Viral Enhancer Mimicry of Host Innate-Immune Promoters

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kropp, Kai A ^a,c   Angulo, Ana ^b   Ghazal, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Department of Chemistry   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS 5; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 18; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; GENES, VIRAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84895747639     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003804     Document Type: Article

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