Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8 transcriptional activator Rta is an oligomeric DNA-binding protein that interacts with tandem arrays of phased A/T-trinucleotide motifs

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 9399-9411

  Liao, Wei ^a   Tang, Yong ^a   Kuo, Yu liang ^a   Liu, Bao Ying ^a   Xu, Chi Jie ^a   Giam, Chou Zen ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN RTA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TRANSACTIVATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0042890398     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.17.9399-9411.2003     Document Type: Article

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