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Vaccinia virus intermediate and late promoter elements are targeted by the TATA-binding protein.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 2006
Knutson Bruce A, Liu Xu, Oh Jaewook, Broyles Steven S
Abstract excerpt
Vaccinia virus replicates in the cytoplasm of the host cell and encodes its own RNA polymerase and transcription factors. The proteins that target the poxvirus RNA polymerase to intermediate- and late-class promoters have not been identified. In this study, representatives of the intermediate and late promoters were characterized at the nucleotide level to identify essential motifs. Both intermediate and late...
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