KSHV Rta promoter specification and viral reactivation

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Guito, Jonathan ^a   Lukac, David M ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA binding; DNA protein interactions; Herpesvirus; KSHV; RBP JK; Reactivation; RTA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874746003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00030     Document Type: Article

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