROTEIN; UL44 PROTEIN; UL54 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS INHIBITION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPODOPTERA; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037770337     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.15.8336-8344.2003     Document Type: Article

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