Functional analysis of HIV-1 subtypes B and C HIV-1 Tat exons and RGD/QGD motifs with respect to Tat-mediated transactivation and apoptosis

AIDS

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1683-1685

  Sood, Vikas ^a   Ranjan, Rajesh ^a   Banerjea, Akhil C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INDIA; LETTER; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSACTIVATION; WILD TYPE; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE;

APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENES, TAT; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; LYMPHOCYTES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 52249097412     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f56114     Document Type: Letter

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