The putative zinc finger of the human cytomegalovirus IE2 86-kilodalton protein is dispensable for DNA binding and autorepression, thereby demarcating a concise core domain in the C terminus of the protein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 11853-11864

  Asmar, Jasmin ^a   Wiebusch, Lüder ^a   Truss, Matthias ^a   Hagemeier, Christian ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; DNA; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 6344228442     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.21.11853-11864.2004     Document Type: Article

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