The de novo methyltransferases DNMT3a and DNMT3b target the murine gammaherpesvirus immediate-early gene 50 promoter during establishment of latency

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 4946-4959

  Gray, Kathleen S ^a   Forrest, J Craig ^a,b   Speck, Samuel H ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES VIRUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPLEEN; VIRUS INTEGRATION; VIRUS LATENCY;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 77951456833     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00060-10     Document Type: Article

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