Sequences just upstream of the simian immunodeficiency virus core enhancer allow efficient replication in the absence of NF-κB and Sp1 binding elements

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 5589-5598

  Pöhlmann, Stefan ^a   Flöss, Stefan ^a   Ilyinskii, Petr O ^b   Stamminger, Thomas ^a   Kirchhoff, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; NEF PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 2642594069     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.7.5589-5598.1998     Document Type: Article

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