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Specific Histone Tail Modification and Not DNA Methylation Is a Determinant of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Latent Gene Expression
13 Jan 2004
Abstract excerpt
During herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latency, gene expression is tightly repressed except for the latency-associated transcript (LAT). The mechanistic basis for this repression is unknown, but its global nature suggests regulation by an epigenetic mechanism such as DNA methylation. Previous work demonstrated that latent HSV-1 genomes are not extensively methylated, but these studies lacked the resolution to...
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