Analysis of methylation patterns in the regulatory region of the latent Epstein-Barr virus promoter BCR2 by automated fluorescent genomic sequencing

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 417-422

  Takacs, Maria ^a   Myöhänen, Sanna ^b,d   Altiok, Ender ^c   Minarovits, Janos ^a  

^a National Institute of Hygiene Budapest   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c YediGen Biotech R D Serv SA   (Turkey)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burkitt's lymphoma; CBF1; CBF2; DNA methylation; Promoter usage; Viral latency

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0344835891     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1998.379.4-5.417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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