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A gammaherpesvirus 68 gene 50 null mutant establishes long-term latency in the lung but fails to vaccinate against a wild-type virus challenge.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2006
Moser Janice M, Farrell Michael L, Krug Laurie T, Upton Jason W, Speck Samuel H
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The gammaherpesvirus immediate-early genes are critical regulators of virus replication and reactivation from latency. Rta, encoded by gene 50, serves as the major transactivator of the lytic program and is highly conserved among all the gammaherpesviruses, including Epstein-Barr virus, Kaposi's...
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