The IE2 60-kilodalton and 40-kilodalton proteins are dispensable for human cytomegalovirus replication but are required for efficient delayed early and late gene expression and production of infectious virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2573-2583

  White, Elizabeth A ^a   Del Rosario, Christia J ^a   Sanders, Rebecca L ^a   Spector, Deborah H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN IE2 40; PROTEIN IE2 60; PROTEIN PP65; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DISEASE COURSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IE2 GENE; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UL83 GENE; UL84 GENE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5;

EID: 33947400650     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02454-06     Document Type: Article

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