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Herpesviral latency-associated transcript gene promotes assembly of heterochromatin on viral lytic-gene promoters in latent infection
24 Oct 2005
Abstract excerpt
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) persists in its human host and evades the immune response by undergoing a latent infection in sensory neurons, from which it can reactivate periodically. HSV expresses >80 gene products during productive ("lytic") infection, but only the latency-associated transcript (LAT) gene is expressed at abundant levels during latent infection. The LAT gene has been shown to repress lytic-gene...
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