Cellular Repressor Inhibits Human Cytomegalovirus Transcription from the UL127 Promoter

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5113-5123

  Lashmit, Philip E ^a   Lundquist, Christopher A ^a   Meier, Jeffery L ^a,b   Stinski, Mark F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; CELL PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN FOXA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF HAIRY WING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; FIBROBLAST; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2342470782     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.10.5113-5123.2004     Document Type: Article

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