Expression of the Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) group HML-2/HERV-K does not depend on canonical promoter elements but is regulated by transcription factors Sp1 and Sp3

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3436-3448

  Fuchs, Nina V ^a   Kraft, Martin ^a,b   Tondera, Christiane ^a   Hanschmann, Kay Martin ^a   Löwer, Johannes ^a   Löwer, Roswitha ^a  

^a PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b BAXTER INNOVATIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP3;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SP3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952586736     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02539-10     Document Type: Article

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