Intracellular localization and cellular factors interaction of HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 tax proteins: Similarities and functional differences

Viruses

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2021, Pages 541-560

  Bertazzoni, Umberto ^a   Turci, Marco ^a   Avesani, Francesca ^a   Di gennaro, Gianfranco ^a   Bidoia, Carlo ^b   Romanelli, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cellular localization; Htlv; Nf ?b; Pdz binding motif open access; Post translational modifications; Signal transduction; Tax 1; Tax 2

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TAX 1 PROTEIN; TAX 2 PROTEIN; TAX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ASTROCYTOMA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; DIMERIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUMOYLATION; TRANSACTIVATION; UBIQUITINATION;

HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2;

EID: 79957831745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v3050541     Document Type: Review

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