Cis-acting element located in the bovine foamy virus internal promoter possesses the properties of a transcriptional enhancer

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 1108-1112

  Qiao, Wentao ^a   Guo, Chunguang ^a   Wang, Shuhui ^a   Wang, Jinzhong ^a   Chen, Qimin ^a   Geng, Yunqi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bovine foamy virus (BFV); Enhancer; Internal promoter (IP); Tas responsive element (TRE)

Indexed keywords

BORF 1 PROTEIN; TAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPUMA VIRUS;

BOVINE FOAMY VIRUS; BOVINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS (TYPE 3 / STRAIN LK3); SIMIAN FOAMY VIRUS TYPE 1; SPUMAVIRUS;

EID: 20544440547     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/02tb9249     Document Type: Article

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