Highlights on distinctive structural and functional properties of HTLV Tax proteins

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Romanelli, Maria Grazia ^a   Diani, Erica ^a   Bergamo, Elisa ^a   Casoli, Claudio ^b   Ciminale, Vincenzo ^c   Bex, Françoise ^d   Bertazzoni, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b GEMIB Laboratory   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

HTLV; NF B; Signal transduction; Tax proteins

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TAX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION; VIRUS EXPRESSION;

DELTARETROVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-CELL LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS TYPE 4; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2;

EID: 84885396508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00271     Document Type: Review

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