At least 50% of human-specific HERV-K (HML-2) long terminal repeats serve in vivo as active promoters for host nonrepetitive DNA transcription

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 10752-10762

  Buzdin, Anton ^a   Kovalskaya Alexandrova, Elena ^a   Gogvadze, Elena ^a   Sverdlov, Eugene ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GERM LINE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROVIRUS; RETROVIRUS; SEMINOMA; TECHNIQUE; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEMINOMA; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33750356627     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00871-06     Document Type: Article

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