Anti-apoptotic function of a microRNA encoded by the HSV-1 latency-associated transcript

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7098, 2006, Pages 82-85

  Gupta, A ^a   Gartner, J J ^a   Sethupathy, P ^a   Hatzigeorgiou, A G ^a   Fraser, N W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEUROLOGY; VIRUSES;

GENE FRAGMENTS; NEUROBLASTOMA CELLS; NUCLEOTIDE FRAGMENT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR (TGF);

RNA;

MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

APOPTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; RNA; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 33746018653     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04836     Document Type: Article

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