Structural and functional studies of an IRF-7-like gene from Atlantic salmon

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-27

  Kileng, Øyvind ^a   Bergan, Veronica ^a   Workenhe, Samuel Tekeste ^a   Robertsen, Børre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic salmon; Infectious salmon anemia virus; Interferon regulatory factor 7; Interferon ; Signal transducer and activator of transcription 1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 7; MESSENGER RNA; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; STAT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRF 7 LIKE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

INFECTIOUS SALMON ANEMIA VIRUS; MAMMALIA; SALMO SALAR; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR-7; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERFERONS; ISAVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLY I-C; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALMO SALAR; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 53849101374     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2008.07.020     Document Type: Article

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