Functional human endogenous retroviral LTR transcription start sites are located between the R and U5 regions

Virology

Volumn 346, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 373-378

  Kovalskaya, Elena ^a   Buzdin, Anton ^a   Gogvadze, Elena ^a   Vinogradova, Tatyana ^a   Sverdlov, Eugene ^a  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Endogenous retrovirus; HERV K (HML 2); Long terminal repeat; LTR; Promoter; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROVIRUS; RNA ISOLATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES;

EID: 33644828413     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.11.007     Document Type: Article

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