Analysis of the varicella-zoster virus IE62 N-terminal acidic transactivating domain and its interaction with the human mediator complex

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 6300-6305

  Yamamoto, Shinobu ^a   Eletsky, Alexander ^b,c   Szyperski, Thomas ^b,c   Hay, John ^a   Ruyechan, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN IE62; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IE62 PROTEIN, HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; MED25 PROTEIN, HUMAN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 66149113985     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00054-09     Document Type: Article

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