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Cytotoxicity of a replication-defective mutant of herpes simplex virus type 1.
Journal of virology - 1 May 1992
Johnson P A, Miyanohara A, Levine F, Cahill T, Friedmann T
Abstract excerpt
Replication-defective mutants of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) may prove useful as vectors for gene transfer, particularly to nondividing cells. Cgal delta 3 is an immediate-early gene 3 (IE 3) deletion mutant of HSV-1 that expresses the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli from the human cytomegalovirus immediate-early control region but does not express viral early or late genes. This vector was able to...
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