Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus/human herpesvirus 8 ORF50/Rta lytic switch protein functions as a tetramer

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5788-5806

  Bu, Wei ^a   Carroll, Kyla Driscoll ^a   Palmeri, Diana ^a   Lukac, David M ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ICPH E350C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; LEUCINE; PROLINE; RTA PROTEIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROLINE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8;

EID: 34249826369     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00140-07     Document Type: Article

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