Synergism between the components of the bipartite major immediate-early transcriptional enhancer of murine cytomegalovirus does not accelerate virus replication in cell culture and host tissues

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2395-2401

  Kropp, Kai A ^a   Simon, Christian O ^a,b   Fink, Annette ^a   Renzaho, Angélique ^a   Kühnapfel, Birgit ^a   Podlech, Jürgen ^a   Reddehase, Matthias J ^a   Grzimek, Natascha K A ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Roche Diagnostics Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEINS, CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS, CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENHANCER REGION; FIBROBLAST; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

MURID HERPESVIRUS 1;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, VIRAL; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 70350513586     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.012245-0     Document Type: Article

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