Murine cytomegalovirus major immediate-early enhancer region operating as a genetic switch in bidirectional gene pair transcription

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 7805-7810

  Simon, Christian O ^a   Kühnapfel, Birgit ^a   Reddehase, Matthias J ^a   Grzimek, Natascha K A ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MURID HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 34447257655     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02388-06     Document Type: Article

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