Tax-1 and tax-2 similarities and differences: Focus on post-translational modifications and NF-κB activation

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Shirinian, Margret ^a   Kfoury, Youmna ^a   Dassouki, Zeina ^a   El Hajj, Hiba ^a   Bazarbachi, Ali ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

HTLV 1; HTLV 2; NF B; Tax 1; Tax 2

Indexed keywords

2 MORPHOLINO 8 PHENYLCHROMONE; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; I KAPPA B KINASE ALPHA; I KAPPA B KINASE BETA; I KAPPA B KINASE GAMMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE 3 KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE B INHIBITOR; PROTEIN P52; PROTEIN P53; TAX 1 PROTEIN; TAX2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELB; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOSKELETON; DNA DAMAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUMOYLATION; UBIQUITINATION;

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

EID: 84884274387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00231     Document Type: Review

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