Latency-Associated Transcript (LAT) exon 1 controls herpes simplex virus species-specific phenotypes: Reactivation in the guinea pig genital model and neuron subtype-specific latent expression of LAT

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 10007-10015

  Bertke, Andrea S ^a   Patel, Amita ^a   Imai, Yumi ^b   Apakupakul, Kathleen ^b   Margolis, Todd P ^b   Krause, Philip R ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATENCY ASSOCIATED PEPTIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENITAL HERPES; GUINEA PIG; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; INTRON; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRUS REACTIVATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; EXONS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INTRONS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIMPLEXVIRUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VERO CELLS;

CAVIA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 2; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 70349419743     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00559-09     Document Type: Article

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