Dimerization and a novel tax speckled structure localization signal are required for tax nuclear localization

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5339-5352

  Fryrear, Kimberly A ^a   Durkin, Sarah S ^a   Gupta, Saurabh K ^a   Tiedebohl, Jessica B ^a   Semmes, O John ^a,b  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Lewis Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; TAX PROTEIN; TAX PROTEIN, HUMAN T LYMPHOTROPHIC VIRUS 1; TAX PROTEIN, HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPHIC VIRUS 1;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNAL; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1;

CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE DELETION; GENE PRODUCTS, TAX; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR EXPORT SIGNALS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 66149094306     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00232-09     Document Type: Article

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