Introducing point mutations into the ATGs of the putative open reading frames of the HSV-1 gene encoding the latency associated transcript (LAT) reduces its anti-apoptosis activity

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 98-102

  Carpenter, Dale ^a   Henderson, Gail ^b   Hsiang, Chinhui ^a   Osorio, Nelson ^a   BenMohamed, Lbachir ^c   Jones, Clinton ^b   Wechsler, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Herpes simplex virus; LAT; Latency; Latency associated transcript

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; LATENCY ASSOCIATED PEPTIDE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CELL LINE; CODON, INITIATOR; EXONS; GENES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; INTRONS; MICE; NEURONS; OPEN READING FRAMES; POINT MUTATION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 37349083113     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: 10961208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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