Analysis of transcriptional regulatory sequences in the human endogenous retrovirus W long terminal repeat

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2229-2235

  Lee, Woo Jung ^a   Kwun, Hyun Jin ^a   Jang, Kyung Lib ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILENCER GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HELA CELLS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS W; RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0043169492     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19076-0     Document Type: Article

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